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Pilot Car Company Sites, Custom Packages, and Specialization

By BBoyd • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Projects, Web Design & Development

Thanks to my dad’s hearty promotions of my work on his business site, AllAmericanPilotCarServices, I’ve had quite a bit of interest in my work from other pilot car companies. I’ve enjoyed working with Call4PilotCars.com, and I am doing some work, currently in progress, for some others. But I don’t want to divulge names until the [...]



Custom Name Servers

By BBoyd • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Blog, Web Design & Development

I don’t know what took me so long to do this, but I finally got down to registering custom nameservers for my hosting services today.
No one should notice anything different, the switch went off seamlessly already. But if you’re a client, or a whois freak like me, you’ll see that my (and my clients’) [...]



WordPress 2.5 Upgrades All Around

By BBoyd • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: WordPress

I think I can speak for most of us who have used the public release of 2.5 (aka, logged into the admin area and used it) when I say WOOOHOOOOO!
Automatic plugin updates (and I am assuming, thus, auto WP updates too), a simple media manager with a gallery creator built in, and a much cleaner [...]



Congrats LBJ Winterguard

By BBoyd • Mar 30th, 2008 • Category: Chelsea, Featured, LBJ Winterguard

Yesterday I drove down to Houston to watch Chelsea and her winterguard perform at the 2008 Texas Color Guard Circuit Colorguard and Percussion State Championships and got a real treat. Our team placed 3rd in their section and 9th overall in their unit, and performed a show that left the audience slack-jawed. It was [...]



I am an idiot.

By BBoyd • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Blog

Boy do I feel dumb.
I’ve played with WordPress for maybe four years now; and holding back on developing some WordPress themes of my own - or thinking I was holding back…because of something I imagined about a file I didn’t even bother to look at. And it appears I’m not alone. Every theme I’ve downloaded, [...]



LBJ Winterguard places 5th at Hendrickson!

By BBoyd • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: LBJ Winterguard

Rock on Jags!
I unfortunately had to miss this performance due to an ocular migraine. But the team gained 20 points in scores and placed higher than they have in three years. The hard work this year is really paying off!
Check out the video…



Just doing it.

By BBoyd • Feb 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog

Being a perfectionist works out great in many ways, most of the time. But when it comes to my own work, I think I allow it to really stand in my way at times. I can’t say how many drafts of articles and information, templates and stylesheets I’ve put together for my own site, only [...]



Brainbench Brain Fry

By BBoyd • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog

So, in an effort to increase my marketability and skills I’ve joined a few skills testing/benchmarking websites that allow you to study and test for skill sets, and then share those test results with prospective clients and employers online. Expertrating.com and Brainbench.com are the two I’m focusing on currently. Brainbench offers a number of standard [...]