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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.

Security Innovations

Security Innovations, a surveillance and security firm in Ohio, has received a new site. Validation for HTML 5, some CSS 3 add-ons (which unfortunately are the only thing preventing validation), and built w/ PHP, the new site is available for you to view at anytime. It uses a little javascript for the rotating banner on the homepage, and has some flash animations on some of the interior pages. Videos are embedded on the Video page utilizing Flowplayer.

Ready Cab screen shot

Several months ago, I completed a new site for one of the most trusted names in Louisville transportation – Ready Cab. Their new site has a CMS system so they can keep the site up to date, has a Flight Checker so you can see if flights are on time, and you can even place a cab reservation on their site.

Check out their site at readycab.com

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!