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Alex Chousmith

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Toys Attack The Ninthlink Office

This was the scene when I walked in to the office today. As I did not set them up in a line like that, and I didn't see anyone else doing it either, I can only assume the toys organized on their own in the middle of the night, and are preparing for a full offensive. At least my cube is about as far away from them as possible. Sorry, Aimee and Ian. Hopefully this extra distance gives me time…
January 14, 2011
DesignDevelopmentMarketingPress / News

Our First Site Launch of 2011 : DataQuick, The Real Estate Information Experts

Six days in to the new 2011 year, we are pleased to announce another successful Ninthlink launch, as our redesign of DataQuick.com, home to the real estate Apartment Guide  information experts, is live! With Apartment Guide, people can see affordable apartments in great conditions. Using WordPress as the Content Management System of choice, the new site frames all the content from their old ASP site in a nice new skin, while adding some more functionality for Blog/News updates, PDF downloads,…
January 6, 2011
DevelopmentMarketingPress / NewsTips

Contact Form 7 Textarea Wordcount, by Ninthlink

When one of our clients asked that their site's Contact form have a Max Word limit on a "Comments" textarea / "text area" field, and that Contact Form was using the nice Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, the quickest way I knew to achieve this was to create a plugin to add a bit of extra functionality to how CF7 handles Text areas. Thanks to WordPress & Contact Form 7's use of hooks and filters, the plugin simply adds an…
December 30, 2010
CultureDesignDevelopmentMarketingPress / News

Ninthlink Praised in UCSD Alumni Annual Report

We had the pleasure of working on a facelift for the UCSD Alumni Website over this past year, and while it is true that a job well done is its own reward, it is also nice when the praise comes from the client, in the form of an article in their annual report that gets sent out to all Alumni, including my mom, who pointed it out via email to me this morning. "The fresh design from San Diego's Ninthlink…
December 14, 2010
DevelopmentTips

WordPress 3.0.2 Fixes Zero-Day Vulnerability

WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. Haiku has become traditional: Fixed on day zero One-click update makes you safe This used to be hard Keep your site secure : upgrade your WordPress today, if you did not already do it yesterday.
December 1, 2010