Convoy is coming. Convoy is a collective, a group, a fleet. A fleet of designers, branders, and developers, poised to escort your company through the murky seas of today’s competitive marketplace, purveying and protecting your look and feel, your marketing assets, your business. On the web or on your business card, Convoy is presence, Convoy [...]
Read PostSince 1998 we have used many different Content Management Systems to power the websites we build. Over the years we have worked with Expression Engine, Drupal and Joomla, as well as having built our own CMS in the days before there were so many Open Source options available. In the last couple of years though [...]
Read PostA couple of weeks ago, we hosted the joint Matt Thomas Design and Category 4 Halloween Party here at our offices in Charlottesville. We were joined by clients, friends and several former Cat 4 employees. Being a Halloween party most people came dressed for the occasion. We gave away an iPod Touch for the most [...]
Read PostHave you ever wondered why the pictures you take with your digital camera look different on your computer than they looked on your camera’s display screen? And the colors are different again when you look at the same picture on a friend’s computer? The same is true for the displays on televisions, cell phones, ipads, [...]
Read PostCombine and minify JavaScript files. The settings page allows JavaScript files to be moved to header/footer. This plugin does not attempt to change image paths, so you will need to make image paths absolute (with or without domain).
Read PostAdd image attachments to a page and configure a slideshow. Uses the jQuery Cycle plugin. Slideshows can be added to a page automatically (top/bottom of content) or via shortcode or php function.
Read PostCombine and minify CSS and attempt to preserve image paths in the process. A settings area allows CSS URLs (for CDNs) to be specified.
Read PostWhen you pull events via RSS with the “The Events Calendar” plugin, the publication date in the RSS feed is set to the last updated date (post date) of the post/event. This simple plugin updates the WordPress post date with the start date of the event.
Read PostAggregate up to five RSS feeds and display the feeds via WordPress widget. Allows different output formats to be selected: news, events, and facebook.
Read PostWe’re pleased to announce the launch of our new Category 4 website! Like most of the sites we build, the new Cat4 site is built in WordPress. We’re using Typekit to render all the fonts so we can display the text exactly as we want it while remaining accessible to search engine indexing. We’ve also [...]
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