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		<title>The Possibility Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City at Peace  is now officially “The Possibility Project” Their new name reflects their growth and their evolving mission since the founding of City at Peace 16 years ago in Washington, DC, and the beginnings of their national effort in New York City 10 years ago.  With their new name, they wanted a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://the-possibility-project.org"><img src="http://w3sights.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/the-possibility-project-2.jpg" alt="the-possibility-project-2" title="the-possibility-project-2" width="301" height="225" class="alignright size-full wp-image-680" /></a><a href="http://w3sights.com/city-at-peace-new-york/"><strong>City at Peace</strong></a>  is now officially <a href="http://the-possibility-project.org"><strong>“The Possibility Project”</strong></a> Their new name reflects their growth and their evolving mission since the founding of City at Peace 16 years ago in Washington, DC, and the beginnings of their national effort in New York City 10 years ago.  With their new name, they wanted a new web site and I was happy to be selected to set up a site using WordPress, of course.  I say of course because WordPress is what I prefer to work with these days and has become my de facto standard for many reasons.  You&#8217;re pretty much covered for SEO using WordPress, for one.  With so many plugins written for WordPress a site can be extended to do almost anything you imagine.  Not to mention the fact that WordPress is trully user-friendly,  so web site owners can do a lot of updating themselves.  </p>
<p>The new Possibility Project uses a plugin with a name that I love &#8211; <a href="http://hackadelic.com/solutions/wordpress/widgetvoodoo"> <strong>Hackadelic Widget Voodoo</strong></a>. Go to <a href="http://the-possibility-project.org">“The Possibility Project”</a> and click on the black sub headings in the sidebar to see it in action.  And that&#8217;s not it!  Pages throughout the site with a lot of text have sections or chapters that are collapsible, too, making for a very neat appearance and allowing a visitor to go directly to and only read what they want to without sifting through long pages.  See an example on the <a href="http://the-possibility-project.org/about/cities/">Cities</a> page.  Thank you to <a href="http://hackadelic.com/about"><strong>Zoran</strong></a>, the author of this plugin for making both sections in the sidebar and on the page into  &#8220;cool, collapsible, AJAX-type citizens&#8221;.</p>
<p>Visit the <a href="http://the-possibility-project.org/galleryvideo/"><strong>Gallery</strong></a> to see images from recent productions, original musicals and images from community action projects.  Here you will see what The Possibility Project envisions &#8211; A society where teenagers are valued, respected and play a leading role in creating a better world.  There are many ways to <a href="http://the-possibility-project.org/get-involved/"><strong>get involved</strong></a> such as volunteering, donating, attending a show, or joining the project if you area teenager in New York City or one of the locations with Possibility Projects. </p>
<p>After working hard on this site to have it ready for launching on August 2nd, it was gratifying to receive an email from Kelly thanking me and saying that the site looked great and that everything went smoothly.   </p>
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		<title>Adonis Press</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/adonis-press-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adonis Press, committed to publishing and distributing books on phenomenological science,  is now a shopping cart site, using  Zen Cart, the free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software that w3sights works with. In addition to being able to order books on-line using the new secure shopping cart, customers are now able to search [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adonispress.org"><img src="http://w3sights.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/adonispress.jpg" alt="adonispress" title="adonispress" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-full wp-image-664" /></a><a href="http://adonispress.org">Adonis Press</a>, committed to publishing and distributing books on phenomenological science,  is now a shopping cart site, using  Zen Cart, the free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software that w3sights works with. In addition to being able to order books on-line using the new secure shopping cart, customers are now able to search the entire catalog of over 75 books.  I did the customizations, development and set up.  John Barnes, the Store Manager, is already working in Admin and will now be able to add new books to the catalog himself.  Please visit the <a href="http://adonispress.org"><strong>new Adonis Press site</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Over Mountain Builders</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/over-mountain-builders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new site for Over Mountain Builders is now online! This site is designed to be beautifully small; it&#8217;s not a half-empty big site. Each page holds a small amount of text, an image, or some of both.  It&#8217;s also easy to maintain because it is developed with WordPress. Please visit the new Over [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://overmountainbuilders.com"><img src="http://w3sights.