http://www.thinktank-studio.com creative, artistic graphic design Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:55:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hey folks.  i'm in the market for a dedicated server.  in order to provide our customres with an unparalleled level of support, i want to be sure that we can also offer hosting solutions in addition to our web design services.  currently this site, as well as the jazzsequence.com sites are ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/hosting/green-dedicated-server Welcome to the world of freelancing:  one week we're struggling, with no projects on the horizon.  Reality chose that week for my monitor of 8 years to finally die, and I've been using the MacBook for designing since (which isn't ideal since the color isn't as good and changes depending ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/posts/world-freelancing I built a mod for Elgg to put rss feeds into the spotlight in Elgg, rathar than the default Elgg stuff.  I posted it to the usergroups and, hey, we got a shout out.  It's not much, but it's still nice to see our name on someone's blog other than ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/articles/thinktank-mention-elgg-development I added the "Metallic" theme which was ported from the old site and I've added in a pretty titles wp plugin (ttftitles) that makes an image from the text using fonts you upload -- i like it a lot.  I have one more theme I need to port over and ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/site-updates/theme-pretty-titles It was getting a bit insane trying to manage all of our projects, so I deployed a project manager application powered by WebCollab.  I'm really impressed.  It's got a smooth, easy-to-use interface and will make managing project easier for us, and allow us to share our progress with our clients.  ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/site-updates/portfolio-updated-project-manager-application-deployed we had some downtime last night due to a power outage.  luckily it was sunday night at about 10 and after some fiddling i was able to get the server back up this morning at 6:30-ish mst.  i'm kind of disappointed, anyway, though because we had a pretty good run ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/site-updates/server-downtime Hi.  You're looking at the brand-spanking-new ThinkTank Studio website.  We're still working on adding in a Theme Switcher to allow you to change the look of the site, but we decided it was time to launch the site anyway.  This is one of our favorite themes that we've built for ... http://www.thinktank-studio.com/posts/thinktank-studio-beta-site-launched