Monthly Archives: January 2011
Posted by Michael Alfaro on January 24, 2011
Renowned pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma L.P., donned 2010 as the year they would launch their new, corporate website. Happy with Local Wisdom’s work on their sister site, PartnersAgainstPain.com, Purdue called upon Local Wisdom to tackle this redesign project.
In collaboration with New York-based agency, Rosetta, the Local Wisdom team brought Rosetta’s designs to life. Purdue requested the site be built in SharePoint as the platform continues to be the CMS of choice within Purdue. Knowing this would be both teams’ first external-facing SharePoint Internet site, Local Wisdom took this challenge head on.
Develop
The development of this site was approached in two stages: HTML then SharePoint. In accordance with FDA regulations, the site content had to go through an extensive legal review process before it could launch. Following approval, the SharePoint build commenced.
Our SharePoint developers got to work building master templates and migrating content. Once the site was ready for testing, we worked closely with Purdue IT to transition the site from Local Wisdom’s development server to Purdue’s server.
How did it go?
Knowledge sharing and customer service are two principles that embody the Local Wisdom philosophy. Knowing this was the first time both teams would launch an external SharePoint site, Local Wisdom was on-call 24/7 as the Purdue IT team transitioned the site to their production server. Unveiled to the entire company via a town hall meeting, the new PurduePharma.com received rave reviews.
LWers
Melissa Penta (develop)
Tim Carter (develop)
Tracy Severino (project management)
Pinaki Kathiari (account management)
Topics: development, internet
Posted by Michael Alfaro on January 24, 2011
Purdue Pharmaceuticals, makers of OxyContin® and other pharmaceuticals, were redesigning their website called Partners Against Pain. Partners Against Pain is a resource for patients, caregivers, and medical professionals to come together in an effort to advance standards of pain care. With an overarching goal of alleviating pain through continued research and advocacy, the Partners Against Pain website contains downloadable tool kits, a monthly e-newsletter, and other timely information about pain treatment.
Local Wisdom was hired for this project in collaboration with New York-based agency, Rosetta. This project required true collaboration and partnership as Local Wisdom worked hand-in-hand with the Rosetta team to transform their designs and wireframes into a live website in a matter of five weeks. On top of our partnership with Rosetta, we collaborated with our stakeholders at Purdue to manage content updates, as necessitated for all pharma websites.
Development
In a few weeks, our team was able to develop fully functioning HTML. Our flexible nature allowed us to produce several iterations of the website PDF allowing Purdue’s regulatory and legal teams to review the content as mandated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
In the end, Local Wisdom met the aggressive timeline, producing the final site in five weeks.
How did it go?
Local Wisdom accepts aggressive deadlines with passion and commitment. As a late-stage “pinch hitter,” we were able to work with new colleagues to code the site and produce edits quickly. Sharing a client’s urgency is our priority, and with keen attention-to-detail and nimble response efforts, Purdue was able to achieve their goals for the newly redesigned Partners Against Pain website.
LWers
Melissa Penta (develop)
Tracy Severino (project management)
Pinaki Kathiari (account management)
Topics: development, internet
Posted by Michael Alfaro on January 24, 2011
Challenge
Avis Yates Rivers, President and CEO of Technology Concepts Group International (TCGi), called us with a challenge. She and her company were being featured in Minority Business Entrepreneur magazine for being the only minority and woman-owned IT infrastructure company in the country that serves Fortune 500 businesses. To boost the impact of this new publicity, the company needed to redesign their website and present themselves as the leading-edge technology company that they are.
Design
From our design discovery process we drew a vision for a website that looked “uniquely familiar.” In other words, the website layout should be similar to the corporate websites of their clients, yet showcase the distinctive culture of Avis and her company. We started by creating a simple content flow that stemmed from their services, into their values, and ended on establishing contact. Our creative was rooted in the icon of the TCGi logo using it as ambiance throughout the website. The design ultimately focused on short, to-the-point copy that complemented the TCGi no-nonsense business approach.
