With plugin modifications we support the original developer by submitting patches to the original plugin, instead of forking out a new plugin and blocking the client from future upgrades.

Any questions feel free to contact us.

More Information.

Facebook’s social plugins allow opportunities to engage and spread your website.

After installing the plugin, head over to the Widget’s section and start adding facebook to your site.

After installing you’ll have the ability to add each social plugin as a widget on your site.

, just after their announcement about their new social plugins I took the opportunity to build out widgets wit

Why the change?

Even though our old site served it’s purpose of providing basic company information and some examples of our work it wasn’t fulfilling the needs of our prospective clients. Our new site allows us to feature our projects in a more digestible way, sorting is available and detailed information about some of our larger projects is provided.

The challenge of content.

One of the challenges of creating this new site was content. I personally don’t like writing but sections needed to be written:

• Homepage – This was easy, since the images were done well before the design was complete and the other content is generated from other sections of the site.
• Portfolio – I’m really proud of this section, I’ll review it more below.
• Services – If you’re a services company this is a no brainer.
• Services > WordPress – A lot of our current business consists of WP and creating a new section detailing out our services for WordPress was a priority.
• Process – It’s purpose is to show the prospective clients our professional workflow. Even though we tend to primarily freelance, providing our process up-front will allow us to build some respect for the work we do. It’s also great to reference to the site instead of copy-pasting it into future emails.
• Testimonials – Hoping to get more in the coming weeks. I went the route of styling the bubble a’la twitter with all CSS ( no images ).
• About – Linked to from the homepage and navigation this is a place for someone to get familiar with our business.
• Blog – I hope to update this at least twice a month, but no guarantees.

What’s so special?

The portfolio section was the main focus of the site, a lot of work was put into getting it just right.

• Custom functions were built in order to return clean results for AJAX.
• The jQuery quicksand plugin was used to create the UI/X.
• The template is also used for category pages and tag pages.
• WP post thumbnails were not used, but a custom function to return the post images was created.

There’s a lot behind this one page, somethings I’d love to go into detail in the future.

The project pages use a custom gallery for navigating through project images. Check out the current featured project to see how it works.

@fontface we’re using typekit to serve up some complimentary type.

Custom templates were made to change the background and colors, these templates will be used for future landing pages ( examples soon ).

That’s not it.

I hope to blog more here, so please subscribe to our feed.

You can also connect with us on your social network of choice:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• or my personal WordPress.org profile

The theme uses the Carrington Theme framework with some initial core modifications to support parent/child theme support.

Child themes that I worked on as a PSD to (x)HTML:

• gigaom.com
• jkontherun.com ( strictly CSS w/ minor child theme mods )
• and theappleblog.com ( strictly CSS w/ minor child theme mods )

Mission

The mission of SecondProject is to create an online community in which designers of green innovation and managers developing small to large scale green projects can network to create solutions for green projects. These projects could be anything from retrofitting a car for bio-diesel to designing a green housing development. Our goal is to provide two things: 1) a community in which project managers can profile their projects to receive community feedback and designers can profile their own skills and work in order to network, and 2) a system through which project managers can run contests to receive design solutions for specific components of their projects. The managers will offer a reasonable prize and the necessary information, and designers will submit their best design solutions, according to the information provided, in order to compete for the prize. With these two components (the community and the contests), our mission is to create the go-to site for green development and innovation.

Objectives

SecondProject is an online green design marketplace / crowd-sourcing platform, that allows members to:

1. Browse and search all projects and contests
2. Post and comment on projects or contests
3. Create and manage personal accounts.
4. Operate as both designers and project managers through the account page.
5. Send messages between members.

Nonmembers will have the ability to:

1. Browse and search non-private projects and contests.
2. Read comments for non-private projects and contests.

Designers will have the ability to:

1. Create and manage public profile of interests & experiences and portfolio of work.
2. Submit, revise, and eliminate their designs for a contest
3. Upload winning designs for designer use.
4. Receive payments for winning submissions and track payment history.
5. View messages and manage comments for submissions and portfolios.

Project Managers will have the ability:

1. Create and update project profiles.
2. Create contest, respond to submissions, select winner, download winning design, and award payment.
3. View messages and manage comments for projects or contests. 4. Track payment history. 5. Update profile information.