McClintic Design Inc.

WashingtonGoneWrong.com goes live

toddmcc — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:17:14 +0000

Today McClintic Design Inc. released WashingtonGoneWrong.com which is a blogging site created for J & B Political Novelties of Colorado Springs, Colorado. This site is a political blogging site created to voice opinions about the current political climate in Washington. Everyone has am opinion about what is going on in Washington whether you love it or hate it. Read their opinion and voice whether you agree or disagree. While we may not agree with all their political opinions, we love how the design turned out and feel it thoroughly gets their view across to the visitor.

JoshTiteCustoms.com goes live

toddmcc — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:07:54 +0000

McClintic Design Inc created a new website for JoshTite Customs, a Colorado Springs based fabricator of custom Jeep Parts. The new site is built on our MDSM web content management platform and is running the latest 3.1 version. The site features a photo gallery, quote form as well as several other custom components build specifically for Josh Tite. McClintic Design owns several JoshTite products and we can speak from experience that they are quality made products that will probably last longer than the vehicle you have them on.

BigMouthNovelties.com goes live

toddmcc — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:05:35 +0000

Today McClintic Design Inc. launched the bigmouthnovelties.com eCommerce site today. BigMouth Novelties is a political novelties site selling T-Shirts and bumperstickers for politically minded individuals. McClintic Design worked with J&B Political Novelties to produce the site that utilizes Zencart as it’s shopping cart application. McClintic Design created the website design that utilizes Flash and other artwork provided by J&B.

Firefox 3.5 Released

toddmcc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:28:39 +0000

Yesterday, the mozilla project released Firefox 3.5. The most exciting feature of this new release is open video in my opinion. I’ll be spending some time looking into how to create this new format so I can look to releasing this on websites in the future. Unfortunately until Microsoft supports it, I’ll probably have to wait.

PilatesConnectionCS.com launched

toddmcc — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:05:53 +0000

McClintic Design Inc. launched PilatesConnectionCS.com for Lisa Miller this morning at 8am. Lisa asked McClintic Design Inc. to create a unique site to showcase her expertise and passion with the Pilates exercise methodology. McClintic Design worked with Lisa on the entire process as well as a photoshoot in her studio to get photos that showcased what her studio is all about. The result was a very dynamic site utilizing image fading techniques and standard CSS based design.

Building a Content Management System

toddmcc — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:49:03 +0000

Since 2005, McClintic Design Inc. has been building a Content Management System (CMS). During that time we’ve run into pitfalls and the inevitable scope creep that a development project can become.

Our initial goal was simple:

Create a content management system that anyone can use and taylor it to web designers that just need to get a site out and don’t want to spend weeks or years learning the platform that they are building on.

We spent months working with Joomla and Drupal and while both have their merits, most normal people don’t need that much functionality. Most webmasters just need to get in, modify a page or two, and get out. They don’t need to spend weeks reading a book on how to use their chosen CMS.

Our CMS (currently called MDSM for McClintic Design Site Management) was built on PHP and MySQL and is currently running on several commercial websites and has several in the works. MDSM is a great solution for businesses that just don’t want to pay a designer or webmaster to modify one page a month. MDSM also includes the ability to extend it’s functionality with a module framework that can assist with functionality like Photo Galleries, testimonial capture and approval, and will soon have it’s own blog module.

While MDSM isn’t currently free, we’re not ruling out a free version at some point. Right now we have to get several design issues resolved and streamline (okay, make more OOP compliant) and get some installer/updater features working. Since most people are happy that the site functions and shows the information about their business, we’re always striving to make it easier to install and manage modules and templates.

If you are interested in finding out more about our CMS project, have a look at http://mdsm.mcclinticdesign.com and feel free to contact us for a quote.

Shameless Earthday plug!

toddmcc — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:47:16 +0000

For Earth Day 2009 I thought I’d make a shameless plug for my “green” web design and development company. Green? you asked, well my friend, McClintic Design Inc. uses almost 60% recycled code on all it’s projects. Think of how many trees are saved by that recycled code! That recycling effort saves approximately 1 tree every 2 years! Imagine how many trees will be saved if all development shops used recycled code!

In all honesty, my company is probably not as green as we should be. I do only use 1 ream paper every 6 months or so but I could be better about shutting down my computers when I’m done for the evening. The hosting company I use does purchase “green” energy credits to keep their servers running so I guess that’s something.

If anything, go plant a tree or volunteer at a school (which is what we’re doing today) so you can stress to the next generation the importance of conservation, recycling and generally being more responsible than we’ve been.

Happy Earth Day!

Internet Explorer 8 Released!

toddmcc — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:53:35 +0000

Thanks Microsoft! For giving us yet another reason to finally get rid of that lame excuse for a web browser Internet Explorer 6. Now if you could only make IE8 cause all those people still running IE 6 to have to reformat their harddrives so it can be gone once and for all!

McClintic Design Launches MyHealthHoliday.com

toddmcc — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:59:09 +0000

On February 23, 2009 McClintic Design Inc. Launched MyHealthHoliday.com for Health Holiday LLC. Health Holiday LLC. specializes in Medical Tourism which basically means that if you need a medical procedure, you can travel to other countries like India, Mexico, and Spain and get those procedures done at a fraction of what they cost to have done in the United States. If you or someone you know is in need of a medical procedure and they are not sure how to pay for it, I urge you to check out MyHealthHoliday.com.

Ramps+ Site goes live

toddmcc — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:35:01 +0000

McClintic Design Inc. launched Ramps-plus.com last week! Ramps+ specializes in ramp installations for people with special needs. They also install handicap accessories to augment existing residences. Ramps+ is an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) supporter. McClintic Design also created the Ramps+ logo and business cards. Thanks to Ramps+ for selecting McClintic Design Inc. for your graphic and web design needs.