http://vernalcreative.com Creative and Strategy Services for Progressive Organizations Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:25:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just made my first attempt to publish to Vernal using Google Docs. Man, what a rats nest of code that thing created. Ouch. Plus, it didn't even carry over the title of the post. Nightmare. This post is coming out of MarsEdit. Seems relatively harmless if not nice. http://vernalcreative.com/entries/publishing-to-a-blog-from-google-docs/ Here is a list of the plugins I used to make in order to stretch the powers of Wordpress to that of a very feature-rich content management system that maintains the simplicity and user-friendliness of a blog. You can see the results ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/conversion4/ During the Craft Emergency Relief Fund conversion from Drupal 4.7 to Wordpress 2.1 I had decided to build out the entire information architecture of the site using the Wordpress Pages system. In the original site the architecture was built upon a hybrid system of diverse content types (primarily pages, stories, and ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/57/ In the January 2007 issue of Wired magazine there is a rare gem of an article: How to disable the newly required RFID chips in US passports (a tech that has privacy concerns up the wazoo and has already been hacked across the pond). What makes this a gem is the ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/fighting-technology-with-technology/ In my quest to convert CERF to Wordpress (see previous entry), I have run across the best menu manager I have ever seen. The secondary navigation spec for CERF states that a few things must happen: When a user is visiting a site area (About Us, for example) the name of that ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/drupal-wordpress-migration-part-ii-the-ultimate-wordpress-menu-manager/ Trading bulk for simplicity I have begun work converting an existing Drupal site to Wordpress in the name of simplicity, sustainability, and cost savings. I've long preached the content-management power of Wordpress as an effective and sustainable solution for small to mid-sized organizations. This should be a good demonstration of what it ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/its-on-a-site-conversion-from-drupal-47-to-wordpress-20/ It's official. As of today I have left the company I co-founded over six years ago as a wild experiment in organizing a tech cooperative across geographical boundaries. There is a lot to say about it. I first question I am getting from people is why are you leaving Eggplant? You ... http://vernalcreative.com/entries/today-i-join-the-eggplant-alumni-association/ Hellerwork International is an umbrella organization for independent bodywork practitioners specializing in the Hellerwork practice. We created a standards-compliant and beautifully crafted website for Hellerwork International that effectively meets it's goal of being beautiful, useful, and communicative. http://vernalcreative.com/portfolio/hellerwork/ Rural Vermont is a nonprofit farm advocacy group here in our hometown of Montpelier, VT. In the early part of 2005 we worked closely with them to create a standards-based website and content management system that would look sharp on new computers but gracefully downgrade on the older computer equipment ... http://vernalcreative.com/portfolio/changethis/ Chelsea Green Publishing is a Vermont-based publisher of books on sustainable living and, more recently, progressive politics. They are the publisher of the renowned book Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff. The ever-expansive chelseagreen.com sports a Vernal design and quite a lot of strategy as well. http://vernalcreative.com/portfolio/chelseagreen/