Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

An interesting (?) implementation of Wordpress as a CMS

This past weekend (and early this week) I’ve been working on a small micro site for a client who needed something ready to go ASAP. In an effort to conserve time, we decided to go a CMS route so that the client could take care of all then content population. As we’ve done so many [...]

“If I had a million dollars … I wouldn’t buy Adobe Fireworks CS4”

When it comes to Photoshop, I admit, I’m a complete fool. I know the absolute bare minimum – just enough to get by. I can take a sweet design by one of our talented creative guys here at iStudio and do what I need to do – which is basically creating a series of slice [...]

CSS length units you’ve never used

I’ve been doing CSS layouts for quite some time now and it is safe to say that I’ve never used most of the length units that are available with the CSS 2.1 specification.
If you’re like me, you’ve used pixels (px) the most, perhaps a sprinkling of points (pt) for font sizing and then for all [...]

Launch of Sitefinity CMS Web site – Canadian Index of Wellbeing

This past week a Sitefinity CMS project I was involved in for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) was launched to the public.
My role in the operation was the template build (HTML) and styling (CSS). Integration into Sitefinity was a breeze – just basically plugging my HTML templates into a MasterPage and adding my [...]

Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages.
SHARETHIS is null
I don’t know how many different things we tried to get it to work, but [...]

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