ES Advances, located in Schenectady NY, is a full service web development agency.
Specializing in dynamic web sites built with Drupal, ExpressionEngine and WordPress we can help you, or your business, create and maintain an online presence that stands head-and-shoulders above your competition.
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Vale Cemetery, a non-profit historic cemetery in Schenectady needed a new site. Unchanged for two years and created well before that, the original site (screenshot) — complete with Dreamweaver style div soup, font tags and a marquee just for giggles — did not come close to representing the changes at Vale.
After discussion with the board members it was decided that a total overhaul was required. For a variety of reasons, Drupal was chosen to power the site.... Read more
As a relative newcomer to Drupal handicapped by a total and consuming desire not to write code, I find myself spending a lot of time in the documentation. One of Drupal’s biggest selling points was the nature and size of the community.
A meritocracy, the Drupal community rewards those who contribute by writing code, providing support and helping with documentation. This leads to a wealth of information provided by experts available, for free, right there in my browser. The depth of the documentation is remarkable and rarely do I run into a question or run or issue that somebody hasn’t thought of first.
Finding the needle is pretty easy, once you have the right haystack and this is where Theming Drupal comes in. Theming Drupal, by Emma Jane Hogbin provides a clear path for those from an HTML/CSS design background into the Drupal theming system.... Read more
Urban Renewal, Drupal Style | May 21
Vale Cemetery Site Launch | Apr 26
Themeing Drupal | Apr 15
Everything Old is New Again | Mar 05
A thousand or so images based upon Mexican comic book art. Cheesy and retro, but in a good way.
Turn 1 Column Into 2 Columns With jQuery
“This is a very specific example, but it demonstrates how jQuery can be used in a range of other situations…”
“Repeat-x repeat-y, showcasing the most badass patterns from around the world.”
Twenty Ten Theme For Developers
Tips for working with the default theme in WordPress 3.0.
“Obviously, this is a problem. The moment we start adding things to a layout simply for the sake of filling up space, we are ultimately compromising the integrity of the design. So, I find myself in a continuing battle to overcome the problem of white space, which is what I would like to discuss in this article.”
“What I’ve chosen to do is edit my /etc/hosts file to block access system-wide to the tcr.tynt.com server. This is the server from which the Tynt JavaScript code is served to all its ‘partners’.”
Create Beautiful CSS3 Typography
Skip to the end and look at the results before writing this off as too basic.
Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales backpeddles furiously after a series of ill conceived deletions.
They’re building it and you can help — no hurry, it’s going to take twenty years or so.
Thirty-five photos from Boston.com’s The Big Picture.
