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Encrypting your web.config

By Wesley Kos  |  Monday, February 11, 2013 |  , , ,  |  Leave comment

When you need to include a plaintext password in your web.config you should probably encrypt it.

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How to Fix Asp.net MVC Web Api HTTP PUT and DELETE requests failing

By Jason Prothero  |  Wednesday, November 14, 2012 |  , , ,  |  4 comments

ASP.NET MVC 4 has a new feature called WebAPI which makes it much easier to create a REST API in ASP.NET. Unfortunately, I ran into one problem with IIS 6.0 that prevented the full REST spec from being used. By default IIS 6 wouldn't allow the PUT or DELETE verbs to be used with the WebAPI app that we created.  Detailed inside is the solution I found.

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It's Very Clear Mobile Is Here

By Rob Birdwell  |  Thursday, November 01, 2012 |  , , ,  |  2 comments

How does your site look on an iPhone, Windows Phone, iPad or Nexus Tablet?  If you're Ken Saul of Ultra-Pure Oils you can say "It looks great" - and so do his customers!  But many sites aren't set up to display nicely on mobile devices. Mobile and tablet devices are no longer the exception - they're the norm.

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Make Your Own QR Code for Free in Just Seconds

By Nicole Weathers  |  Wednesday, September 26, 2012 |  , , ,  |  2 comments

QR codes may or may not be the way of the future but they are everywhere.  

There are many creative ways large and small businesses can be using them.

As fancy and technical as they look, anyone can make a QR code for free in just about a minute.

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An Easy Way To Test Your Website On Mobile and Tablet Views

By Jason Prothero  |  Tuesday, September 25, 2012 |  , , ,  |  Leave comment

Want an easy way to test a website in various mobile forms?  We have found a great tool called The Responsinator that does just that.  Check it out!

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Umbraco Training Day 1

By Wesley Kos  |  Tuesday, September 11, 2012 |  , , , , , ,  |  4 comments

Today is the first day of my umbraco certification training level 1. We discussed the basics of We covered Content, Document Types, Templates, Stylesheets, XSLT macros, Razor Macros, and Multi-Lingual websites.

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What does ProWorks do? and What do You do there?

By Nicole Weathers  |  Wednesday, August 29, 2012 |  , , , ,  |  Leave comment

Since coming joining the ProWorks team in May, almost once a day I am asked

"What the heck does ProWorks do?" and "What do you do there?"

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Using Style Tiles to Start a Web Design Project

By Alan Ballard  |  Thursday, August 02, 2012 |  ,  |  5 comments
I started using a new technique to kick off web design projects and It's working out great! "Style Tiles" are quick snippets of web design patterns meant to convey an overall feeling of the design rather than defining specifics, and it's a great way to get the client involved in the first steps of thier site. Read More >

A Problem With JSON

By Wesley Kos  |  Wednesday, July 25, 2012 |  , , , ,  |  1 comment
An incorrectly formatted JSON object causing the Savages and Scoundrels Timeline to not function properly. The JSON object was formatted correctly, but there was a problem with the values inside the JSON object. Read More >

How We Built the Da Vinci Days Mobile Website

By Jason Prothero  |  Friday, July 20, 2012 |  , , , ,  |  6 comments

Last year we (ProWorks) created a mobile site for theda Vinci Days festival that is held in Corvallis every July.  We had created the initial site the previous year and with the rise of mobile and the fact that most people will only have a small screen at the event, it was a must have.  Of course, responsive web design was just becoming a thing and we had a decision to make: responsive or separate site?

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