Posted by mbos on Sep 29, 2009 in
Design & Development,
Mutiny Designs,
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Michigan Global Entrepreneurship Week
We just completed the site design and development for the Michigan Global Entrepreneurship Week initiative.
We met Joe, the owner and founder, at an Ann Arbor Spark meeting. We had worked on his company website for Mobile Consulting, Inc, and he asked us to setup a site for MIGEW as well.
Joe had already had a design layout for migew.com, and we discussed how best to set up a website on short notice. After some consideration and discussion, we recommended that the site for migew.com be a WordPress blog. This would enable the site to be setup quickly, would allow for quick and easy updates, and also automatically incorporate a content management system. By customizing a WordPress template to match the originally desired design, we got the look that Joe was hoping for. Also, by utilizing some WordPress plugins, we were able to gain the functionality that he was looking for as well.
Please feel free to check out MIGEW.com and see how you can participate! Also take a peek at our design services and portfolio at Mutiny Designs.
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Posted by mbos on Sep 23, 2009 in
Design & Development,
Mutiny Designs,
News 
Mobile Consulting Inc.
We just completed the site design and development for Mobile Consulting Inc. Mobile Consulting is a company that provides a service to help you lower your cell phone costs. By negotiating ethically with your current carrier, Mobile Consulting can lower your monthly cell phone bill, as well as save you money on device and plan upgrades. Mobile Consulting offers a 100% money back guarantee with their services 
We met Joe, the owner and founder, at an Ann Arbor Spark meeting. We got to talking, and matched up our needs, resulting in MutinyWare being selected to complete the design and development of the website.
When coming up with the design for mobileconsultinginc.com, we wanted the site to be bright, bold, friendly and welcoming. By utilizing fresh, bold colors and graphics, we have achieved this goal. We also customized their blog to match the site, and reworked their logo slightly to co-ordinate as well.
Please feel free to check out Mobile Consulting and their services. You can save money on your cell phone bill as well! Also, don’t forget to visit Mutiny Designs to see some of our work, and what we could possibly do to boost your online presence.
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Posted by mbos on Jul 2, 2009 in
General I have a bad habit of tinkering with my blog here and there. Adding in new features, checking out new plugins and so forth. Well, last week, this came back to bite me.
I had input some code that would make “related” posts appear on each post page. All of a sudden, the entire blog went blank. I couldn’t access the admin panel, nor view the blog at all! To compound matters, this occured at the precise moment when our database servers suffered some response issues. So all of our sites were down for a few minutes.
Of course, finding out the the servers were having issues, I assumed that was the problem. A few minutes later, after the server issue was resolved and all of our sites were back up and running, I went back in to continue work on the blog. Everything for the blog was still blank! I tried re-updating, uploading all of the files from the source again, to no avail.
I went into our theme folder under wp-content/theme/ and removed the code I had input from the functions.php file, and the blog returned. So did the admin panel. Then today, I came in to write a post, and found that my admin panel had disappeared again! Doing another quick search, I found that if your functions.php page has any empty lines at top or bottom, this will occur. I went in to check the file, and sure enough there was a blank line at the end of it. I removed the offending line, uploaded and voila! The admin panel returned.
Now, luckily this was a relatively easy fix for us, because we are pretty comfortable in modifying php files. However, how would this impact a user who has no clue about how to do this, or even what any of this means? It seems to me there should be some code somewhere in WP that tells the system to ignore empty lines….seeing that it causes such a problem.
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