Journal
BadCat relaunches Vascular Disease Foundation website
Vascular Disease Foundation has been educating the public and professionals and advocating on vascular health for over ten years. Founded in 1998 by Dennis Newman, VDF has grown into a large network of companies, patients, partners and professionals dedicated to providing information about Vascular Disease. The Vascular Disease Foundation has two sister organizations, the Peripheral Artery Disease Coalition (PAD Coalition) and the Venous Disease Coalition (VDC). These three organizations maintain an invaluable web presence but recently realized a need for a better way to manage their content. (more…)
Didi’s Chocolates – eCommerce site
Well-known pastry chef and chocolatier, Dorothy Mercier, approached us to create an ecommerce site for her business, Didi’s Chocolates.
Until this point, Didi’s Chocolates has been a small business that sells their chocolate confections to local Bucks County gourmet grocers. Recently Didi decided to expand. An e-commerce site was the next logical step for her business. An online store would create an uncomplicated and dynamic forum to reach more people and to sell her handmade chocolate bars, squares, ganache, barks, cordials, cookies, cakes and tarts.
New eCommerce Magento relaunch – MapResources.com
Project URL: http://www.mapresources.com
We recently completed a new content managed site for MapResources using Magento to create their new custom store.
Map Resources, in Lambertville, NJ is an online, digital vector map retailer with over 4,000 downloadable products and nearly 300 pages of content. They sell editable, vector, multi-layer, city, US state maps, country, continent and world maps for print, multimedia and web graphics applications, compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms. (more…)
TimThumb – PHP Image Resizer for WordPress
A while back we were asked to redesign OldeHope.com, a site dealing with Antiques, Americana and Folk Art. (We considered the excellent ExpressionEngine, but ultimately chose WordPress as it was easier for the client to “digest” the back end administration.)
After settling on some required plugins to handle the specific needs of the site. We knew we needed something smart and bullet-proof to allow our client to upload and reuse images throughout the site.
Enter TimThumb. TimThumb is a PHP image resizer script, not only for WordPress – but for general PHP based website use as well. It’s been super easy to allow the client to simply upload the image in one location on the WordPress Custom Post form we created, and then have that same image instantly resized, cropped and proportionally (or not) available for use everywhere else on the site with no further intervention.
TimThumb – It’s our another one of our secret weapons of web design and development.
Thanks to Ben Gillbanks, Darren Hoyt and Tim :)
WordCamp NYC 2009
I’ll be in The Big Apple on Nov 15 hangin’ with the other WP folks. Visit http://2009.newyork.wordcamp.org/
*See ya there – DM me on twitter.com/badcat*