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Archive for 2011

How You Sell Matters – Our Story

How You Sell Matters – Our Story

Sometimes, it’s not just what you’re selling, but how you’re selling it that really matters. Way back in 2008, we decided to launch a WordPress themes club called Spectacu.la.  We had a couple of nice blogging themes that had been targeted for a marketplace, but as that marketplace got canned we found we had nowhere to sell them.  We figured… continue reading

A Stroll Down Hope Street

A Stroll Down Hope Street

Here at interconnect/it we consider ourselves privileged to work in one of the greatest cities in the world. Liverpool has of course always been a cultural and creative hub, but the last few years has seen a number of creative businesses proliferate around the culturally rich “Hope Street Quarter.” Our offices on Brownlow Hill are at the edge of this area close… continue reading

Announcing Spots

Announcing Spots

Imagine that you’re building a theme, and in various places in that theme you have small elements that you’d just love to content manage.  It could be items in a footer, in the header, or for use as widgets.  Things like a copyright notice, a credit line, some free form spaces and so on. In the past, coding for this… continue reading

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th August 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 25th August 2011

Heck – again, a little note from me about how quickly these events come around. But they’re great – we all enjoy them. This month we have the excellent local designer Edward Ridding coming to talk about design. There’s also the usual Q&A and technical assistance to hand, as well as a wide range of WordPress developers and know it… continue reading

Foundation Trust Governor’s Association Goes Live With WP & bbPress

Foundation Trust Governor’s Association Goes Live With WP & bbPress

We recently developed a new site for the Foundation Trust Governor’s Association (or simply FTGA) which allowed for an easy self-hosted and self-managed yet sophisticated website. Social Structure The site uses bbPress and ties together a number of custom functions. We’ll be following up with a full write-up in due course for our Portfolio, but for now, why not take… continue reading

Informa Telecoms & Media Corporate Site

Informa Telecoms & Media Corporate Site

We’ve had a pretty busy few months here at interconnect/it and, as a consequence, we’ve failed to tell the world about a large number of website’s we’ve built recently.

Here’s one we built earlier. Hope you like it.

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 28th July 2011

Liverpool WordPress Interest Group (SWIG) Meeting – 28th July 2011

Amazing how quickly these things come around. Consequently, apologies for the late announcement of this event’s agenda and ticketing. Must try harder for next month, but it’s been very hectic. This month we can look forward to Lydia Bates and her talk on writing for the web, as well as the usual Q&A, show and tell and pub trip. You… continue reading

And so I depart…

On the 5th August, it will be my last day at Interconnect/IT before I disappear to have my little bundle of crying and pooping joy. This blog post has been written with the purpose of both introducing myself (even if it only to say goodbye for now!) but to also show my appreciation of the great people here at Interconnect… continue reading

WordCamp UK 2011 – Tasting the Rainbow

Let’s start with a story. In 2008, WordCamp UK started off in Birmingham.  The concept was great – a WordPress related conference that would take place in a new city each year.  And so it was.  Good talks, good people, good fun.  It doesn’t get much better. Year two was Cardiff.  Year three, Manchester.  And this year, 2011, WordCamp UK… continue reading

Dropdown Menus Plugin for WordPress

When designing for small screens every pixel counts. One of the common difficulties we face as web designers is how to reduce the amount of pixels some large (or potentially large) constructs like menus take up. One solution is to use a dropdown menu. Until now there wasn’t an easy way to make a menu that you manage via the admin panel into a dropdown.