Life @ High Road Communications

Using a unitless line-height to enhance your typography

Mike — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:52:45 +0000

I came across a fairly old article on Web typography (by Eric Meyer) this morning that I found pretty interesting and thought I would share some of my feelings on the subject matter. Up to this point I’ve been doing things completely different. To ensure consistency through the layout, I set a base font size of [...]

iStudio becomes High Road Communications

Mike — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:41:15 +0000

Talk about starting the new year with a bang! Here are at iStudio, we are absolutely pumped to announce that we have joined with High Road Communications. “We are thrilled to share that today, iStudio is joining High Road Communications. We are merging into one company, under the High Road Communications brand, bringing to [...]

Plugin bugs, or “gotcha’s”, when used in WPMU

Mike — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:13:21 +0000

In the days leading up to the Christmas break I was involved in creating a WPMU-powered WordPress blog for one of our clients. This was the first time we (iStudio) or I had used this product, so as you might expect there were a few growing pains that were encountered along the way. Since I [...]

iStudio launches redesign of Robertson Partners

Mike — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:17:17 +0000

Last last week the iStudio team launched a redesign of the Robertson Partners Web site. Robertson Partners was founded by the Partners of Ottawa’s leading executive search firm,Odgers Berndtson. Three decades of experience in executive search has given us an informed perspective on what organizations are seeking in executive level job candidates, and how hiring decisions [...]

iStudio helps launch redesign of Sun Life Canada

Mike — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:06:28 +0000

During the early hours of Sunday morning, the Sun Life team launched a new redesign of their Sun Life Financial Canada home page, as well as redesign to their Careers and About us sections. A good number of us at iStudio were involved in this project – from the design and templates to content restructuring – [...]

Quick fix for “Simple Feed List” WordPress plugin

Mike — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:44:48 +0000

I came across a bug today with a RSS feed plugin we use for one of our WordPress-powered client sites. The bug is with Simple Feed List (v 1.4, by David Artiss), and occurs when the feed link supplied is either dead or unreachable. When either one of these two cases occur, the plugin fails [...]

WordPress Plugin Release: Menu Order

Mike — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:06 +0000

Last week I entered into the WordPress development world to create a plugin that I personally had a real need for – better page hierarchy setup within WordPress. If you have any experience with creating a CMS-type site with WordPress, you’ll know that setting up the navigation structure can be a tedious and time-consuming task – [...]

Adding a user agreement JavaScript plugin to IdeaJam

Mike — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:32:06 +0000

The following is an overview of implementing a simple “terms and agreement” JavaScript plugin to your existing IdeaJam Web site. First, you need to create the necessary language strings in each of the languages that your IdeaJam installation is using. Within each language, the following JavaScript variables need to be defined in the JavaScript Settings section: Defining [...]

Tutorial: Turning WordPress into a CMS using WPML

Mike — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:24:55 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I was part of a team here at iStudio that helped launch the redesign of the TeamCOPD Web site (by the Canadian Lung Association). Part of my involvement in the project was setting up the Web site in WordPress and customizing it to act as a mini CMS with the [...]

Green Bin Ottawa featured on Sitefinity Showcase

Mike — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:17:12 +0000

Today I received word from Sitefinity that they are now featuring a recent Web site release we did for the City of Ottawa called Green Bin Ottawa. The feature can be found in their “Green” industry showcase page here: http://www.sitefinity.com/showcases/industry.aspx?ShowcasesCatID=Green