Salmon & Schroeder Web Site
Salmon & Schroeder, Inc. provides environmental services and remediation for a wide range of industries helping them to navigate the regulatory hurdles placed in the way of businesses by the environmental community. S & S has worked with a wide variety of industries, from chemical manufacturing to pharmaceutical manufacturing to tire re-treading to motion picture film processing. Their greatest amount of experience is in the electronics manufacturing industry, but over the years they have been involved with a large number of processes and operations.
Arthur Baker Design converted their original static website to a WordPress-CMS-driven site giving them direct real-time control over their content. Thanks, John, for the opportunity to work with such a great company!
The Kitchen Cabinet.US Launches
TheKitchenCabinet.US
The all new conservative women’s organization site, TheKitchenCabinet.US was launched this August 17th. Their campaign is to mobilize 100,000 women to bring 10 friends each to the polls to deliver one-million conservative votes in November.
Unlike previous versions of the Cabinet, this site is built on the N2 CMS system created for the .net aspx file systems running on MicroSoft servers. Arthur Baker Design is providing creative and webmaster support for this site.
True North News & Commentary
True North News & Commentary is a conservative news and information portal for those of similar persuasions. Visit it often for the commentary of Lowell and Sonja Eddings Brown plus great videos, stills and links to the major conservative sites and blogs.
Arthur Baker Design was privileged to develop this site for the Browns with customized versions of the WordPress VodPod widget, Featurific and incoming RSS feeds, as well as incorporation of the Cincopa image/audio/video service.
The Kitchen Cabinet PAC Now Launched
Launching today, November 17th, 2009, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC is the supporting website for the recently created Conservative Womens’ Political Action Committee of the same name.
Designed to help give a strong voice to women throughout the US and its territories, commonwealths and military facilities all over the globe, The Kitchen Cabinet PAC features educational articles, contact information for The White House, Senate and House of Representatives and will soon offer a user-supplied nationwide directory of political and service organizations.
Arthur Baker Design worked with the PAC’s creator Sonja Eddings Brown to provide a rich user experience via the power of the WordPress engine as the CMS. The donation element of the site is from Blue Swarm.
If you are of like mind, or just want to gain insight into the realm of conservative politics — take a peek.
VaraRam Industries Complete Product Line Added To BTGMotoring.com Online Store
We have just completed adding the entire product line from VaraRam Industries to the BTGMotoring.com online store, including the Dodge Ram HEMI intake system that you see represented here. BTG Motoring became a VaraRam authorized retailer after its owner purchased the VaraRam Pontiac G8 intake for his personal G8 GXP. In their online mission statement VaraRam states:
Vararam Industries was created to bring true racing technology to the street, the most efficient air induction systems on earth. Our air induction systems produce more Power and Torque, offering you more real world performance than any of the other intake system out there, We’ve been tested to be the best, compared to the rest and each time VR comes out on top. VR systems are guaranteed to be the best or we will buy them back. We are true air induction specialists, we don’t sell hot air, just real world performance. We use the latest in aerodynamic technology and real world testing to produce our intake components. Most VR systems take up to a year to develop. We use a very tedious testing process of evaluating a particular applications true restrictions and reducing them to zero, we then try to force feed the engine or tune the system to a particular application. This maximizes the overall performance of that vehicle, for instance, Trucks. We made Torque and Power UNDER the curve our priority, not peak power, this maximizes the performance of this particular type of vehicle. Another example would be the GM LS line of engines, here we identified the point of restriction and created the VRX line of throttle bodies(coming soon…), these are all over 100% efficient and use a self contained venturi system to boost flow at every RPM range maximizing the overall power curve. At VR we are specialists and all of our products take time, so if you are in a hurry buy the other guys stuff, but if you want to set records and win races Run a VR, they are always worth the wait.
Their stuff certainly looks high-tech, and their flow-tests back up their claims! Since we get a commission on sales from this website ABDesign certainly hopes so! 
Silverlight & FireFox 3 — Getting It To Work
We’ve been working on a project that includes implementation of Slide.Show from Vertigo (see above images from Vertigo.com) and all was well and copacetic until this AM when I upgraded to FireFox ver. 3. All of a sudden I was being prompted to install Silverlight, and that was where it would stop — with the prompt over and over again, even after closing and restarting the browser.
