- Jun 7 2012 - 9:00am
highchairdesign (J. Hogue)
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Design geek / Font aficionado / Web nerd / Entreprenuer / Slum lord
Recent Content
Title: Responsive CSS3 blog design for Endeca eBusiness Facets (Forum)
Submitted: February 7th, 2011 - 4:56pm
Oomph – a ten person web development and design firm in Providence – just helped launch a new blog for Endeca, a search and business intelligence company in Boston, MA.
The WordPress theme features a flexible (literally) layout based on CSS3 media queries. A detailed blog post about the process can be found on the Oomph website.
Responsive design with CSS3 Media Queries, from the Oomph blog
Title: TRAC Builders redesigned and launched (Forum)
Submitted: April 29th, 2010 - 11:58am
Bill Tracy and his team at TRAC Builders in Johnston, RI, recently redesigned and revamped their web site with help from highchair designhaus of Pawtucket. An updated interface and portfolio of projects around the state. Contact forms for subcontractors and potential job applicants. Check it out to see more of TRAC's – and Highchair's – work.
Title: Updated Magma Design site with Blog (Forum)
Submitted: June 3rd, 2009 - 3:55pm
Just finished and launched an update to a previous client of ours, Magma Design Group, a landscape architect firm in Pawtucket. Their new site features some slick portfolio treatments as well as a blog talking about some of the projects that they embark on.
Title: New Steel Yard website (Forum)
Submitted: May 14th, 2009 - 9:54am
Brand-new website for local non-profit The Steel Yard.
The culmination of almost two years worth of work... Completely dynamic content management system and real-time syncing with Filemaker Server to manage courses, registrations and waitlisting. A custom jQuery/AJAX shopping cart experience integrated with a simple PayPal account. Staff and artist blogs, events calendar, news and announcement pages, complete staff and instructor contact tables with bios and dynamic lists of the classes they are currently teaching... Plus, hey, we think it looks pretty cool.
This project was a collaboration between the Steel Yard and visual designers Lauren Holt, Josie Morway, J Hogue and James Re with programming expertise from Peter Landry, assisted by J Hogue and James Re. Special thanks to Jonathan Stark for consulting about FileMaker integration.
Title: Some new Sites from Highchair (Forum)
Submitted: March 27th, 2009 - 12:06pm
Here are some things that we have been working on:
Title: Not entirely unrelated- NYC Seed Fund (Forum)
Submitted: March 27th, 2009 - 12:03pm
A good Friday rant about the newly announced NYC Seed fund. mind the language in this one.
It's interesting, though. NYC wants to fund 10 start-ups with 200k. I imagine that 200k would go a lot farther in our lil state than in the City. And this guy is right: don't just fund like you would have done in the nineties – people will go out and get the latest Herman Miller desk and top-of-the-line MacBook before they even get to Step 2 in their business plan (Step 1 was the get the Seed money). Fund something that more people can take advantage of, like a fully networked Co-Working space.
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I just retook the test today (I also took it yesterday) and while my upload speed is about the same, my download speed was half of what it was yesterday. I am on the Cox business network, so I shoul dbe getting speeds around 10mb, but today I got five.
Are you encouraging people to take it more than once so you can average out local service provider gluts? Say, yesterday when I took the test there weere fewer people using Cox at the time, so my results were higher than today, when maybe there were more users on the service.
http://twitter.com/artinruins
Will post a variety of musings, mainly about design, providence architecture, typography and other random things that come across my virtual desk.
ArtinRuins.com
Highchairdesign.com
theGrantAt250.com
Whoa. I know I sound like a hater, but, did you hire a designer to do that website? Holy crap. A bunch of photoshop effects, logos, and auto-playing videos one on top of another? Geez. Where do I even begin to expound on the problems with that UI.
Maybe I'm just jealous that I live and work in Pawtucket and won't be able to be part of your district. But when you want to innovate, you better make sure you know who your audience is. Most designers are going to run screaming after seeing that homepage, shake their heads, and think to themselves that Providence is using designers like they used artists during the "Renaissance". Pretty soon their cool loft-style digs in the Jewelry District will be too expensive to live and work in, and more Bostonites who think Providence is "funky" will snatch those spaces up.
Ok, this is a tear, I know. It's easy to rip things apart online like this. If you want to involve the creative community, I just hope that you are prepared for criticisms like this. Though I may sound harsh, I am pretty sure I am not the only one who is skeptical of City government getting involved in promoting ONE sector of the workforce for the gain of all. Did you even talk to the group that is already promoting design nationwide, the AIGA? There is a strong RI chapter that should be involved in most of what your Design District is proposing.
Anyway, good luck with the district. It's a tough task to unite creative people.
Yeah... well, this is GoDaddy server, so the support is short of stellar. The security as well. I am recommending that the client move the site somewhere else, so I hope that helps. I haven't had any non-Go Daddy sites get hacked (yet).
Again, thanks for helping me suss this out. I was concentrating on the way they passed an id string to the Google listing, and didn't even look on the server to see if there were extra files there. Now that the files are no longer there, the click on the Google listing gets me an internal server error, which is better than the wrong page.
Wow... I'll download that plug in. Thanks for the note.
Any ideas as to how I can change this or protect against it in the future?
I found this page helpful:
http://clsc.net/research/google-302-page-hijack.htm
But the implementation of the base href meta tag seems to have done nothing, as the site was easily hacked again after I implemented it.
I just used FireBug to find the referrer string that seems to be feeding the unwanted content:
http://75.127.109.21/f.php?keyword=pearl+street+lofts&subaff=246394&ref=http%3A//www.pearlstreetlofts.com/&rand=0.32726817914790385
We have kind of already done this: http://www.thegrantat250.com
There are 16 spaces all together. One of them is a cafe. A few of them are retail. The bulk of them are design-related businesses of one or two people each. There is also a small art gallery. We have been open for a year. There has been some collaboration already, between businesses to work on larger projects. There is a recording studio with a vocal booth that does mainly hip hop artists but that can also record for web voice overs. We have an architect who has hired one of the designers to do a new website. We have designers that use the silkscreen studio's offerings for apparell printing and poster printing. All in all, it's worked pretty well.
We finally have a shared conference room ready to go for people. Internet is included in the rent, and WiFi is available.