opentoolboxWe are excited to announce our new video blog: Main Street’s Open Toolbox. This video series will discuss tools and techniques for building better web sites. We will also include interviews with industry players and developers.

To kick off the series, we start with our own WordPress guru, Adam White, as he discusses one of WordPress’ most under-appreciated features: custom fields. If you’ve heard people complain that WP is not a “real” CMS, they probably don’t have a clue how custom fields can expand the functionality of your site.
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opentoolboxCory Miller and Chris Jean from iThemes were in our studio last week. One of the topics was when to upgrade to WordPress 2.8, and how to prepare for the upgrade. Chris Jean, the senior Code Monkey and general technical guru of iThemes gave us his suggestions.
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ithemesWe’ve been old friends with the iThemes guys for years. Besides the friendship, they also build great premium WordPress themes and we partner with them to provide customization and support for those themes.

A couple weeks ago iThemes announced that they are changing their licensing model from the traditional copyrighted version to the GPL license. What does that mean for developers? The themes are still not free, but the multi-use licenses are gone. Once you buy a theme you can re-use it anywhere and any way you choose.

We were able to get Cory Miller and Chris Jean in our studio last week to talk about why they made this change. Read More→

phoneI’ve known Cory Miller from iThemes.com for years, and last week he came over to shoot some video for our upcoming video blog. After the shoot was over he offered to say some nice things about Main Street. (I didn’t ask him too, but I certainly didn’t refuse when he offered.)

When he did the testimonial he mentioned that one of the key reasons he trusts Main Street to take care of his referred customers is because when clients call, we answer the phone!

I hadn’t thought about answering the phone as a competitive advantage in the high-technology world, but now that I think about it, we do work with a lot of vendors who are reachable only via email.

So, if you are looking for real people who answer their own phones, then Main Street may be a good fit for you. We are generally in the office from 8am - 5pm central time, Monday - Friday. Give us a call.  (We also respond to emails pretty promptly too.)

Cory’s complete testimonial is here. Thanks Cory!

iran-tw-20_biggerI watched the Iran Election chatter on Twitter for several hours last night. In a country with no free press and limited free speech it turns out that Twitter is a powerful tool of open communications. As the protesters used Twitter to rally and pass information about government activities, the government tried to block it and other social networking sites. Read More→

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