I design and develop websites and applications for businesses in need of an IT makeover.
Wonderful Machine is a company dedicated to marketing some of the talented photographers in the world. Their primary website succeeded at making their member photographers visible to top-tier clients, but they were in need of a secondary website to help communicate the mission of the company itself.
What started as a simple Wordpress blog quickly became a much more complex project as it behan to encompass the many facets of what Wonderful Machine does. Thankfully, through a combination of off-the-shelf plugins and custom temple development, we were able to turn a vanilla Wordpress installation into a capable content management solution.
I’m a finnicky software buyer. I don’t like parting with cash until I’m absolutely sure it’s worth it. So what makes a piece of software worth buying? How much is too much or too little to charge? And what are the dealbreakers when it comes to going from trial download to full license?
At it’s best, front-end development is like magic, breathing life into a photoshop document or application design. At it’s worst, it’s boring, highly detailed grunt work full of monotony and repetition. But with the right tool set, you can alleviate that pain and get back to building awesome stuff.
I’ve worked with writers, editors and content people who are, at times, close to tears trying to understand why it has to be so difficult to achieve such simple tasks as formatting multi-line captions, putting images in a sidebar or displaying data in a table. These sorts of problems aren’t just the result of bad software either, they’re endemic to the most popular systems like Wordpress and even high-end CMS systems that costs tens of thousands of dollars.
The web is the most amazing publishing tool ever, right? Why is it so hard to get things to look right?
