FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “ATILUS COFOUNDER AND TECHNOLOGY CHIEF JOINED SAFE AMERICA FOUNDATION D.C. SUMMIT” BONITA SPRINGS, FL – Atilus Partner Harry Casimir was asked to partner with the Safe America Foundation for an international safety summit in Washington D.C. in late June. Safe America Foundation is a global emergency preparedness initiative headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. [...]

Jason Fried: 37signals Jason Fried is the co-founder of the company 37signals – the company responsible for some awesome collaborative programs like Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, Ta-Da List, and Writeboard. He and David Hansson also published a book, Rework, about the principles at the core of 37signals’ success and offering ideas for putting them into [...]

Lesson 4 jumped right into template construction with ExpressionEngine. As I mentioned before, the process is similar to a PHP/Wordpress site, pulling includes and dynamic data through ExpressioneEngine template tags. Template tags are “variable” names enclosed in brackets that allows synchronization between the final html doc and the data included in the backend. Syntax is [...]

Matt Mullenweg: WordPress & Automattic.com If you’re on this site, there is a very good chance that you already know who this person is. Matt Mullenweg is the developer of WordPress, the free and open source web software that we all know and love. He is also the founder of Automattic, the site behind WordPress.com, [...]

My Cousin works for a small international adventure travel company (woman-owned and employed), Access Trips.  www.accesstrips.com.  They are applying for a 250,000 grant that would help their company in so many ways.  If you would, please follow this link:  www.missionsmallbusiness.com and type in “Access Trips” to vote for them. Please check these guys, ah hem… ladies… out!  

Our third ExpressionEngine training class started with mention that would be fast-paced. With this teacher, I wasn’t sure how much faster could it be! In the beginning of our class, an interesting Q & A by a concerned PHP developer ensued; he (as we all) was curious about the ease of integration between PHP and [...]

The World Wide Web is a pretty big place with A LOT of big players. That’s how I like to think of the “online world” – as an actual place. That’s what it is. There are innovators, audiences, leaders, and actual places to go. Rather than take this post to talk about current trends, news, [...]

In the second Creat-ee training session of ExpressionEngine unlike the theorical first class, we jumped right into real-world practice and how to create Channels, Categories and entries, basically all the bits and pieces that make up a website. I now realize the astounding size of the underground mafia behind ExpressionEngine. Since ExpressionEngine is fairly new [...]

Social media advertising can cause some to be a big skeptical (myself included). However, I recently had the opportunity to find out what it is like to advertise on LinkedIn (if you don’t know what LinkedIn is, check out this blog for a little refresher). The LinkedIn Difference I find that LinkedIn is a great [...]

Since joining Atilus I have come across another web developing platform named ExpressionEngine which has been used in the past for several clients. For me to successfully implement a brand new website in this system, I decided to dive head-on into a training class offered by Creat//ee – specialized tutorials developed by a team of [...]