It’s February 5th and what’s more important than the Super Bowl?  WordPress!  Ok, not really, but WordPress is a pretty big deal everyday.  Today I want to write about WordPress templates.  One if the biggest benefits of using the WordPress platform is the easiness of swapping between different templates.  A template is basically a skin [...]

Web hosting is an important aspect of web development that a lot of people don’t really take the time to think about.  Having a reliable host that is secure, reliable, customer oriented, and has competitive pricing are all key attributes I look for when choosing a hosting service.  In the past, I’ve worked with Go [...]

Recently Tyndale’s web team—Josh Force, Sarn Phamornsuwana, Jamie Todd, and Marc Hester—launched a ­mobile version of THP’s corporate website in response to the growing use of mobile web browsing. You can view the website on your mobile device at tyndale.com or by going to mobile.tyndale.com on your desktop browser.
For the past few years the web team has [...]

Last few weeks have been extremely busy, but on a positive note, I’ve been doing a lot of WordPress development and experimenting.  Also, just a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend Word Camp Chicago 2011.  Met a lot of great people, made a few contacts, and learned a ton about WordPress!
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I’ve been hard at work creating a special e-commerce promotional website for Johnsen & Taylor, a partnership bookstore that Tyndale has a vested interest in. One of the task was to be able to calculate shipping cost from USPS and UPS given the destination and originating zipcodes as well as weight. This involves [...]

In the consumer mobile operating system arena there are many OSes to choose from such as Symbian, Blackberry RIM, Windows Mobile 7, and webOS.  All of these mobile operating systems pales in comparison to the two most popular, Apple iOS and Google Android holding 16% and 33% respectfully according to an April 2011 article from [...]

Here at Tyndale, the web team is hard at work on a few exciting projects consisting of creating websites tailored specific for mobile devices. As we familiarize ourselves into this new frontier, we’ve been discovering that even though many aspect of mobile web development is similar to creating websites for the desktop computer, there [...]

This week has been a roller-coaster week for anyone who’s in the publishing and book industry.  Apple started out the week unveiling it’s new subscription service Tuesday allowing publishers to sell subscriptions on a weekly, monthly, yearly, or other period of time, instead of selling each issue separately like a newsstand in addition to other [...]

I came across this phishing scam tactic on a news board recently and thought it was quite interesting.  Basically how it works is that criminals know that people browse the internet these days with multiple tabs open at the same time (yay for multitasking!).  Many times people would have sensitive websites opened in their inactive [...]

As some of you are aware, Google eBooks (aka Google Editions) debuted early last week and I wanted to learn more about it from a business standpoint as well as from a development standpoint.
The main core offering of Google eBooks is to allow a reader to be able to read and purchase digital books from [...]