Stephen's Blog Posts

March 18th — Every Friday at DesignHammer, we take time after a long day of designing cutting edge websites to sit down and have a gourmet beer tasting. Today Paul chose Blue Point Brewing Company’s Toxic Sludge for us to sample. Toxic Sludge is a small batch Black IPA brewed to benefit birds hurt by oil spills.
Durham’s award winning web design agency, DesignHammer, is adding a new service to their roster and making a fun iPhone app for Durham’s Carolina Theatre. The 10 year old agency has been expanding services greatly recently and iPhone application development is the newest in offerings for the increasingly mobile world.
March 11th — Every Friday at DesignHammer, we take time after a long day of designing cutting edge websites to sit down and have a gourmet beer tasting. Today Frank chose Rogue’s Chatoe Single Malt Ale for us to sample. Chatoe Single Malt Ale is part of Rogue's GYO (Grow Your Own) line of craft beers which feature locally grown barley and hops.
WordPress as a platform is an elegant solution for content management. While it is generally search engine friendly, unfortunately it does not provide fine-grain control for search engine optimization (SEO) out of the box. All In One SEO Pack fills that void. For those who are just jumping in, here's some tips for using this excellent plugin.
March 15th — After several DesignHammer team members returned from traveling to the midwest we took time after a long day of designing cutting edge websites to sit down, have a gourmet beer tasting and swap travel stories. David selected New Belgium's Dunkelweiss from the Lips of Faith series for us to sample.
DrupalCon Chicago is over and I'm back in Durham with the DesignHammer crew. It was a great conference; it's the first DrupalCon that DesignHammer has participated in and it won't be the last. Here are some notes about my impressions of DrupalCon and how it affects DesignHammer.