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Its been a great year! Thank you to all of our clients and friends.
Some highlights:
- We've produced over 230 online training videos for OSTraining.com
- We've been in the UK, Washington DC, Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis, Boston and more... teaching Joomla and Drupal to people from Pfizer to MIT
- We've launched a number of sites in 2011
- Rod is blogging again! (http://www.rodmartin.net)
May you have a blessed 2012!
We've Released Three New Joomla 1.6 Videos - Including ACL
It's January 10, 2011. Joomla 1.6 Stable should be released sometime before 11:59pm Hawaiian time today!
In preparation for that, we've put together 3 videos that will provide a great overview of what you'll need to know about administering a Joomla 1.6 site.
- Part 1 - The Site, Users and Menu Management Menus (9:52)
- Part 2 - The Articles, Components, Extensions and Help Menus (15:29)
- Joomla 1.6 Access Control Lists (26:31)
How the web is built - Static html vs the CMS
The folks over at W3Techs.com have released an interesting study on the distribution of web development styles.
A whopping 76% of websites are still not using a popular CMS. This doesn't necessarily mean that they are static sites... many could be dynamic - using PHP or another tool... but only 24% are using a recognizable content management system like Joomla or WordPress.
OSTraining Offers FREE Classes to Schools
This is a pretty cool!
Here's part of their announcement:
That landmark coincided with the holiday season so we celebrated by giving back: we held a free class for 16 non-profit organizations in Atlanta.
Fast forward almost a year and last week we hit another milestone: 200 live classes! Those Joomla and Drupal classes were held all across North America and England, from Los Angeles to London and from Vancouver to Miami.
This year's landmark also coincided with the holiday season and so we've decided to give back again, only bigger and better:
We're Featured!
One of the things we're passionate about is training. Yes, we're an internet marketing/web design company... but Rod loves to teach. He's just finished his 115th online training video for OSTraining.com. The topic of this video was JCalPro - a calendar component for Joomla (view the tutorials).
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Portfolio
Our clients range from small local businesses and community groups, to larger corporate and ministry clients around North America.
Contact us to request a free consultation
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seeJesus.net - New Site - www.seejesus.net - Joomla/Virtuemart We were tasked with taking their static/php driven site and replicating it completely in the Joomla CMS. We created 2 custom templates and some custom php coding to create the same affect. Status: Finished |
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Camp Qwanoes - Marketing Campaign - www.bcsummercamps.com - PHP/Javascript/JQuery Status: Finished |
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Ripley Crossing.com - www.ripleycrossing.com - The new direction in senior living. Status: Finished |
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DocCrandall.com - www.doccrandall.com - Joomla/PHP/MySQL Status: Finished |
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Voice of a Child - www.voiceofachild.net - Child Advocates are trained community volunteers who are appointed by the court to speak for the best interest of these neglected and abused children. We serve as investigator, advocate, and facilitator. We are their voices. Every year thousands of children are abused or neglected. They are put into a court system they do not understand. They need a voice to help determine what is in their best interest. Child Advocates are trained community volunteers who are appointed by the court to speak for the best interest of these neglected and abused children. We serve as investigator, advocate, and facilitator. We are their voices. Status: Finished |
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Portage Lake Covenant Bible Camp - www.portagelake.org - site rescue/redesign Status: Finished |
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Grace Adventures.org - www.graceadventures.org - Status: Finished |
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Kentucky Travel Industry Association - www.ktia.com - PHP/MySQL/Back-end data The Kentucky Travel Industry Association unites the Commonwealth's most progressive and innovative travel and tourism-related business and organizations through: Advocacy, Collaboration, Professionalism, and Development. As the unified Voice for the travel industry, KTIA is committed to promoting and strengthiening the common objectives of our travel partners. Status: Finished |
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seeJesus.net - www.seeJesus.net - Joomla/PHP/MySQL seeJesus is a Christian ministry who trains people to lead small groups and outreach through seminars (you host) and conferences (seeJesus hosts), and a mentoring program called seeJesus Partners. Status: In Progress |
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St. Marys United Methodist Church Foundation - http://www.smumcfoundation.org - Joomla/PHP/MySQL St. Marys is a fantastic foundation - based in S.E. Georgia - with an incredible story. We were so happy to partner with them to help them tell their story. We were able to streamline their proposal application using online forms and requests for information. Video has become a significant part of their site - and it only takes one short command to include it on any page. Status: Finished |
