The Kilbot Factory has just released a new site for Kinder Memories on DVD. The site features a custom WordPress theme with a Flash Media Player for steaming videos and password managed areas for clients.
There’s been a bit of buzz about Google Apps lately, particularly in web hosting circles with Dreamhost founder Josh Jones recommending his clients use GMail for email rather than their own servers. The Kilbot Factory will be offering Google App integration for our clients in the near future, but anyone can use GMail to archive old emails right now, for free. Here’s how…
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WordPress 2.5 was released a couple of weeks ago and I’ve just updated here at the Kilbot Factory. Wow. This is not a minor release, they have almost completely redone the look of the admin section, particularly the ‘Write’ pages.
Most impressive for me is the upgrade to the rich text editor, WordPress still uses TinyMCE but they’ve upgraded to v.3 which seems to have ironed out a lot of the bugs. Anyone familiar with the old rich text editor will know it was frustrating at best, for most clients I would switch it off and tell them write in code view… not the best solution but much easier than trying to explain/teach the quirks of visual mode.
Waterkeepers Australia came to us in desperate need of a website redesign. Their previous website was hard to update, hard to navigate and hard to read. So this is what we did;
- Stripped out the old table-based layout and started from scratch with a fresh, modern design.
- Installed WordPress as a content management system for easy updating.
- Integrated Google Calendar and Flickr to increase community involvement.
- Brought members and participation to the fore with feature boxes and quick links.
We think the results speak for themselves, so please check out the Waterkeepers Australia website and help protect Australia’s precious waterways.
We have just released a new site for Gisborne Golf Club, a great golf course about 45 minutes drive north of Melbourne. The site uses WordPress as a content management system for easy updating and features the high standards of coding and attention to detail that you would expect from a Kilbot Factory website.