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Free Photography

JJ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:22:53 +0000

This is the first of our specials we will be offering in 2010! We are offering free photography (to clients in the North Idaho/ Spokane, WA area) with the purchase of a CMS website. Having nice photography of your products, real estate, or employees is a great way to enhance your website. Photos can be added to a ecommerce store, a photo gallery, or incorporate images into your web design. Contact us today for a free quote!

The service includes 4 hours of on-site photography plus editing images in Photoshop. Dirty Blue Media proudly uses Nikon digital photography equipment.

Desk Space Theme Update

Nathaniel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:20:56 +0000

We’ve recently updated the Desk Space theme to embrace the latest Wordpress functionality. Threaded comments, bug fixes, design fixes and more. Check it out here →

Desk Space Wordpress Theme

Nathaniel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:11:02 +0000

Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich Wordpress theme.

Demo / Download »

It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like.

Everything you see in this demo is using built in plugins.

Feature List

Built in plugins for Twitter, Flickr, Recent Comments, Comment Editor, and Shadowbox.
Built in google adsense strip. Just paste in your client ID in the theme options page.
Built in feedburner linkage. Just paste in your feedburner ID in the theme options page.
Comments and Trackbacks are seperated. (example)
Gravatar support.
Widget ready.
Background image wood finish color choice. See screenshots below.
jQuery fancy pants effects like smooth scrolling
Page template that includes comments.
Attractive Printed Pages via print.css
Sidebar profile with info that is pulled from the admin user account like the gravatar.
IE6 compatible.

Background options

Theme Options & and Printed page

Nods, Props, Credits Etc

The home page idea of older posts fading and shrinking was entirely influenced by Darren Hoyt’s Agregado Theme.

The background images are courtesy of Wolfgang Bartelme’s Solid Wood Devkit.

We love Wordpress. But not in “that” kind of way.

~~The comment box editor is a built in WMD Editor plugin by Chad Coleman.~~ Removed in Version 1.5

Shadowbox is also built in. Just add rel=”shadowbox” to any link tag. You can find more tricks on usage at the shadowbox site.

Download Desk Space

Desk Space Theme 1.5 610K

Theme Options Page Requires Saving For Theme To Work After Installation!

Due to so many comments coming in about the theme “not working” or “not showing posts”, I must make this a rather large note. After uploading and activating the theme, you must go to the sidebar in your admin center and click APPEARANCE > DESKSPACE OPTIONS and hit the save button. This writes the data to the database and presents the theme with your chosen options.

Release Notes

Version 1.0
It launches. After one day, we received some constructive criticism via our twitter friends.

“It sucks. Start over”. We’ll have to take that one with a grain of salt.
“The background fading to white is a bit too stark.” So we figured we’ll update the file with a fixed background image. Which brings us to version 1.1 now available for download.

Version 1.1
Applied a “fixed” background image. Let us know what you think.
Added max-width restriction to images used in posts.
Updated archive.php to inform the viewer what date, tag, or category they are viewing.

Version 1.5 June 16th, 2009

Advanced Theme Settings Page
New Front Page Layout Control: Default, Page or Blog Posts
Page Navigation Tabs
Threaded Comments
Bug Fix Jan. 7th 2010 – We corrected the page inclusion in the theme options for the themes navigation.

Web Design for Real Estate

JJ — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:37:00 +0000

A strong online presence is vital for brokers and sales associates in the growing online real estate market. The internet has become a substantial tool for not only real estate research, but also marketing your company’s services and properties. Separate yourself from the competition with a professional web design and proven SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by Dirty Blue Media.

Already have a website? Dirty Blue Media will redesign your existing website to make it more appealing to the eye. We can add the functionality of a streamline CMS (Content Management System) that will make easy work of adding listings, content, and photographs. Our Search Engine Optimization services can improve your organic search engine ranking in order to drive traffic to your site. Over 85% of all Internet users reach their online destination through search engines. We work to make your website optimized for today’s top search engines like Google, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo.

Marketing your business just got much easier with the services of Dirty Blue Media. We can develop your corporate identity from logo development to print and business card design.. We will formulate a custom internet marketing strategy for your company that will help you stand out from the large pool of local Realtors.

Property Management Web Design

JJ — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:19:38 +0000

Property Management companies have a unique opportunity on the web. By creating a website that is beautiful and easy to navigate, property management companies can easily separate themselves from the large pool of local competition they face. Dollar for dollar, marketing your property management company online has a further reach and a quicker return on investment (ROI) than most traditional marketing avenues.

And lets not forget functionality. With our Content Management System (CMS) a property management company can easily edit their page content on the fly, without the need to call a web guy. Our Property Management Module can be added to the CMS and make easy work of adding listings and photos of your properties.

Does your property management company accept rent payments from your tenets online? We also offer a Payment Module to streamline this process.

Dirty Blue Featured

Nathaniel — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:52:53 +0000

Wordpress is a wonderful piece of open source software that we happen to be very fond of. Dirty Blue is completely powered by Wordpress, and was recently featured on welovewp.com, which is a nifty site showcasing wordpress powered sites. Be sure to check it out and subscribe to the feed. Thanks Nate!

The Website Has Launched!

JJ — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:33:35 +0000

Today is the official launch day of dirtybluemedia.com! We are very excited about the grand opening and welcome all visitors to spend some time going through the different sections. You will see that there is a “Client Section” tab (on the top right hand side of the page) that will slide open to show customer options. We have added a press release section and a blog where you can stay up to date on Dirty Blue Media happenings. Please be sure to subscribe to our feed by clicking the RSS icon on the sidebar to the right. We will be continuing to add features, content, and new functionality in the near future. Thank you for stopping by!

4 Nifty New WordPress Themes

Nathaniel — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:15:30 +0000

Here are four recently released wordpress themes. I personally think notepad is the niftiest theme out of all 4, but I do like the rustic and wooden look of the modern oak theme as well. These are nice free themes and all, but if you really want to stand out from the crowd, you should contact us about designing a custom premium wordpress theme for your brand.