For the second installment of our Meet the Team blog posts, we wanted to give you the opportunity to get to know our CEO, Alex Paine, who co-founded WebSight Design in 1995 with his childhood friend, Joe Conte.
The beauty of WebSight Design lies in our full range of web services. From design to development, SEO, hosting, and IT support, we have an excellent 15-year track record of providing our clients with the best possible products and services. Over the years, we have built our own PHP development environment, based on the open-source [...]
Or rather, design is not just a pretty picture.
It’s direction. It’s credibility establishment. It’s communication. And it initializes all functionality on the site by getting users to take action. — to click, to scroll, to fill out a form, or purchase a product. Without a well-thought-out design, it doesn’t matter how robust and bullet-proof the back-end functionality is; users will never make it far enough to experience any of the programming features. This, coupled with the fact that your site’s design is your business’ first impression, makes design one of the most important features of your online presence.
The latest updates to the Official Santana iPhone Application have been submitted to Apple, so if you haven’t downloaded this killer app to your iPhone or iPod Touch yet, now’s your chance! The app features videos and exclusive content that you can’t get on the Santana.com web site. It’s free and it’s a must-have for [...]
Franklin + Gower, a Los Angeles-based clothier, came to us looking for solutions, both design and e-commerce. The client already had a logo — as well as design sensibility and a sense of the look & feel they were going for. The rest, as they say, is GUI history. Implementing lots of slick AJAX and [...]
So I wrote an iPhone application for a client using v2.2.1 of the iPhone SDK. (The client did not want to go OS v3.0 yet.) I needed to give a user the capability of taking and uploading a picture with the built-in camera or uploading a picture from the photo library on the phone. Seems [...]
About a month ago, WebSight Design released our first iPhone application, (http://itunes.com/app/Santana), for the musician Carlos Santana. I thought it might be interesting and maybe even helpful for others iPhone developers if I listed some of my experiences with building this application. I figure I would describe the application (features, etc…), and illustrate some of [...]
I was really excited by the news of the new iPhone OS v3.0 announced last week. Copy-and-Paste aside, there are a lot of less-talked-about features that I find pretty cool and crucial to the advancement of the platform: Peer-to-Peer Connectivity over Bluetooth This is a feature that I thought seemed so obvious to have baked [...]
I’ve recently *really* been getting into Cocoa development for both the MacOSX and the iPhone. Can I just say that Cocoa, (especially Cocoa Touch), ROCKS!!! I am in the middle of building a soon-to-be-published app for the Apple App Store. I forgot how much I loved writing C code. Objective-C is really a nice, simple [...]
To add a chrooted FTP user outside of Plesk properly, you need to: Create the user with the home directory as the root of what they can access Give the user a password Make their primary group psacln Add them to the psaserv group as well # useradd username -d /var/www/html/website/slideshow/ # passwd username Enter [...]