Centerville, Richmond Indiana Website Design, Development & Graphic Design Company ~ Agee Design

If you’re fortunate enough to be using WordPress to power either all or part of your website are you aware that WordPress is almost constantly being updated and improved? Well, it is and this latest version (2.7) is incredible!

Most notably the administrative interface (where you post new entries, manage comments, etc) has been completely redesigned and is now much more intuitive to browse and has added some wonderful interface functions that make common tasks much faster.

If you’re using WordPress and haven’t upgraded in a while we’ll be happy to help you with upgrading, and don’t worry your current theme will continue to function exactly as it does with the current version! However, if you’re not using WordPress and are looking for a powerful website management tool we’d love to talk with you about your project. Contact us today and take full advantage of this wonderful platform.

If you’re someone running an installed version of WordPress on your server do you ever get tired of going through the process of upgrading to the latest version? Maybe you’ve even stopped upgrading because it’s such a hassle. Well, I found a plugin recently that’s going to make the whole process much, much easier!

It’s called “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” and it’s a free plugin that you can download from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Below is the description from WordPress.org as of this posting:

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

I’ve used it and I was very, very impressed. If you decide to run it manually it guides you through the process and all you really have to do is click a link after each phase of the upgrade is complete.

So, why deprive yourself of the amazing new features in WordPress when you can upgrade automatically with a few clicks!

Download the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin

Looking for an easy way to make sure that visitors always see www.yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.com? It’s simple if you’re hosting on a server that can handle .htaccess files. Take a look at the code below:

RewriteEngine on

Options FollowSymlinks

rewritecond %{http_host} ^ageedesign.com [nc]

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.ageedesign.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Using this code anytime a visitor visits any page on your website, the URL will be automatically updated to include the www. Simply copy/paste this code into a file called .htaccess and save it at the root level of your website and upload it and you should be in business! For more information on htaccess and MOD Rewrite check out this article.

Back in 1997 typographer David Siegel changed the way web designers made websites; some would say he even changed the web itself. He wrote about an emerging technique for pixel-perfect designs. The technique involved combining the <table> tag with sliced images and spacer gif images to achieve a design that was all but impossible back then. Web designers were overjoyed with this new found wisdom. They could now create web page designs that were as graphically rich and fluid as their traditional print media cousins. But as happy as the designers around the world were, David began to recognize the implications of his discovery. Read the rest of this entry »

If you, like me, are excited about the possibility of creating rich apps for the iPhone but aren’t too excited about paying the high price for the iPhone I’ve got just the solution for you. MarketCircle, creator of the great Mac time tracking software Billings has created iPhoney, an iPhone simulator that allows you to test your web apps on an amazingly realistic looking iPhone interface.

From their website:
“iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.�?

I’ve been contemplating creating an iPhone app since hearing that they would support third party web development on the device but I was reluctant since I wasn’t planning to purchase an iPhone. Now I’ve got a good reason to reconsider!

Marketcircle’s iPhoney