We’ve just launched a new website for our friends at Louisville Dining and Entertainment and we’re really excited to announce it here as well. We’re pleased with the design that Sande Rawlings and John Paul Rawlins created and with the technology utilized to make it all work. It’s built with the impressive WordPressMU, allowing the site to have a wider range of possibilities than most sites out there.
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Louisville Dining and Entertainment is launched!
Saturday, February 27th, 2010How states deal with E-Commerce & Tax
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009An interesting graphic was recently posted on the issue of how different states approach Taxes and E-Commerce. As stated in the graphic and article, a Supreme Court decision from 1992 (Quill v. North Dakota) declared that if a business has no physical presence in a state, then sales tax needs not be collected in that state. However, places such as New York are passing (and their courts upholding) laws to allow just that to happen. So to our E-Commerce clients – make sure you’re charging sales tax on New York orders!
http://www.visualeconomics.com/e-tailers-grapple-with-sales-tax/
Update! Thanks to Kenneth at Bluegrass.net, we’ve become aware of some recent changes to Kentucky Tax Law. KRS 139 (available to read online) covers everything needed by our non-Kentucky e-commerce clients in regards to tax. This update shouldn’t affect how our Kentucky clients conduct their online business at present time.
Heimerdinger Cutlery
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Heimerdinger Cutlery.com Screen Shot
In Mid 2008, Heimerdinger Cutlery got together with Louisville Web Group to not only bring about a change to their existing webstore, but to overhaul their entire business. Breaking everything out into several stages, the culmination of the project(s) has come to bear fruit for the world to see. HeimerdingerCutlery.com is now live, and racking up more and more sales every day! (more…)
MCTA Tennis site
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Screen Shot of MCTA Tennis.org
The Montgomery Country Tennis Association was recently looking to refresh their web presence, and was referred to us from our pals over at Bluegrass.net. Not only were they looking for a redesign for their normal pages (maintained via a CMS built specifically for them by Bluegrass.net), they were looking for a partner interested in revamping their site’s architecture. (more…)
Joomla/IE problems
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009It seems that Internet Explorer has some problems when it comes to cut-and-pasting form code. One of our clients, which has a Joomla-based site, has found some errors that may cause them to switch over to Firefox.
The client is using Paypal to take payments and registrations for monthly events. They have an “events” module installed on their site that uses the Paypal buttons, as well as normal content pages. They’ve found that after repeated tests on different computers, they can’t seem to get the Paypal buttons to work. After asking us to put the buttons in the pages/events for them several months running, we finally tracked down the problem.
The problem stems from a combination of Joomla trying to clean up code and IE (version 7 and below) refusing to show FORM data inside an input box – thereby corrupting the Paypal button(s). For our clients that are using Joomla (or pretty much any CMS – though IE+Wordpress doesn’t seem to have this problem), we suggest utilizing Firefox, Safari, or even Opera, as all should have no problems if you are trying to put paypal buttons into individual CMS articles.
The client has updated to Internet Explorer 8 (available for free download), which we are suggesting to all clients. However, be aware that the rendering engine will likely make many sites look “funky” and possibily broken. This is due to Microsoft not fully embracing the W3C’s web standards and developers having to code IE-specific code for years. Unfortunately, the new version still doesn’t come up to par on the standards, but there is now the additional problem of a lot of that previous IE-only code not working well in IE8. Thankfully, you can browse pages in “Compatibility View” which should take care of your viewing experience while you browse the web in a much safer, partially more usable fashion.
So what is Ruby On Rails and why should you care?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Ruby on Rails, an open source web development framework, has revolutionized the way we create web applications. By giving developers the necessarily tools and components needed to build powerful apps in an intuitive development environment, RoR makes development more efficient and less troublesome, according to one of our development colleagues.
Ruby on Rails uses a concept called Convention over Configuration which makes you follow conventions while you’re coding, leaving you with little configuration to do. For instance, if you created a model class called “Post” the corresponding database table will be called “posts” and the controller class will be called “PostsController”.
Further to this, Rails has a nice feature called scaffolding. Scaffolding allows you to create useful prototypes for clients in super fast times. However, a word of warning, it is deemed bad practice to use scaffolding code for actually building the final draft of a web application.
As a company, Louisville Web Group remains dedicated to a combination of CSS Web Standards and PHP because there isn’t much Ruby “out there” yet and there aren’t very many people around that can develop in it. That doesn’t mean we don’t like it though. We do. And we’re gradually working Ruby into our system. Will we ever be exclusive Ruby developers? Not likely. But we’ll have it should we need it.
-Gary
Phone: (502) 241-2642
