The Patrick M. Butler Charitable Fund's website is built using the Concrete 5 content managment system and with vaild XHTML & CSS

Visit www.patrickmbutler.org

The Patrick M. Butler Charitable Fund is an organization named for Pat Butler, Managing Partner of Nutter, McClennen and Fish’s Hyannis branch, who died on New Years day 2009.

The site is designed to be simple and easy to navigate. Since it will be run by a committee, it also had to be easy to update. As such, I chose to go with the Concrete 5content management system. C5 features in line editing making the editing process incredibly simply, just point, click and edit.

The site also features the latest search engine optimization techniques and pure CSS drop down menu.

I absolutely love Stumble Upon. I mean it’s such a simple yet wonderful concept. Press a button and you are wisked away to some new and exciting website. It’s the magical wand of the web world. I wish I had such a button when I was a kid, press a button and get wisked away into some magical fantasyland full of fun and adventure… ok, I’ll be honest, I wish I had one now. Who doesn’t love adventuring into the unknown?

But that is me as an internet user. As a web designer and site owner, I have some reservations about Stumble.

Digg is great. It lets people find the really great content that they want. It’s broken into categories and you get a little preview of it before you click through. With Stumble, not so much. You are in fact, stumbling around the web.

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Recently, I start a blog focusing on politics called Political College Student. Since I love WordPress so much, I of course decided to use the latest copy of WordPress, 2.7, on this blog. How can I not? With a cool new design, automatic upgrade and installation of plugins and the best tagging system I have seen, WordPress 2.7 is a huge improvement over WordPress 2.6.

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Yesterday, the official White House website, www.whitehouse.gov, went live with it’s brand new design. The design is similar to Obama’s campaign site (www.barackobama.com) and his transition site (www.change.gov). And I must admit, I absolutely love his branding and site design team.

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Dave’s Grunge theme is based on the design for this site. It’s a red and blue theme that works best for a blog with several pages. It supports many pages and sub pages with drop down menus for those sub pages.

The theme has one sidebar as well as a footer area that can be edited via the sidebar admin menu. The theme has custom styles for block quotes, unordered lists and headings.

Download Dave’s Grunge Here

Versions

1.0 – Initial release.

Political College Student is my new blog focusing on political commentary from a college students perspective.

Visit www.politicalcollegestudent.com

Political College Student is a blog focused on politics and political commentary from a college student’s perspective. The site is a personal project of mine. A place for me to share my thoughts on the political world.

The site is run by WordPress and uses valid XHTML and CSS. I designed the site from the logo to the code to the content structure. The site also implements the highest level of search engine optimization.

In addition, both Google Analytics, to track visitors, and Google AdSense, to generate revenue, are implemented on the site.

I was asked the other day by a friend who works for a pretty big nonprofit (you can probably guess which one if you know me, or look at the sidebar) what social networking sites the nonprofit should focus on? My first instinct was to tell him the big three Facebook, Myspace and YouTube. The organization focuses mostly on young people so those seemed natural.

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ChasePickering.com is a website designed to be a place for Chase Pickering to talk about the projects he is involved with.

Visit www.chasepickering.com

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If dog is man’s best friend then Google is webmaster’s best friend.

Let’s face it, Google is pretty much the best site on the web. It provides incredibly useful results quickly and in a clean design. However, Google’s search engine is only one of the every growing list of free products. Here are the top five for webmasters and website owners.

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Building a website used to be easy. It was just a series of files that were linked to one another. Not so much anymore. If you have a static website without things like a blog or news sections, an RSS feed, commenting, searching or some way for the user to get involved then you are very out of date. You are web 1.0.

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