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Fail2Ban Regex for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Amazon Linux 2013

By on April 19, 2013 in Amazon Web Services, Portfolio

Fail2Ban is a very efficient daemon that scans log files for malicious activity, and offers several options to ban offending IPs and hostnames. Although it is highly configurable, it requires a depth of knowledge beyond that required for GUI-accessible firewalls such as ConfigServer Security & Firewall. Harden the Kernel Before do anything further, it is [...]

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Punk Rock Music Community

By on April 10, 2012 in Consulting, Music, Portfolio, Publishing, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

Punktastic.com is a community powered site that covers punk music in Britain, but is poised to go worldwide. They cover punk and hardcore shows and festivals, and provide album reviews, video interviews and more. With a growing audience and user base, Punktastic needed a more reliable and robust web server, so they made the move [...]

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Farm to Table Restaurant Website

By on December 24, 2011 in Agriculture, Organic Farms, Portfolio, Restaurant, Retail

Joe Naturals Farm Store Cafe is a “farm to table” cafe and natural foods store located in historic Leiper’s Fork, near Franklin, TN. The owners contacted me through a fellow farmer with whom I have worked on several web projects. The website project was languishing, after being abandoned by a designer who lacked knowledge of [...]

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E-Commerce Magazine Subscription Website

By on July 15, 2011 in E-Commerce, Portfolio, Publishing, Small Business

Light Sport & Ultralight Flying Magazine needed an easy-to-manage e-commerce solution, coupled with Content Management and slideshows. I used Joomla plus VirtueMart, and SlideShowPro to give them a sophisticated system that is simple to use. The magazine has been in circulation since 1975, so the publishers know how to survive and thrive. Online sales & [...]

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Public Art Non-Profit Website

By on June 19, 2011 in Arts and Nonprofit, Organizations, Portfolio, Wordpress

Mark Making is a Chattanooga non-profit with a mission to enhance the town with public art and to engage the public in the creation and production of art, not merely it’s appreciation or exhibition. This project was yet another “rescue effort” to save a dying website that had been abandoned by a previous developer. Knowing [...]

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Industrial Galvanizer Website

By on June 4, 2011 in Manufacturing, Portfolio, Wordpress

Tennessee Galvanizing had an aging Joomla site that needed major software updates. So, I migrated the site to Wordpress for ease of use and ease of updates. Wordpress is much more user friendly than Joomla, and also easier to maintain.

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Office Coordinators Inc. website

Office Furniture Retail Showcase

By on May 17, 2011 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio, Retail, Small Business, Wordpress

I worked with Office Coordinators Inc’s talented in-house designers to update the OCI website. OCI chose an e-commerce theme, and we completely reworked the CSS and layout to match their colors and logo treatment. After a previous failed attempt with another developer, they were surprised at how quickly the site came together, and how easy [...]

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Bike Shop Website with Facebook Features

By on February 13, 2011 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio, Retail, Small Business, Wordpress

I’ve been hosting and helping with Suck Creek Cycle’s website since they opened in 1998. The site was long overdue for an upgrade, so I took an existing template design and tweaked it a bit to look like the bike shop, then integrated social media and syndicated content from their vendors. Facebook local business page [...]

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Farmers Market Website

By on September 5, 2010 in Agriculture, Content Management Systems, Organic Farms, Portfolio, Wordpress

This is a major redesign of the website for Chattanooga’s Main St Farmers Market. Local designers Widgets & Stone came up with the logos and suggested the look and feel, and I worked with Padgett Arnold to get the visuals and content just right. One interesting fact about the site: the web server is located [...]

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Craig Design Group Website

Landscape Architect Website with Slideshows & Social Media Integration

By on January 28, 2010 in Content Management Systems, Contracting, Portfolio, Wordpress

This is a simple website for a Chattanooga based landscape architect that focuses on beautiful portfolio slideshows. We’ve also added Twitter and Facebook integration to keep fans and customers updated on the latest projects. Incoming search terms for the article:landscape architecture portfoliolandscape architecture portfolio tipsarchitect websitebeautiful architecture portfoliolandscape architecture websitesarchitect web pagelandscape web page chris\

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