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/over_mountain_300_225.jpg" alt="over_mountain_300_225" title="over_mountain_300_225" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-full wp-image-652" /></a>A new site for Over Mountain Builders is now online! This site is designed to be beautifully small; it&#8217;s not a half-empty big site. Each page holds a small amount of text, an image, or some of both.  It&#8217;s also easy to maintain because it is developed with WordPress. Please visit the <a href="http://overmountainbuilders.com"><strong>new Over Mountain Builders site</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Peter Fasano Ltd.</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/peter-fasano-ltd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Peter Fasano site is online now!  w3sights redesigned the site.  My goal was to create an elegant web site with a simple layout for presenting Peter Fasano&#8217;s beautiful, and sometimes quirky, fabrics and wallcoverings. This became largely a matter of removing all unnecessary details, which is not as easy as it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://peterfasano.com"><img src="http://w3sights.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/peterfasano_interior.jpg" alt="Peter Fasano" title="Peter Fasano" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-full wp-image-630" /></a>The new Peter Fasano site is online now!  w3sights redesigned the site.  My goal was to create an elegant web site with a simple layout for presenting Peter Fasano&#8217;s beautiful, and sometimes quirky, fabrics and wallcoverings. This became largely a matter of removing all unnecessary details, which is not as easy as it may seem.  </p>
<p>Each time you visit the site,  a different fabric or wallcovering comes up on the Home page. To accomplish this, I set the Home page up to use a random image generator which picks a fabric or wallcovering image out of a folder and displays it. </p>
<p>On the new site you are now able to view Peter Fasano&#8217;s entire collection of fabrics and wallcoverings, in all of their colorways. The site uses Zen Cart&#8217;s  cataloging, additional image,  and add-on lightbox features. And it is a good example of how Zen Cart can truly be customized to meet the personality and needs of the business owner. All customizations were made using Zen Cart&#8217;s template system that separates the look-and-feel from the code and logic behind the site.  </p>
<p>I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t mention that with Zen Cart the site owner can update all of the content easily themselves.   Zen Cart has a powerful Administration tool which,  once you are familiar with it , makes maintaining a site a matter of just logging in.</p>
<p>One of the comments I received was: &#8220;Thank you for your hard work.  The aesthetics of the site are quite beautiful.&#8221;  Please visit the <a href="http://peterfasano.com"><strong>new Peter Fasano site</strong></a>, I hope you enjoy looking at the  fabrics and wallcoverings, I certainly did while working on the site!  </p>
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		<title>Salisbury Forum</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/salisbury-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to work with the local non-profit organization, The Salisbury Forum, and design a new web site for them.  I was asked to make the site look and feel like their posters and brochures; I choose WordPress as the infrastructure. I set up two categories: Events and News, and  the site&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://salisburyforum.org"><img src="http://w3sights.com/images/home/homepages/salisbury_forum_300_225.jpg" alt="" title="Salisbury Forum" width="300" height="225"   class="alignright size-medium wp-image-350"/>I was pleased to work with the local non-profit organization, The Salisbury Forum, and design a new web site for them.  I was asked to make the site look and feel like their posters and brochures; I choose WordPress as the infrastructure. I set up two categories: Events and News, and  the site&#8217;s Home page highlights the most recent posts in each.   A comment about the site: &#8220;The website looks super sharp, easily navigable; the photos are terrific, the info is easily accessed and digested.&#8221;  Visit the new <a href="http://salisburyforum.org"><strong>Salisbury Forum </strong></a> site and let me know what you think!</p>
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		<title>Sagebrook Partners, LLC</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/sagebrook-partners-llc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was happy to be asked to assist in updating the site for Sagebrook Partners, LLC.  It is a WordPress site and while some updating is being done by one of the partners, I have done some additional work.  One seemingly little change I suggested was with the permalinks. Permalinks are the permanent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was happy to be asked to assist in updating the site for Sagebrook Partners, LLC.  It is a WordPress site and while some updating is being done by one of the partners, I have done some additional work.  One seemingly little change I suggested was with the permalinks. Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual posts or pages.  A permalink is what another site owner  uses to  link to a particular page of your site and also what search results use. The Sagebrook Partners, LLC site was using the default or &#8220;ugly&#8221; format for permalinks.  If you looked up at the browser address bar you would have seen something like this  &#8211; <a href="http://www.sagebrookpartners.com/?page_id=184"> http://www.sagebrookpartners.com/?page_id=184</a>.    I made a change,  easily done, to use pretty permalinks, so that the just mentioned page&#8217;s permalink is now this  -<a href="http://www.sagebrookpartners.com/about-sagebrook-partners/jonathan-baum/"> http://www.sagebrookpartners.com/about-sagebrook-partners/jonathan-baum/</a>.  A small change, but an important one for SEO or Search Engine Optimization.  </p>
