Reloaded: www.patriotroad.com
May 22, 2008•
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If you’ve just wandered in, today, May 23 is the re-launch of Redsky@night, my personal blog and community bully-pulpit. This long-overdue makeover gives the site a new commercial-grade undercarriage, new layouts, new graphic treatment, and—as time permits—it will reflect my new commitment to publish regular content here. As my fulcrum in publishing, RSN won’t, perhaps, move the world, but it has been a useful place to try out new ideas and say things my kids don’t yet understand.
Why the makeover? The year-old previous edition was looking cold and homely and I lacked enthusiam for building Yet Another WordPress Blog. Sure, I’d installed a jazzy new template a couple of Januaries back. But the layout wasn’t my work and I’d never really liked the colors.
And frankly I’d been itching to rebuild the site atop ExpressionEngine and take advantage of a few more of the CMS’s blog-like features that don’t normally find homes in my commercial projects. So, when time presented itself during one of the kids’ school vacations, I knocked this layout together. It’s a fixed-width layout, a little wider than my recent work, but pleasingly proportional.
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Reloaded: www.peapackreformed.org
April 4, 2008•
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Peapack Reformed Church is a 160-year old congregation that first used the web in 2000. Since then, the site has been redeveloped three times.
This update reflects the church’s growing confidence in the medium and its pastor’s greater understanding of the website’s role in her ministry. Our previous collaboration in 2004 resulted in a Mambo-based web portal with lots of features adopted from the church’s print-media periodicals.
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New: www.vandorenscholars.org
April 2, 2008•
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The Van Doren Scholarships are among New Jersey’s most prestigious academic recognitions, providing college tuition scholarships for Somerset County students who display a powerful thirst for learning.
And each year, more than a hundred worthy students apply for the merit awards, filing lengthy application forms, scholastic transcripts, and recommendation letters in a blizzard of paperwork over several weeks in March. The result of this scramble would be purely chaotic if Van Doren Trustee Allen Crossett weren’t always on top of his game. Despite his sincere efforts, every year a few incredibly talented applicants with All-Universe academic credentials, wise and compassionate hearts, and more friends in high places than kids deserve, fail to follow the directions and earn rude disqualifications. Que lastima!
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New: www.somersetgop.org
September 10, 2007•
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Somerset County’s Republican organization got a shiny new website in time for the 2007 general elections.
http://www.somersetgop.org is a giant leap forward for the organization. The group’s fourth or fifth incarnation on the web, this version integrates current calendar events and weblog-style news features and was intended to be maintainable by volunteers rather than a web professional.
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