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Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation - http://www.coastalgeorgiafoundation.org/ - Joomla/PHP/MySQL The Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation is a community foundation serving Glynn, McIntosh, and Camden counties in coastal Georgia. This important foundation came to us wanting a new site that better reflected their position in the community - and gave them the flexibility to update it themselves. They recently granted $50,000 to deserving non-profit projects in their area. We're pleased to be a small part of that on-going support in the Georgia community. Status: Finished |
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The International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection - www.ifcpp.org - Joomla/PHP/MySQL The second part was 14 sessions from their 2009 National Conference - taped, edited and online in three weeks as part of their online certification courses. Read an overview and watch a clip. Since the site was completed, both memberships and training revenue have increased dramatically... we'll be posting a white paper when the complete stats are in. Status: Finished |
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120 Online Training Videos - OSTraining.com - Final Cut Pro, Screenflow, Photoshop Shot on "infinite white" - (ie - the Apple commercials - I'm a Mac / I'm a PC), we were able to put graphics, websites... anything in front of or behind the instructor. (see a sample here ). Adding video to your site is easier than you think... but still takes a professional approach - let us know if we can help. Status: Finished |
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Shine Out Loud - Camp Qwanoes (Vancouver Island, B.C. Canada) - www.shineoutloud.ca - Joomla/PHP/MySQL Because this is a Christian camp - the client wanted some control over the content that YouTube doesn't offer. Admin approval on content, ratings without comments and other features that were added to allow kids to put their videos up without getting "bad reviews" that are rampant on YouTube. Lots of fun on this one (hey - camp is fun!) |
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Ron Hutchcraft Ministries, Inc. - Joomla/PHP/MySQL This major project included 10 individual sites that encompassed the various aspects of RHM's ministry. Project included a number of custom scripts for data synchronization, email marketing, e-commerce etc. Outstanding Features:
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Christian Security Network - Joomla/PHP/MySQL Status: Finished |
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The Doug and Jon Show - Joomla/PHP/MySQL Status: Finished |
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Dearborn County Chamber of Commerce - www.dearborncountychamber.org - Joomla/PHP/MySQL News updates, event photo galleries and RSS Feeds from around Indiana make this a well traveled site with lots to read about Dearborn County and Lawrenceburg, IN. Status: Finished |
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The Lake Michigan Writing Project - Joomla/PHP/MySQL This was a "rescue" - someone started it but couldn't finish... We customized several modules to get this to where the client needed it to be. From the client: "Thanks for your teaching today. I'm enjoying working with the site thanks to you." Status: Finished |
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Julie Lohre - Women's Fitness Expert - Joomla/PHP/MySQL Status: Finished |
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Canyon Ministries - www.canyonministries.comJoomla/Php/MySQL This site was a freebie for a friend who runs trips down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon (trip of a lifetime...)
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Internet Ministry Conference Workshop Site - php Our chief designer spoke at the 2007 and 2008 Internet Ministry Conference in Grand Rapids -- this is the site we wrote to support it. Status: Finished |
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Bible in Schools - www.bibleinschools.net Drupal/Php/MySQL |
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Hybrid Gym - www.hybrid-gym.com - Joomla! A local MMA style gym needed a site to display fight videos and other details about the gym. (And since the owner is huge and intimidating :) - we obliged!) Online video, a weird home page and lots more at this site. |
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Answers in Genesis - www.answersingenesis.org - ASP.net Our chief designer managed the team that produced this award-winning website for almost 3 years. During that time they increased traffic, saw income increase by 27-35% each year, initiated AiG's online education, created a very popular blog, and developed a video on demand model that saw incredible increases in sales for older product. |
Other Clients
We have clients in the United States, Canada and Europe. Our staff is multi-national and ready to serve.
Other clients include:
- Grace Adventures
- Returning the Gift.org
- Volute Engineering
- T&M Precision
- Boggs and Race Accounting
- MinistryTogether.com
- Grand Rapids First Church
- GlobalVision
- Clayton Painting
- Instituto Interglobal (Spanish online education)
- Partners Worldwide (CMS consulting)
- A Work In Progress (website)
- Reef Ministries (website)
- Voice of a Child (website)
- Dearborn County Chamber of Commerce (marketing campaign)
- Washington Baptist Church
Presentations
In both 2007 and 2008, Rod presented at the Internet Ministry Conference in Grand Rapids, MI. Those presentations can be viewed here .
2009 Adjunct Professors' Conference - Muncie, IN. - "Inpsire Me Now, Please - Beyond the Bullet Point "
May 2010 - Technolgoy in the Classroom - Sussex, N.B. Canada - Bethany Bible College