A brief tour around the forums told me that the SL ver. 1.0 version of the SilverLight.js was the culprit as the way FireFox was handling certain connections changed from ver. 2.x. The SL 2 Beta 1 didn’t address all the problems, but it appears that SL 2 Beta 2 is the fix. You can download and install the SL 2 Beta 2 SDK and get a copy of the new SilverLight.js file, or you can get the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Silverlight.js script here at the Vertigo site. I had gone there to see if they had Slide.Show working for FF3 and sure enough, it was. The one caveat is that the full-screen feature doesn’t work once you install the SilverLight 2 plugin, which is necessary to access applications such as the Hard Rock Memorabilia site and NBC Olympics coverage. The developers are promising a fix sometime in the future, so keep an eye on this space for source code updates for Slide.Show.
BTW — check out Slide.Show as it’s quite the deal — Open Source, lots of features, and a Slide.Show Pro version when you want to incorporate video and such as well or use with Flash or Lightroom.
The NBC online coverage of the Olympics next month (Aug) will be via a custom SilverLight player that will deliver multiple ‘live’ event feeds as well as hundreds of available recorded feeds covering that two weeks — along with data overlays, blog overlays and more. They are showing preliminary competitions and events now. Way back in March, Adam Kinney posted some screen shots of the player and made this comment:
17 days of 34 sports which results in 2200 hours of video, shown live and then made available as video on-demand[.]
What can one say? – Wow!
Cheat-Seeking Missiles Relaunched
Cheat-Seeking Missiles Relaunched
Laer Pearce’s Blogger blog was relaunched today, 6/26/2008, at its own hosted URL, www.cheatseekingmissiles.com. Arthur Baker Design got the honor of doing the design work and the WP installation. Like with the A6B blog, we used a multiple placement of the WordPress loop in his template design to allow a newsletter type of placement of posts in a special area of his main page dependent upon which category that post is assigned to. We also implemented all the latest/greatest WP Ajax-powered plugins for the blog presentation and for the admin side. WP 2.5x is quite amazing — here at ABDesign we are very much jealous of Laer and all his new toys. Now to find the time to upgrade ourselves!
Congratulations Laer — Happy blogging!
Most Valuable Majors — Joomla/eCommerce Site
ABDesign is proud to have helped a young Los Angeles entrepreneur get his Joomla 1.5x powered website MostValuableMajors.com recreated, back up and running complete with an OSCommerse powered online store. Joomla is the cutting edge content management system powering multitudes of websites around the world giving the site owner/manager unparalleled ease of content additions and modifications.
Join MVM as they become the ESPN of Academia, focusing on those who are passionate in their pursuit of knowledge.
iMediaScience.com
iMediaScience is a newly launched Internet site for MediaSciences Partners, L.L.P. that will take their visitors on an exciting “subscription only” ride through such heavy concepts as Life After Death, new meanings found in careful examination of a Gainsborough painting and their seeing an impending “Collapse of America”.
Heady stuff for those that wish to pay for it!
New Airforce One Performance Video
The video created for Airforce One Performance Industries, Inc and displayed in their SEMA Show booth last October has been recut to a crisp 3-minute length and placed on YouTube.
ABDesign had about 40 seconds of actual video footage to work with, plus a selection of product images, from which a 5-minute showing was produced that highlighted their newest products, their unique features and wholesale programs. The new YouTube hosted version is directed toward the retail customer instead.
For SEMA, the video also acted as the main signage for the display. Although 2007 was the first year for AF1 being an exhibitor, the company is no stranger to the SEMA Show as this picture of the custom Hummer H2 intake shows, which was fitted to the Overhaulin’ showcase vehicle for that year.
The AF1 exhibit structure was formed from mandrel-bent polished stainless-steel tubing, the same materials used in the AF1 intake systems. The walls were alternately covered with their pleated, 8-ply blue filter material with short-pile black carpet used in the display areas to showcase the jewel-like qualities of the polished metal and blue filter baskets. For a small 10 x 20 foot exhibit, there was room to display fifteen complete intake systems, have a secure cabinet for the video player and literature as well as provide enough room to accommodate customers and work the booth.
ABDesign is proud to have been the designer of AF1’s SEMA exhibit and for being given the opportunity to create their promotional videos. Arthur Baker is also no stranger to designing for past SEMA shows, which will be showcased in future posts.
3-D sketch of AF1 SEMA exhibit