Bitstorm Web recently developed and launched a new website for Project Jericho. Project Jericho, a nationally recognized collaboration between Clark State Performing Arts Center and Job and Family Services of Clark County, changes lives through positive in-depth arts experiences for at-risk youth and families. The website was developed using the WordPress 3.2.1 CMS based on [...]
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Bitstorm Web offers a free Joomla template under GPL License. This template can be used free of charge as long as you refrain from removing the link back to our site as “provider of the template.” This template is provided as-is with no technical support or assistance with integration, however, this is a quality xhtml/css [...]
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In the past few years there has been a significant and well publicized push toward the development of websites that properly display on mobile devices. Publicity would lead one to believe that this mobile device demand is being driven solely by the launch of the iPhone/iPad. Without trying to take anything away from Apple, the [...]
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Bitstorm Web recently developed and launched a new website for the Humane Society of Greater Dayton. Focused on pet adoption, education and the humane treatment of animals, the Humane Society of Greater Dayton develops and offers programs designed to educate the public on proper pet care reduce pet overpopulation, eliminate cruelty to animals, and increase [...]
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Protecting your data is critical and unfortunately it is often something you don’t adequately consider until it’s too late. Fortunately there are many great solutions available in the marketplace, both commercially available and free that can assist you in consistently securing your data before it is too late. Open Source Back Ups Using Dirvish First [...]
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Bitstorm Web recently developed and launched a website for Area 7 Workforce Investment Board. Area 7 is a customer-driven organization led by a business-based Workforce Investment Board. The Board is appointed by county commissioners to oversee Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs in our member counties. They are made up of 11 One-Stop systems, which are comprised of [...]
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Typography is an extremely important component in print and website design. A beautiful design with bland or unflattering typography feels incomplete. If you are looking for some high quality clean fonts for your design or print projects, perhaps one of these can do the trick! Dekar Franchise GreyscaleBasic League Gothic Melbourne Museo Scriptina Walkway
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Bitstorm Web recently developed and launched a website for the Resinall Corp. Resinall Corp is a manufacturer of thermoplastic resins/polymers used as binders and/or elastomer modifiers in a wide range of industrial applications. Their resins are made from both natural and synthetic raw materials using numerous chemical reactions and process equipment. Their success is evident in an [...]
continue reading more » If you’ve been the administrator of a Linux web server for as long as I have, you’ve inevitably run into the problem of what to do when significant upgrades of software come out that may break web sites you currently host. The easy solution is to just build a new server and maintain a legacy [...]
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Bitstorm web recently developed and launched a website for the Dayton – West Central Ohio Regional Extension Center (REC) or DWCO-REC for short. DWCO-REC is a partnership between the Greater Dayton Area Health Information Network (GDAHIN), the West Central Ohio Health Information Network (WCO HIE) and the Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP) with the purpose of helping [...]
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There may come a time when a client would like you to upload some video to YouTube, or it could be that you are tech savvy enough and want to put your own videos online. It seems simple enough; go to YouTube, login and upload. Unfortunately when dealing with DVD media, it turns into a [...]
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PHP and ASP have always been rivals in the programming world, even long before ASP.Net was released as ASP’s successor. The ultimate answer to which is the better language rests largely in the developer and how the language is utilized. Beyond developer comfort with a given language, there are several other more practical aspects to [...]
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The Joomla Mass Content component is something I’ve used for a long time to help make the creation of sections, categories and articles much easier because it enables the developer to create all of these items on a single screen without having to jump back and forth in the control panel. This handy tool can [...]
continue reading more » As a professional developer, I’ve had quite a bit of experience working with the Joomla content management system and I can honestly say I’m very pleased with how versatile it can be in developing a broad range of website solutions. Where Joomla really shines is in its ability to be extended by way of modules, [...]
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Peppermint, or “Peppermint OS One” is a new Linux distribution focused on speed, user-friendly installation, small footprint and the integration of several cloud applications. I first heard about Peppermint through a tech magazine I periodically receive and decided to do a bit more research focusing on some independent reviews. Peppermint OS has been brought to [...]
continue reading more » With our deed in hand, a digital camera, measuring tape and a little bit of time, the TDH staff set forth to stake our claim on Google Earth. In case you are unfamiliar with the application, Google Earth was launched in 2005 and lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, [...]
continue reading more » If you found this article, chances are you were looking for it so I won’t go into great detail on defining exactly what IPC is, but the short description is that it’s a method in which you can pass information to and from another process on the server. In my example today, I will be [...]
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Flash banner ads are everywhere, and if you have even a little bit of experience with Adobe Flash, you may be tasked with creating an online advertisement. If the ad is fairly simple with little content and/or imagery you will probably have little to no problem meeting file size restrictions. On the flip side, clients [...]
continue reading more » When the 20th Century Fox picture “Jumper” staring Hayden Christensen was being released on DVD, the launch event was scheduled to take place at the Appenzeller Visualization Laboratory in our very own Dayton Ohio. We were tasked through our partner, daytaOhio, to come up with a compilation of video clips that could be played using [...]
continue reading more » Recently I had a little time to educate myself further on object oriented programming, I’ve been an object oriented coder for quite some time now but there were some parts of it that I’d not delved into and one of those ended up being Singleton patterns in PHP. A Singleton allows you to create one [...]
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