Web Development
Being a WordPress Developer
We consider ourselves to be WordPress developers here at Pixel Jar. While we’ve certainly used other tools over the years, as a company, we focus our learning, marketing, and teaching efforts on the WordPress platform. This means that we focus on a specific platform that handles many of the core requirements for any project. We’ve…
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The New Improved Pixel Jar – Our Website Redesign
Pixel Jar is always really busy working on client projects, we haven’t had a good opportunity to focus on our own website redesign. As a web development agency we knew it was time to make some changes. We were suffering from the “cobbler’s kids” syndrome – we had no shoes. We started talking about the…
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At 120,000 Miles, How Does Your WordPress Website Hold Up?
A friend of mine once told me how he often compares having a WordPress website to owning a car. At the time I didn’t think much about it. Reflecting back on it, I think the comparison makes a lot of sense. Let me tell you why. The Make, Model, and Color of Your Vehicle Surely…
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Web Design for The Ethical Society
We recently had the opportunity to work on a web design and development project with The Ethical Society of St. Louis. An Ethical Society is organized similarly to a religious organization. Instead of being focused on the worship of a specific deity the society focuses on the betterment of people and upholding ethical practices in…
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A WordPress Development Glossary
It seems like there’s a new term or technology influencing our work every week. Keeping our definitions straight is critical to providing the best service possible. This WordPress development glossary presents a list of some key terms you should know. Accessibility – A design process that focuses on making sure website content is available and…
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Development Tools – How We Get the Job Done
Whenever we are at a gathering of nerd, invariably the conversation will turn to what development tools we use. We’ll exchange ideas, tips, new applications we’ve tested and so on. Ultimately we are always looking for things that will make us work faster and things that make working easier. So with that, here’s what we…
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Background Processing for Faster Batches
We had a client approach us with a specific functionality request. They wanted to capture news articles from around the Internet that mentioned members of their staff. Then, they would display these articles on their site. We came up with a great solution that leveraged two technologies in an efficient combination. Setting the Stage First…
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Redesigning a Website Workflow
We’ve had the pleasure of working with JWC on a regular basis and they approached us with a big project – a complete overhaul of their website workflow. As we dug into the project, we found that several of their core processes were costing them unnecessary time and were inefficient. This often occurs with business…
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Welcome the Dallas Wings
We were privileged to collaborate with the WNBA’s Dallas Wings to bring their new name and look online. We are currently working on the permanent site for the team as well. Stay tuned!
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