http://blackbox-tech.com BlackBox Technologies (BlackBox) is a web-presence service provider and trusted IT advisor to individuals and small-to-medium businesses. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:11:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This morning WordPress announced the release of WordPress 2.7 Beta 1. The original release date for 2.7 was scheduled for November 10th but is expected to be delayed for two weeks putting a probable release date of November 24 on the calendar. What this means is that you can download ... http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/wordpress-27-beta-1-release/ Most of you already know how much we love the WordPress Platform but Eric Martin might actually love it more... he carved a WordPress logo pumpkin that looks outstanding. Happy Halloween Everyone and enjoy a safe and happy kick off to the holiday season. http://www.ericmmartin.com/wordpress-pumpkin/ShareThis http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/wordpress-pumpkin/ Aerospace Quality Research and Development is a full service engineering and quality firm specializing in the development of quality and engineering systems integration solutions. Blackbox was hired to design a "technically" oriented site for this independent consultancy. Visit Aerospace Quality Research and Development at: http://aerospaceqrd.com/ShareThis http://blackbox-tech.com/client/aqrd/ Companion Care LLC is based in Hillsborough Township in Somerset County, New Jersey. However, we have companions located throughout central and northern New Jersey. The territory we serve depends on whether the case is for a ”Live-In aide or an hourly aide. Live-In aides can be provided almost anywhere in ... http://blackbox-tech.com/client/companion-care/ The first official BlackBox Theme will be available from BlackBox Technologies shortly. The same cool theme you see on this site can now be used for yours. This theme is fully widget enabled, easy to customize and will be well documented for the developers out there. As soon as we ... http://blackbox-tech.com/products/official-blackbox-theme/ Community Crush is the first nationwide "for the community by the community" portal focused on the suburbs and outlying areas which are so often neglected by sites. Best of all, Community Crush can be largely customized by the people who live in the community and who contribute to the site. ... http://blackbox-tech.com/innovations/community-crush-10/ The guys at Automattic (makers of WordPress) released wireframes yesterday of the new administration interface for WordPress 2.7. While some of the wireframes are still rough, all are in black and white and all are subject to change it gives us a good glimpse into the next release. I continue ... http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/wordpress-27-wireframes/ Wordpress 2.7 is well under way and the guys at Automattic are doing extensive research and development to make next generation improvements to the administrative interface. In addition to more scientific forms of research they are polling WordPress users for their thoughts and opinions on various features, in this case ... http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/wordpress-27-survey/ There is a great deal of noise about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) these days and well there should be, if no one can find your site the odds are you're loosing immediate business and long-term opportunity. There is also an equal amount of discussion about paid search (e.g. Google Adwords) ... http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/natural-search-or-paid-search/ Over the span of my career I've logged enough hours at conferences and seminars to have earned another college degree, and enough money has been spent sending me to pay for one.  And for all of the benefit (and fun) I've gotten from them (ok, most of them were fairly ... http://blackbox-tech.com/blog/wordcamp-2008-san-francisco/