Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

Ignite Advisors takes great ideas and puts them into action

WebSight Design is happy to announce the brand new launch of IgniteAdvisors.net.   This site includes the administrator driven modules for news, text management, and team bio management.  We have also added a innovative new module that allows for the upload and resizing of logos to the Ignite Network.

About Ignite Advisors, LLC
In 2008, Ignite Advisors founder [...]

Visit PremierConcerts.com for concert tickets in Connecticut and Massachusetts

Premierconcerts.com has just relaunched their site will a new design and new features from WebSight Design.

The new design includes a rotating banner feature on the newly redesigned homepage.  This banner cycles through images that are uploaded from the administrator and highlight featured upcoming shows.  With this relaunch they have added a fabulous new photo gallery [...]

WebSight Design SEO Success Story – Storage Seeker

WebSight Design understands how important search engine optimization (SEO) is to your site. Having bad SEO is like opening your shop in the middle of the desert, and forbidding people from having your phone number and address.  Not much business is going to happen that way!  But buyer beware, there are many different SEO scams [...]

WebSight Design and 11345.com

WebSight Design is proud to announce that we have been selected by 11345.com to redesign and re-engineer their web site. We’re excited to give this project our all!
11345 is an independent record label & mail order emporium.  Not only do they carry hundreds of items pop, rawk n’ roll, cow-punk, alt-country, and garage items, as [...]

WebSight Design Advises Morgan Lane Marin In Merger With Pacific Union Real Estate

WebSight Design, Inc. is pleased to announce our role as lead technology consultant to Marin County real estate firm Morgan Lane Marin in their acquisition of Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate, one of the largest real estate brokerage firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The deal will bring together 17 Bay Area offices [...]

Relaunch for Santana.com

As you must have noticed, we have been heavy hitting with Carlos Santana in 2009.  In February we released our first iPhone app for Santana and now we are happy to say the newly renovated Santana.com is live!
We have worked very hard on the new and improved Santana.com.  The previous site 9 years old, so [...]

How to add a chrooted FTP account for access to a specific dir on a Linux Plesk server

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 new password for username
# usermod -g psacln [...]

One way to fix Apache serving up the wrong SSL certificate

I ran into an issue today on an Ubuntu server running Apache 2 where the server already had an SSL certificate for ‘www.domain.com’ and the client wanted to add a second one for ’sub.domain.com’.  I added a new IP to the server, set up the virtual site, and generated the CSR and ordered and installed the cert [...]

Configuring MySQL-Python on OSX Leopard

At WebSight Design we try to remain technology-agnostic. (The right tool or language for the job.) Having said that, we are primarily a PHP shop. However, with the launch of the Google App Engine, we’ve been looking seriously at Python. In recent years, I have become a big fan of development frameworks so to aide [...]

Allowing PHP to write files in a Plesk server environment

As you may have found out, a web server that houses a bunch of web sites can cause some issues with file permissions when it comes to allowing PHP to write files that a web site needs, whether it is a data file, a document or an image. This is usually not an issue [...]