What we’ve been up to lately

Here’s what’s been going on at Livewire in the last few weeks – because, well, why not? It’s a blog ,isn’t it? Finishing up the LDM iphone app – which has been a big project that has presented us with some unique challenges. The Android version is likely

Preloading Images with Jquery

There are times when preloading images is an important step in keeping your site/page/program running smoothly. This is especially true in the era of mobile. Here’s a cute little snippet that does just that. function preload(yourarrayOfImages) { $(yourarrayOfImages).each(function(){ $(‘<img/>’)[0].src = this; }); } preload([ ‘img/image1.jpg’, ‘img/image2.jpg’, ‘img/image3.jpg’ ]);

What’s New For 2015

Really, we’re not all that sure. We’ll go where the winds blow us but we do have some exciting projects to start out the year right. January will be a big month for us here at Livewire and we hope it only goes up from there. We’re glad

Using Red In Website Design

A key component of website design is color, and many designers choose the color red in particular. Red is a passionate, vivid color that may elicit strong feelings and emotions, making it a fantastic choice for designing a strong, compelling website. These are several justifications on why red

Answerhub versus WordPress

Recently we worked on a project with intent to use AnswerHub as the primary vehicle for user interaction. After spending some time in AnswerHub’s admin we discovered that they don’t provide anything that you cannot accomplish with easy under the WordPress hood. While AH supplies you with a

New Web Program: Brain Development Maps

Creating braindevelopmentmaps.org was a great opportunity to work on a very interesting site; Shirley came to Livewire with very specific needs. There is nothing ‘typical’ or ‘standard’ about this website, it is in a word, unique. Braindevelopmentmaps.org allows users to view highly detailed brain mapped images online. These

Review: WordPress Business Directory ★ ★ ★

June 15, 2014

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★ ★ ★

Features V1.8

Premium Membership (Paypal)
Location Based Search
Internationalization
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3 Stars out of 5

This is a wordpress plugin
We took off one point for poor style and another for some poor code.
First, we understand that it’s ultimately up to the user to style their site but this system should come with corresponding elements and it’s own styling user interface.
As far as the code we had to do quite a bit of editing to get things to work just right. Syntax errors and errors in the admin area set us back quite a bit.

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