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We just finished the web development and launch of the IN-NW Conference website.  We had a little fun with the design supplied by 206Inc and added lots of fun jQuery effects like the sliding panels and pop-up effects on the speakers.  Creation-1 will be one of the main event sponsors.  Check the details here and see ya in February!

We are ecstatic to announce the launch of http://sagementoring.org/ – A site representing a wonderful school based mentoring program based in Suquamish, WA.  Sage is a part of Washington State Mentors.  We developed this site working with the talented team at NPower Northwest utilizing WordPress as a content management system.  Look out for more collaborations between NPower Northwest and Creation-1 in the future!

Meet me at the Seattle WordPress Meetup at Techstars (511 Boren Ave N. Suite B, Seattle) at 630 PM.  If you have never been to a WordPress Meetup you are seriously missing out on a great network of users, developers, and designers who love WordPress.  We meet monthly and there is always time for networking and meeting new people.  See ya there!

We have recently rejoined the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce (Formerly known as the Greater Seattle Chamber) as Silver Members!  We are excited to be reunited with such a diverse group of business leaders in Seattle and are looking forward to attending the various events they host around town.  We will be attending the Young Professionals Network event tomorrow at Pratt park.  We hope to see you there

What can I say?  There really is no excuse.  It’s a small shop here a C-1.  We concentrate quite heavily on face to face human- type networking and we have been plotting and planning how we would shape our image via social media.  We have come a long way in 5 years as a company and we are just getting to that point where we want to announce ourselves to the world!  Most of our time is spent connecting with people in real life and listening to their ideas. This is what we have prided ourselves on over the past few years.  We understand that people have had bad experiences working with people in this industry.  We know that web developers are typically hard to contact, never answer the phone, disappear near deadlines, and work strange hours.  That’s why we always tell people to call us.  We will pick up the phone, we will answer you on Skype or iChat, we will respond to your email by the next business day, and we will always return carrier pigeons promptly- weather permitting.

This is where Facebook comes in.  We will use it more to connect with people and share our ideas, not so much for promotion.  We understand that most people are not interested in our rather geektastic pursuits which is why our FB page will likely be promoting other peoples projects and highlighting what we think is shaping our future landscape in society.  Because let’s face it, web development now affects every aspect of our lives.

With that said, enjoy our musings and the occasional stupid joke and “Like” us in the right sidebar of the blog.

We just launched http://MyNorthSeattleHome.com- The informative and playfully designed site of Seattle Real Estate expert Conor MacEvilly.  We designed and developed the site with Conor’s idea of having something equally loud and memorable as it is useful.  We teamed up with Terry Macintosh at IDXNW who built an amazing API that lets us search for Seattle Area homes within the site all while utilizing WordPress as a content management system.  The site is full of useful tidbits about buying and selling homes in Seattle.  Take a look for yourself!

Congratulations to our long time friend Melanie Duerkopp on her new WordPress powered blog!  Melanie is a talented photographer who specializes in weddings and portraits.  Check out her work- here and her blog- here

The long awaited major update to WordPress is now available for download.  Overall, the new version is faster, more intuitive and has a new default theme called 2011.  Take a look at the new version here:

We just finished the final touches on developing a site for CASE, a Political Action Committee.  We took the designs and implemented them into our Genus Online Business Solution.  This enables the board at CASE to update the site with new information as well as control their e-commerce donation system.  We will be adding new features in the coming months and are very excited about the potential of this project.

This is a just a quick reminder to all of our friends using WordPress.  Make sure you update to the new version- 3.1.3.   This will likely be the last version before 3.2.  It has several security fixes.  One of the most common reasons for getting hacked is having as outdated (and vulnerable) version!  Here are some of the updates that were made:

• Various security hardening by Alexander Concha.
• Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky.
• Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros.
• Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft, Jesse Ou of Microsoft, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research.
• Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings.
• Cleans up old WordPress import files if the import does not finish.
• Introduce “clickjacking” protection in modern browsers on admin and login pages.