Utah Web Design Blog

Vince Stinson, a partner and Creative Director at Red Olive Design , started a photography project a few years back as a hobby. A hobby that quickly grew into an Internet stock photography resource for metal and rust photos. Being the brand minded individual he is he couldn’t simply just have a photography site, he aptly named the project Rust Fetish . If you are interested in using any of the photography on that site please contact Vince and make your request known. If you would like to see some of his work stop by our office in South Jordan Utah, we have an entire wall of framed rust fetish shots. As with all the guys at RedOlive, we dabble in a little of everything. Check out the site and submit your feedback.

Here is a link to the old site for those nostalgic few.

Ever wonder how to get rid of that annoying dotted border around html links? Well, there is a way and it’s not really that hard and we’ll show you how. Luckily IE 7 fixed the problem but it still shows up in IE 6 and Firefox. All you have to do is add an attribute call “onFocus” with the value of “this.blur()”to your link tag (<a></a>).

For example a normal link such as:
<a href="/contact-red-olive.html" mce_href="/contact-red-olive.html" ><img src="/images/button-contact-red-olive.png" mce_src="/images/button-contact-red-olive.png" alt="Contact Red Olive Design" name="Contact" width="124" height="64" border="0"></a> will have the dotted border in IE7 and Firefox.

But if you add this onfocus="this.blur()" to it, it won’t like this:
<a href="/contact-red-olive.html" mce_href="/contact-red-olive.html" onfocus="this.blur()"><img src="/images/button-contact-red-olive.png" mce_src="/images/button-contact-red-olive.png" alt="Contact Red Olive Design" name="Contact" width="124" height="64" border="0"></a>

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Contact: Matthew Moeller
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RED OLIVE DESIGN LAUNCHES ALL NEW WEBSITE AFTER 4 YEARS!

Red Olive Design, a Utah web design services company launched a new corporate website last week. Besides the updated look, the website offers much more information and is far easier to use compared to the last version. There is an all new corporate blog site setup to help clients and other Internet searchers find information on not only helpful web developer tips but a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the company. Dynamic news updates and RSS feeds to help make the information more accessible too.

Red Olive also introduced a new project management system where clients can keep tabs on their project during the development stages every step of the way, with email updates every time there is file posted, a note entered, or a milestone met. One more way Red Olive is striving to exceed the expectations of clients and open channels communication.

The new website also offers an updated portfolio showcasing some recent work in print, web design, interactive, and identity. Stop by redolivedesign.com and check out the latest updates. In the coming weeks we will be adding all the new radio creative section highlighting our most recent radio spots produced.

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For more information go to http://www.redolivedesign.comor call Justin Wilde at
1-866-RED-OLIVE

Utah Safety Council hires Red Olive, A web design firm in Utah, to revamp the famous public safety web site. Many Utahns have come to know the site we all go to for drivers education and safety information, well it’s time for an upgrade. Not only with the new website be great looking but the information will be organized by the Red Olive usability experts for scannability and ease of use. There are sheer volumes of information on this site so laying out an effective navigation structure will be key to it’s success.

I was having a hell of a time getting the spellchecker in WordPress 2.2.2 to work properly and could not find a solution online anywhere so I decided to post what worked for me.  Two hours of searching online resulted in nothing so when all else fails you are left to your own devices.  To preface this post I am using IIS6 and PHP5.  Everytime you click the spell check icon you get the error “could not execute AJAXcall, server didn’t return valid a xml” .

How to fix this error on a win32 box:

1. Crack open your php.ini file and uncomment extension = php_pspell.dll, and make sure it actually exists in your ext/ dir.
2. Download the aspell installer from aspell.net (win32 version) and the dictionary installer (en)
3. Now the funny thing is the win32 installer files appear to have inccorrect linefeeds so when you run the spell checker after install it still blows up but with a new error like “iso8859-1 is not in the proper format”. I downloaded the source files via ftp and manually replaced them in the aspell directory.  FTP link , (version aspell-w32-0.50.3)
4. If your php path is in system32/ you need to copy the .dll files there from the aspell/bin/ dir.
5. Finally you need to actually configure your spellchecker within WordPress 2.2.x, open the file “wordpress\wp-includes\js\tinymce\plugins\spellchecker\config.php” and comment out the Google spell checker that appears not to work at all, and those who have it working have a sweet delayed response time. Next uncomment this line: “require_once(“classes/TinyPspell.class.php”); // Internal PHP version”
6. Don’t forget to turn on the spell check in the first place in config.php “$spellCheckerConfig['enabled'] = true;”
7. Restart IIS
8. Enjoy tested and it is now working in IE7 and Firefox 2.X

Between the incorrect format of the aspell install files and the weak online support for this Ajax error, it was a solution found through trial and error.  Not bagging WordPress, free is free, and it is a killer app which is worth the debug time.  Hope this helps other frustrated hosting providers, not that it isn’t a good use of 3hours on a sunday.  For more web site design and hosting tips visit Red Olive Creative.

Red Olive recently worked with KUED-Channel 7 to produce a number of printed collateral for the annual Speaking of Women’s Health event. The collateral produced included a poster, invitations, a program booklet, a tips booklet, tickets and signage.

One of the unique challenges this project posed was in following the style standards outlined by the National Speaking of Women’s Health Conference. Red Olive, a Utah print design firm, worked closely with Penni Zito-Thompson of KUED to ensure the guidelines were met and found creative ways of adding extra touches within the guidelines to make our designs unique.

Thanks Penni for the invites to the event lunches and the grab bags. We are looking foreword to working on the project again next year.