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WordPress Custom Dashboard Panel

I made up a little custom dashboard widget for our clients at Louisville Web Group. At current, we’re placing this on the majority of our client’s WordPress installations. It gives the client a quick, easy way to see our contact information as well as a central spot to download their support documentation/”how-to guide”. I’m going to look into expanding this a bit in the future, possibly with a bit of JSON so that instead of having to update each dashboard with new info individually, I could update all dashboards simultaneously. This would be great for alerting clients to upcoming server maintenance or holiday hours.

The new Kentucky Wines site has launched! I can’t take design credit for this one, but I can take coding credit for it, with Ryan Matteson doing the Flash and taking care of changes from the client. This is a WordPress based site.

Kentucky Wines site

We aren’t picking on you. Really. But when considering a designer and/or developer for your project, it’s important to have some things figured out first.
I came across a post this morning that, in a joking way, is a good example. Written by Neil Middleton, it takes the all-too usual software building experiences and applies them to architecture. What if the same considerations expected of us by clients were dictated to someone building a new house? It’d be a mess, really.

http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/02/if-architects-had-to-work-like-software-developers/

Right now I’m working on doing a PHP blog which Louisville Web Group will likely use for smaller sites that don’t need WordPress or a full CMS. After that, I’m going to do some tutorials and (hopefully) end up with a Ruby on Rails blog as well as a Ruby-based Twitter clone.

After that? Hopefully I’ll be able to finally write the Shows/Event app for Louisville Hardcore.com that I’ve been wanting to do forever. I need to have it read the user tables from the forums, and then allow those users to post information to a separate database that will archive shows/events after the indicated time for each one. Not hard in theory, but it’s something new to try.

I guess once all of that is done, I’ll try to come up with a new design for this site… yeah, right. Thank you pre-fab wordpress designs!