The owners of deal a day golf recently came to me and asked me to completely redesign their daily deal site, Deal A Day Golf. Their old site had a very dark theme with lots of black and dark green which made it very tough to read. They were also having to do much more maintenance on the site than they really wanted to. I spent the next few weeks working with them to create their new site which has gone live in the recent weeks.

Their new site was built around the goal of being able to configure the site and let it run with very little attention. I provided them with an administrative interface that lets them manage their products, schedule products to run, and set many other options on the site such as page meta and even gave them a somewhat simple store in their Past Deals section.

The new site also incorporates payment integrations with Paypal, Google Checkout, and Authorize.net. Their previous site only allowed individuals to pay using Authorize.net. Providing Google and Paypal just gives their customers that much more freedom when choosing how to pay for their products. If you’ve never seen Deal A Day Golf, check out their site and send me feedback on how you like it.

Cheapofeed.com has recently gone live in a beta version. We are still working out a lot of the kinks in the site. The site is unique in the way it tracks and ranks deals of the day. The site has a list of daily-deal sites that it reviews every 24 hours. When it finds a new deal, it posts it in the appropriate category. Users of the site can then vote whether they like that deal by clicking on the deal and visiting the site that is running the deal. The more votes that the deal gets, the higher the deal is listed on the page. In this way, sites are rewarded by running attractive deals.

Visit the site and let us here at Halfslide know if you find any bugs.

I recently finished a site for Storage Strategies Now, an industry analyst firm that provides reports and commentary on the technology market. There’s not much to the site itself other than the fact that it was created using php and it uses Adobe’s Contribute technology to allow the client to make updates to the site themselves. I basically put together the layout and used php includes to include small pages of content that the client can update. This gives the added benefit of allowing the client to update the content on the site without having to worry about disturbing the general layout. Very cool technology.

After Our Day is an online honeymoon registry that I’ve created that allows couples to set up a wedding registry that will apply to their honeymoon. An honeymoon registry works exactly like any regular wedding gift registry. The only difference is that wedding guests can purchase things like “10,000 Miles of Airfare” for your honeymoon instead of getting you that fancy new Cuisinart. The goal with this site is to provide a free way for couples to earn money for their honeymoon. The site will be completely free to use and would (hopefully) be self-supporting using ads.

I’m still working on a lot of the user admin stuff, but hope to have it open to the public by the end of the year. Feel free to leave any comments on the idea of the site and how you like the layout currently.

I recently finished work on hataday.com for a client at JustSports.net. The site functions similarly to Shirtaday in that a new item is put up for sale every single day and only a limited number are available. It’s all based on the woot.com business model. The only difference with this site is that there is no price decline with each item that is purchased. This makes sense as the hats are all pre-ordered so there is no cost decline as with t-shirts.

The site was my first interaction with authorize.net. Overall, I would say that they have a strong product offering. Their developer integration documentation is very rich and their example code covers just about everything you will need to do a full integration. I wasn’t pleased with all the hoops you have to jump through to get started with them though. For example, in order to get a developer account, you have to basically send them an email and they will get back to you in a day or two. With paypal and google, all you do is create an account through their websites and you are off and running. Much simpler and allows you to do everything you need to do without getting help from their support teams.

There weren’t too many suprises with this site and it looks to be a really good front-end for justsports.net. Let’s hope they can get some traffic flowing to the site through all of the deal of the day sites so that they can be successful.

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This past Friday I put the finishing touches on the Clear Choice Window Cleaning and Pressure Washing site. Jake, the owner of Clear Choice, was one of the easiest clients I’ve had to work with in a while. He had all of his content together and we were able to knock out his site in less than 48 hours. The site is pretty minimal and is mostly html except for a php form mailer.

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So I’m finally putting the finishing touches on Pioneer Videography’s site. The site utilizes php, xhtml, css, and javascript. The navigation menu utilizes scriptaculous to provide a sliding open/closed effect. The site is very minimal other than that. The only things left are to do some small edits on the videography page and shore up the SEO keywords and descriptions. See the site here.

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