I was having a hell of a time getting the spellchecker in WordPress 2.2.2 to work properly and could not find a solution online anywhere so I decided to post what worked for me. Two hours of searching online resulted in nothing so when all else fails you are left to your own devices. To preface […]
Red Olive recently worked with KUED-Channel 7 to produce a number of printed collateral for the annual Speaking of Women’s Health event. The collateral produced included a poster, invitations, a program booklet, a tips booklet, tickets and signage. One of the unique challenges this project posed was in following the style standards outlined by the […]
Red Olive Design, a web site design services company in Utah jumped at the chance to propose a three website project for the Utah Symphony & Opera. And we were ecstatic when we heard we were selected to have the opportunity to work for such a client. It’s clients like the Utah Symphony & Opera […]
Red Olive Creative, a Creative firm based in Utah. Has established a reputation for high end design. We specialize in media creative, print creative, web creative. Red Olive Creative has been around since 1999. Red Olive has designed hundreds of print pieces and web creative for clients world-wide. Even International Cients such as Volvo, Shapepoint and Flying J […]
Spencer Clark with Clark Outdoor Products came to Red Olive, a Utah branding firm, looking to creatively update their look to appeal to a more high end audience that would reposition them to be able to compete with brands such as North Face, Black Diamond, and Kelty. We started out by redesigning their logo to […]
With the inception of Windows XP on October 25, 2001 Microsoft offered a beautiful new font named Papyrus. It was different, exciting, and new. It wasn’t well suited to copy since it was damn hard to read when small, so it made its mark in the world of logos and headlines. It was the day everyone with enough money […]
Say you need to find and replace text that differs but the term is similar like <span class=1> <a href=differs.htm> Something</a> the href differs but you need the <span class> moved inside the tag… <span class=”link1″><span class=”link2″><a href=anything.html> use: <span class=”link1″><span class=”link2″><a href=(w*).html> replace with: <span class=”link1″><span class=”link2″><a href=$1.html> $1, $2 etc. will replace things […]
Our resident design guru Vince Stinson, who just so happens to be on the board of the UAF informed us that we will be donating the hosting for the Utah Advertising Federation website. ( http://www.utahadfed.com) It is an honor and a privilege to work with Deanne Budge who heads up the organization. The hunt is on […]
Ever wanted to know how a visitor found your site but are too lazy to go look up the stats? Collect the referrer information on the homepage and store it in a session. When they fill out a contact form collect that info and there you go. The below code assumes you have a windows […]
Back in the early years of the Internet, you could do very little Search Engine Optimization and be ranked on the first page, or even #1. And with little or no maintenance you would stay in that position for a long time. But times have changed, therefore, a different approach must be taken in order […]
We are big fans of wordpress and would like to share some of our own research to help others with similar issues. It really sucks that WordPress by default doesn’t work with php/IIS installs. One would ask why not just switch to Apache? Because it can’t run ASP.NET, that’s why. Rather than dedicate an apache box […]
You may run across a fairly undocumented bug while developing web sites in CSS. The background you’ve defined in your CSS doesn’t want to repeat. Typically you could just use the “clear:both” attributes but it fails too. A simple fix is to put a regular HTML 4.0 tag like <BR> in your code and apply […]
Finally, we decided to put together a much talked about utah web design blog. We initially only wanted to post common bugs or issues we faced while developing websites as an inhouse/public resource. Hopefully once picked up by the search engines it would help others facing similar conundrums. It was only after marketing heard we […]