RYANESAKI.COM » Wordpress http://ryanesaki.com I Make Things with Imaginary Hands Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:03:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Eatkauai.com is LIVE! http://ryanesaki.com/2009/12/eatkauai-com-is-live/ http://ryanesaki.com/2009/12/eatkauai-com-is-live/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:45:13 +0000 Ryan http://ryanesaki.com/?p=194
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eatkauai.com

Hey everyone, well it’s Sunday, just about 1 week since I announced my website in a week challenge and I’m glad to say, eatkauai.com beta is up and running! It was a very tiring week finishing an entire website from start to finish in one week but I think it will be a very valuable resource to the people of Kauai.

Currently, we only have a few menu listings but we plan to continue to add more and more to the database until we pretty much have every restaurant on Kauai. There are a bunch of features I have planned out but one step at a time, getting this website up was the first step.

Please check it out and comment and rate your favorite restaurants. Please let me know what you think as well.

Ok, I’m off to help my dad prep for his company Christmas party. Happy Eating everyone!

]]> http://ryanesaki.com/2009/12/eatkauai-com-is-live/feed/ 0 Launched Kapaahighschoolfoundation.org http://ryanesaki.com/2009/06/launched-kapaahighschoolfoundationorg/ http://ryanesaki.com/2009/06/launched-kapaahighschoolfoundationorg/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:06:10 +0000 Ryan http://ryanesaki.com/?p=118 In March I was approached to redesign the website for the Kapaa High School Foundation. The Foundation was started in 1995 to provide financial support for students and programs at Kapaa High School (my alma mater).  Despite the size of the group, which is just a handful of individuals, the foundation has been able to do tremendous things for the school, creating scholarships, awards for outstanding educators, and field donations for athletic programs and events like project grad.

The tragedy about the foundation is that despite all that they do, their acts often go unrecognized. I felt that a new website would be the key to shine the light on what these people are actually doing.

Their website at that point had not been updated in over a year and was very outdated in both design and content. With no content management system in place, everything on the site was hand coded html and uploaded one at a time with an ftp client.

Their new website is powered by WordPress and is now easy to update. Hopefully this new website can serve as the showcase of their efforts and get them the recognition that they deserve.

Kapaahighschoolfoundation.org

]]> http://ryanesaki.com/2009/06/launched-kapaahighschoolfoundationorg/feed/ 0 Why I Love WordPress http://ryanesaki.com/2008/10/why-i-love-wordpress/ http://ryanesaki.com/2008/10/why-i-love-wordpress/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:52 +0000 Ryan http://ryanesaki.com/?p=82 When people hear WordPress, majority of them (if they even know what it is) think blogging software. I love WordPress. Blogging to me is the best way to serve up daily, weekly or any kind of regular content. But, I love WordPress for more than that, it is quickly becoming a very powerful content management system or CMS. In fact, almost all sites I build for clients today are built on WordPress.

Here are just some of the advantages to using WordPress other than a traditional CMS

  1. Quick and Easy install
  2. W3C valid css and xhtml
  3. Open Source with no licensing fees (savings passed on to clients)
  4. Modular feature design via plugins
  5. Best spamblocking utilitiy ever (Akismet)
  6. Can be used on almost any hosting plan
  7. Easy to use Administration

I could go on and on forever, but to majority of the people reading this blog, that list doesn’t mean much so let me explain it is more accessible way. WordPress is free to use, there are no licensing fees, you’re not tied to any one hosting plan, it’s built correctly and will help you in search engine rank, and it’s easy to use.

The biggest gripe about using wordpress as a CMS is that the site will still look like a blog. I just have the laugh when I hear this. Here are some examples of websites built on WordPress either by me, or someone who has stated it was built on wordpress.

Derekkawakami.com – I built this site for Derek this year with WordPress.

Hawaiiskindiver.com – This site was built by Giddymachine for HSD using wordpress

Revision3.com – This site was built by their team on wordpress.

As you can see these don’t look or function like blog sites, yet they are all running on a “blogging software”.  WordPress will get the job done for 90% of clients. There will always be a few who require custom applications, but the plugin database is growing daily and I wouldn’t be surprised within the next 5 years that WordPress is the king of content management.

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