The venerable Image Widget has been around a long time. Currently on version 4.0.6, t’s been downloaded over 661,000 times as of this writing, and I’ve been using it myself for at least 3 years on client sites. It’s a simple little plugin with a narrow purpose: use the native WordPress media manager to add…
Our latest launches: two Colorado company websites – one for our long-term client Portable Rental Systems, and the other for Loveland-based Ace Chem-Dry. Portable Rental Systems recently expanded into a new industry, septic cleaning and pumping. They had content related to the new field on their existing website but the work had grown to the…
So far in September Red Kite has launched two Colorado company websites – one for the non-profit Atmosphere Conservancy, and the other for Clear Surroundings Organizing. The Atmosphere Conservancy was using an older custom WordPress theme that had begun to break as new WordPress versions were introduced. We replaced the old theme with a new…
We love WordPress. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution by any means, but for many small and medium businesses, it’s a fantastic content management system, or CMS. A CMS makes it easy for you to both edit existing pages and add new pages and features to your site yourself. Custom WordPress websites are a solid long-term…
What’s the difference between typical self-hosted WordPress hosting and our new Managed Hosting service? Quite a lot! Self-hosted WordPress on a big-box host is certainly less expensive, but you really do get what you pay for. With a cheap hosting account comes slower load times, less security, and vulnerability to the whims of other users…
Not really a ‘new’ service, since I do it all the time… but a different way to package it. WordPress is free and is easy to use out of the box – but it’s also very flexible. You probably want to do more than just edit and add pages and posts, but how exactly do…
In the past two weeks Red Kite has launched two new sites: Beyond the Brochure and Reduce-My-Property-Taxes.com. Both are WordPress sites with custom themes, and both include some custom development work: Beyond the Brochure has embedded videos from Brightcove that play in a custom lightbox; Beyond the Brochure has a private section where auto dealers…
The Colorado State University Environmental Learning Center came to Red Kite looking for help with a few things: We obliged. The new ELC website has all of these features and more, including two calendars (one public and one for internal use), a blog, and a few photo galleries from various programs. We used WordPress, our…
Fort Collins photographer Ralph Smith wanted a site for selling and showing off his work. We used WordPress and the commercial Shopp ecommerce plugin to create a product-based website that’s easy for him to update and grow. We used one of Ralph’s images as a background photo that resizes with the browser, and a simple…
Gabrielle Endress, owner of consulting firm Endress Analytics, hired Red Kite to design and build a custom WordPress theme for her blog after getting frustrated with some aspects of the commercial theme she’d been using. Mainly, the featured content slider on the home page – a tool that displays an image and content from each…
We built the Envisagent site with client Tom Stuve, a Colorado-based IT services provider and digital signage specialist. The WordPress site has a custom theme and a sign gallery to show off his work; for the most part the site serves as a services guide for the two parts of the company. Before we even…
Dog’s Best Life is an online magazine/blog for dog lovers. Dog’s Best Life’s owner, Sara Hansen, found herself with a commercial WordPress theme that had some serious problems.There was no obvious way to edit some basic elements of the theme, plus it was completely broken in Firefox. After contacting the theme provider together and not…