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!

As an alumni of the transportation design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Arthur Baker is partial to automotive imagery, and many of the ABDesign clients are affiliated with the automotive aftermarket; however, with the current emphasis on blogs and other industries, it’s time for ABDesign to showcase some of its other facets.

Stay tuned — we’re trying hard to get the cobbler’s children some shoes around here.

Article6blog.com was relaunched today, in a brand new format that uses the WordPress engine as a content management system as well as functioning as a traditional blog. Full audio and video podcasting is being implemented as the site will feature timely interviews with the movers and shakers in both the religious and political theaters.

Your obedient designer was the point guy on both the design and the extensive coding modifications of an available WordPress template. Definitely not just a style sheet overhaul, the main theme php files were severely worked over, with the famous WordPress loop redefined to allow multiple loops on a single page, each showing information from specific categories in different manners. Much appreciation goes out to the author at Perishable Press and his definitive tutorials on how to make multiple loops play nice inside WordPress.

Congrats to the bloggers, John Schroeder and Lowell Brown over at A6B for creating such an exciting blog premise, and thanks for trusting in ABDesign to rework your very special blog.

[The following is an announcement about a new section added to one of our clients websites and store.]

All of us at BTGMotoring.com are super excited to be able to offer this beautiful line of automotive themed home, office & garage accessories. Now you can express your love of performance and racing cars with unique expressions of your personal enthusiasm.

High-style items made from stainless-steel, machined alloys and carbon fiber showcase masterful design.

Just in time for Christmas & Holiday giving, what better gift could you find for that automotive enthusiast on your list?

See the entire line of AUTOart™ Design here, at BTGMotoring.com.

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We are starting on a new blog design for the DadsWWIILetters.com, which will feature over 400 love letters, telegrams and post cards from an Oklahoma sailor to his finance between June 1942 and the end of the war. An announcement page will go up this weekend and hopefully the site/blog will launch later this month, with periodic additions of letters, diary style. Stay tuned, as this one should turn out very sweet.

We recently did a freshening on the Blogger template for the SoCal Blogger’s Alliance group blog. This template was originally put together by former alliance member Jeff Smith, the author of the defunct blog, Proverbs Daily. We created the banner art and formatted everything a bit to help the blog titles stand out, and provide a bit easier navigation experience.

Here’s wishing much good luck and fortune to the SCBA. (adb)