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Veign’s second Visual Studio 2010 giveaway.

It’s very simple to get entered. Just leave a comment on this blog post saying why you want Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and what you’ll do with it. That’s it.

On October 31st Veign will choose a winner

Here’s what I am giving away: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio…

Please consider following Veign on Facebook too.

–CLOSED–

Congrats to Kevin Spencer

Koper Equine is the first website to use WordPress as a base for an eCommerce solution.

Koper Equine has developed a unique product line for the equine industry.  This is something that anyone into horses would think is cool.  Check it out, pass it along.

Link: http://koperequine.com

Very customizable with a modern feel to it. Finally WordPress decided to update the default theme.

Rose Bay Brand Oysters is a site I did in an hour (from install to completion) inside of WordPress just to see how fast I could get something completed that looked clean and professional.

Details posted in my other blog post:
http://www.veign.com/blog/2010/07/14/…

FYI: This is my latest project. Very exciting…

Link: http://openmenu.com/

This blog is now working off the lastest version of WordPress, WordPress 3.0. Very nice. Very impressed at how each version of WordPress it gets better and better.

Without getting into what’s better, I’ll just say that I’m glad they lightened the Admin area – was too dark before.

A better blogging platform means I can bring better content without adding overhead (in the way of time).  This is one of the reasons Blogger slowed this blog down – it’s a poor platform for anything more then an occasional blogger.

Is there anything you would like to see?  What type of posts would you like to see Veign make?

Open Menu Search is now online at its final home at Open Menu.  lets you search for a restaurant serving the food you’re looking to eat.  For the first time a search engine can drill down through a restaurants information to the menu and menu items.

Open Menu Search: http://openmenu.com/search/

Mobile Versions: http://openmenu.com/search/m/

I thought I would take the time to post about what Veign offers to its clients:

• Professionally designed websites – designed today, built for the future
• Website optimization services – an optimized site is a better performing site
• Website development – from database’s to forums, if you’ve seen it, Veign™ can develop it for you
• eCommerce solutions – need an online store or just looking to integrate Paypal

Do you have a web design or development project you would like Veign to work on?  Then please contact us and lets talk.

Design Portfolio: http://www.veign.com/design-portfolio.php

Development Portfolio: http://www.veign.com/development-portfolio.php

Open Menu™ will pave the way to ensure a uniform standard exists for restaurants to store their menus and a single way to share your menu.

This is a pet project of mine.  This time is now to a have a uniform standard exists for the way restaurants store and share their menus over the internet.  By doing this developers can build applications that interact with menus, similar to what Open Menu Search will demonstrate.

Link: http://openmenu.com/

1. Go to the SnagIt Giveaway link
2. Review the new features of SnagIt
3. Leave a comment on the blog post and you’re entered

Good luck to all.

–Giveaway Closed – Congratulations to Mike Ebersole–

Just leave a comment in this post on what you like about SnagIt v10 and you’re entered.  Random drawing will be on Friday (May 21st) around 5:30pm EST.

(please leave your email address so Veign can contact you if you win – use a format like me-AT-domain.com to protect against email harvesters)

The all-in-one capture is a great new feature that makes v10 well worth the upgrade (or purchase if you’ve never used SnagIt).

Snagit: http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

Free trial: http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp

In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn’t.

Article Link: http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/…

Here’s Veign’s PHP class for checking a URL or array of URLs

MobilePress is a free open source WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress is flexible in that it allows you to customize your mobile presence by creating your own themes, creating themes for specific mobile browsers (iPhone and generic devices) and also allowing you to decide when to display your mobile blog.

If you want to add your Google Analytics code into the themes just:

1. Open the themes folder under the MobilePress plugin
2. Locate the footer.php file (you’ll have to open both for the default and the iPhone version)
3. Copy and Paste your Google Analytics code just before the closing BODY tag
4. Save both footer files and you’re done.

Link: http://mobilepress.co.za/

Give it a try on your mobile device. iPhone users even get a special theme just for them. All you have to do is visit this URL and we will detect your mobile device. No special URL to remember.

Blog post will come in the future talking about the plugin used.

Veigns block is back in action with its new home rooted into WordPress. Soon, well have a new template that uses the Veign brand but for now well just stick with this template.

New blog, new and exciting posts coming…