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		<title>Hawthorne Valley School</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/hawthorne-valley-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[w3sights has redeveloped Hawthorne Valley School&#8217;s web site so that it now uses WordPress.   The revamped website  enables staff and faculty at the school to manage content more easily and update the website more regularly, making it as responsive as possible to the needs of parents and students. Using WordPress also allows [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://hawthornevalleyschool.org"><img src="http://w3sights.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/hvs-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="hvs" width="300" height="225"   class="alignright size-medium wp-image-350"/></a>w3sights has redeveloped Hawthorne Valley School&#8217;s web site so that it now uses WordPress.   The revamped website  enables staff and faculty at the school to manage content more easily and update the website more regularly, making it as responsive as possible to the needs of parents and students. Using WordPress also allows for us to easily add functionality, such as future plans for  building a password protected area  for parents.  </p>
<p>Note that here is the old Home page, also designed by w3sights.  Visit the new <a href="http://hawthornevalleyschool.org"><strong>Hawthorne Valley School</strong></a> site and let me know what you think!</p>
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		<title>Joel Haynes</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/joel-haynes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Things are happening at joelhaynesart.com&#8230; Four new sections have been added to the site &#8211; Fine Art &#038; Illustration,  Fabrication, Studio, and Do It Yourself.  New photos are already up in Murals and soon will be up in Decorative Painting.  The recent  article in  Berkshire Living, May 2009, about Joel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://joelhaynesart.com"><img src="http://w3sights.com/images/homepages/joel_haynes_art.jpg"  alt="" title="Joel Haynes" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-350" /></a>Things are happening at <a href="http://joelhaynesart.com">joelhaynesart.com</a>&#8230; Four new sections have been added to the site &#8211; Fine Art &#038; Illustration,  Fabrication, Studio, and Do It Yourself.  New photos are already up in Murals and soon will be up in Decorative Painting.  The recent  article in  Berkshire Living, May 2009, about Joel and his  artwork will be included in the Bio/Press section.  </p>
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		<title>Motherhouse</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/motherhouse-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Motherhouse web site has a new look and new features! Recently redeveloped using WordPress, the site uses a number of plugins, two of which are &#8211; Featured Content Gallery for the slide show  and  Event Calendar to display upcoming events, both noticeable on the Home page. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://motherhouse.us"><img src="http://w3sights.com/images/homepages/motherhouse_us.jpg"  alt="" title="Motherhouse" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-350" /></a> The Motherhouse web site has a new look and new features! Recently redeveloped using WordPress, the site uses a number of plugins, two of which are &#8211; Featured Content Gallery for the slide show  and  Event Calendar to display upcoming events, both noticeable on the Home page. </p>
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		<title>Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School</title>
		<link>http://w3sights.com/great-barrington-rudolf-steiner-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hschiller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The web site for the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School was developed using WordPress as a Content Management System. The Home page features a News and Events category in which the 5 most current news and events posts automatically appear.  In addition, the content throughout the site can easily be updated now that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://rudolfsteinerschool.org"><img src="http://w3sights.com/images/home/thumbnails/gbrss.jpg" alt="" title="GBRSS" width="319" height="240" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-350" /></a>The web site for the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School was developed using WordPress as a Content Management System. The Home page features a News and Events category in which the 5 most current news and events posts automatically appear.  In addition, the content throughout the site can easily be updated now that the site is based on WordPress!  Some new features that I added to the site were WordPress categories for Alumni Profiles,  Parent Perspectives, and Mosaic Newsletters, along with  News and Events. WordPress is designed to be Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly and this is as important for a school as it is for a business. </p>
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