One of the many advantages of working with Radar Hill is that we create a completely custom website to suit your business. We know how important it is to be able to easily manage your website’s content, which is why our Content Management System (CMS), called Pyramid, is an added feature available to our clients. Pyramid enables the user to edit content themselves, which means that there is no waiting to get that latest announcement or picture added onto a website – simply login to the backend and make the desired changes.
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New Pyramid Features
New VREB Plugin
Over the last few months the team at Radar Hill have been working on a new plugin for the Victoria Real Estate Board. They began by evaluating what already existed, which was a plugin that Radar Hill created in 2013. It was great when it was built, however technology changes at such a pace that it became necessary not just to update the plugin, but to create a whole new one.
To build the new plugin, Roger, Ken, and Mike proceeded to create a mock-up of the end goal, which allowed them to easily rearrange items and preview the functionality of it before completely building it.
It is not just the look on the outside that changes, but all the behind-the-scenes coding that requires development. The technical details will not be elaborated on in this post, but if you would like more information, feel free to ask Roger. Suffice to say, this new plugin is awesome!
Winter Tips, Tricks & Shiny Stuff
Welcome to 2016 and another exciting year here on Vancouver Island. With the holiday festivities behind us, it is time for this season’s collection of useful tips, reviews, and links of interest. Don’t let the title of this newsletter mislead you. The tips don’t relate to winter, snow, heavy rain or gloom, but hopefully they are of interest to local businesses and our clients. Continue reading
Autumn Tips, Tricks & Shiny Stuff
The Halloween festivities are over, ghosts, goblins and ghoulish ghouls are creeping and crawling back into their crates, and it is time for this season’s collection of useful tips, reviews, and links of interest.
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Mobile Websites Are Still Dead
April 2012 I wrote about a blog post “Mobile is Dead” detailing the death of mobile only websites. These are the websites that replicate the desktop version of a website for display on a phone. This type of website is SO dead now I cannot believe they are still being sold.
Don’t Waste Your Money
A mobile “friendly” website is not what you want to buy. The reasoning is obvious – it’s only meant to display professionally on a phone! Responsive web design (RWD) is where you want to make your investment – a responsive website is capable of SO much more and is the only product professional web developments companies should sell you. Check out the good reasons to invest in RWD: Continue reading
April Tips, Tricks & Shiny Stuff
Spring is in the air, although our winter has been unusually mild. Time for this month’s collection of useful tips, reviews, and links of interest.
Password Tip
What makes a good password? How do you choose a good password? If you are now using any of the password wallet or password lockers we mentioned last month, these can create passwords that are harder to break because they are composed of numbers, and UPPER and lower case letters. An example is rnuw7DuaGAhZ. Some have the option of including other characters such as $%&#!*. An example is C$qrw5k9x9K&. Note that not all programs you log into will accept special characters. Continue reading
March Tips, Tricks & Shiny Stuff
As we prepare for tomorrow’s Google workshop, here is this month’s collection of useful tips, reviews, and links of interest.
Things that make you go ‘Hmmm’
One Google AdWord we did for a local plumber was ‘disapproved’ by Google. The ad (modified to protect the innocent):
24/7 Drain Rooter Service
[website]
Professional Drain Scopes & Repair.
Call Now And Receive $25 Off!
The reason Google gave for disapproving it? Their Guns & parts category. It seems the Scopes part triggered their anti-weapons filter.
Hmmm…
Password Tip
It is a good idea, a really good idea, not to use the same password for everything. Do not use an identifiable password, either. You have dozens of accounts requiring passwords, and probably think it is convenient to use as few passwords as possible. If a hacker gets into one of your accounts, that hacker can get into the others, and then you are doomed. Continue reading
Website Upgrade: Cherish Community Living
The website for Cherish Living may not look much different, but the back end sure does! We’ve done a major website upgrade for CherishVictoria.ca to our fabulous Pyramid CMS. Previously Cherish had to send all change requests into us as there was no CMS (Content Management System) in place from the previous designer. Now they can make changes to all their page content themselves, making updates quick and easy!
On top of the content management we also built a document repository for investors. The investors section allows those interested in investing to sign up and be granted access to special documents. Cherish has full control over who is granted access and what documents each user access to. Continue reading
Workshop Invitation: Getting the most out of Radar Hill’s Pyramid Content Management System; and Hiring
Workshop Invitation: Getting the most out of Radar Hill’s Pyramid Content Management System; We are Hiring. Newsletter Volume #3, Issue #6: November 26, 2012.