Web development | Web Development with Invisible Window

If you build it, will they come?

December 11, 2009

When I first started developing web-sites, the internet as we know it today didn’t exist. There wasn’t a Google, no one had ever Twittered a Tweet, Facebook and Craigslist weren’t yet even an idea. Yahoo! existed but all you had to do was fill out a form to submit your site to it and there [...]

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Maintain search indexes when re-developing a site.

November 16, 2009

Often times when sites are being re-developed URL’s change. A page that previously read as www.sitename.com/about.html on the new site may be www.sitename.com/about-us/. For a human user interacting with the site, this is seldom an issue (aside from the occasional bookmark that needs to be updated) but for a search engine, this can be problematic. [...]

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Wordcamp Denver

February 28, 2009

Today I had the privilege of attending Wordcamp Denver today at the Denver Art Museum, a conference put on by Automatic “…created for enthusiasts, users, developers, designers, and fans of WordPress in the Denver/Boulder area.” It would be a mild understatement to say that the amount of knowledge dissipated today was colossal. I can not wait [...]

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Wordpress 2.7

November 20, 2008

Wordpress 2.7 is set to release soon. We’ve installed the beta version on some test blogs and we’re blown away by the new interface and features. Here are some screengrabs to check out.

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New Site Designs Launches

September 19, 2008

After a few months of our site needing to be updated, we’re pleased to announce a new look and feel. Please look around and let us know what you think.

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Cool Climate Jobs

August 21, 2008

www.coolclimatejobs.com launches!
Cool Climate Jobs is an exciting new online job resource for the climate and renewable energy communities. Featuring jobs in the climate, renewable energy, and green collar research, policy, and practice fields from around the world, Cool Climate Jobs is free to browse as well as an affordable platform to promote your employment opportunities. [...]

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Wordpress 2.5

March 30, 2008

Originally slated for a release date of March 10, 2008, Wordpress 2.5 made its debut yesterday. Most notable in the long list of improvements is a major upgrade to the admin area. Writing posts, pages, and especially managing assets (images, videos, mp3 files, etc.) received a total re-vamp and a slick new user interface [...]

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In Praise of Wordpress

February 7, 2008

The gang here at Invisible Window has developed multiple sites and written many articles about using Wordpress as a content management system (CMS). We believe it excels at this task and, more importantly, puts the site owner in charge of their own content. And who, after all, knows more about their company than anyone [...]

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Google Maps Wordpress Plugin

December 14, 2007

For over a year now our Invisible Window team has built some very cool web sites using Wordpress as the content management system. We’re pleased to announce our first publicly released Wordpress plugin, Google Mapper. Installing this plugin allows a site admin to add locations, stores, dealers, etc. to the database and for [...]

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10 Über cool jQuery Plugins

September 25, 2007

I have been using jQuery for a while now to add a little flair to forms and features of the sites we develop here at Invisible Window. jQuery is one (an in my opponion, the best) of the JavaScript libraries that have sprung up to simplify and enhance JavaScript development. jQuery allows the [...]