Develop
The website was developed within a WordPress blog using Jquery and PHP. Due to the timeline to launch, copy was being written as the website was being developed. This helped copywriters see their copy directly on the website and make edits accordingly. Because of this, testing went much quicker making QA and launch a breeze.
How did it go?
Using WordPress for the website gave the TGCi public relations team easy-to-use content management capabilities, a means of posting a stream of technology and business related articles, and opportunity for content to be shared over a host of social networking sites.
We forged a true partnership with TCGi, and launched on time. Avis and her team love their new website because they can confidently send their URL to the CTOs of Fortune 500 companies and know that the site reflects the strength, quality, and savvy of TCGi.
LWers
RJay Haluko (design)
Melissa Penta (develop)
Tracy Severino (project management)
Derrick Larane (account management)
Topics: design, development, internet
Posted by Pinaki Kathiari on January 15, 2011
This was a blast from the past. Just found out about this
from joystiq.com. Sarien.net has a bunch of
Sierra adventure games that are playable on the iPad. You can play
Space Quest, King’s Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry. These kids don’t
know how good they have it with their Wii’s and PS3s on hi-def
TVs.
Topics: iPhone, video games
Posted by Pinaki Kathiari on January 10, 2011
Gilang Chandrasa posted an article on komunitasweb.com housing a collection of 9 very nice presentations on User Experience. Very good read for beginners to get a foothold or experts to take a step back.
Topics: design, information architecture, inspiration, interfaces, marketing, Microsoft
Posted by Michael Alfaro on January 6, 2011
Been running into this error when the POP3 connector for SBS 2008 can’t download certain messages from the pop server. The error in the log is:
The “MAIL FROM” address (“MAILER-DAEMON”, from header field “Return-Path”) was rejected.
In the event viewer, it shows up as:
“One or more (1) e-mail messages in the POP3 mailbox account ‘XX@XX.com’ on the POP3 server ‘emailserver.com’ have invalid header fields. Because of this, the messages cannot be delivered to the Exchange Server mailbox ‘XX@XX.com’ in Windows Small Business Server. The messages are still on the POP3 server. To resolve this issue, connect to the POP3 mailbox account, and then manually retrieve or delete the messages.”
After a couple of hours of searching and finding very little, I hit gold (an article on a microsoft site with an answer)!
Here’s the short version to fix the problem:
1. From an elevated Exchange Management Shell (Exchange Powershell window) (right click on “Start–>Microsoft Exchange Server 2007–>Exchange Management Shell” and then choose “Run as administrator”) run the following Powershell commands
2. In most occasions, as a resolution, you can configure the ”DefaultDomain” property to match your local domain name on the “Sharepoint Fax Receive Connector”. This will append the SMTP domain name on email with an incomplete return path as described above. To accomplish this, run the following command:
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity ($Env:computername + “\Windows SBS Fax Sharepoint Receive ” + $Env:computername) -DefaultDomain $Env:UserDNSDomain
3. However, this might not help with all the situations leading up to this situation. Sometimes the invalid header found on the e-mail is not recoverable. Follow the alternate workaround to get mail flowing again if that is the case.
The workaround is to increase the “MaxProtocolErrors” property of the Windows SBS Fax Sharepoint Receive connector, and then restart the Exchange Transport service for the change to take effect (and you’ll have to restart the pop3connector service, too, since it depends on the Exchange Transport service). Unfortunately, you can’t set that property from the Exchange management GUI, so you have to do it from an (elevated) Exchange Powershell prompt. Here are the instructions:
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity ($Env:computername + “\Windows SBS Fax Sharepoint Receive ” + $Env:computername) -MaxProtocolErrors 500
Stop-Service pop3connector
Restart-Service -force MSExchangeTransport
Start-Service pop3connector
4. After done, you can check the settings by displaying them in your command prompt, just run this:
Get-ReceiveConnector ($Env:computername + “\Windows SBS Fax Sharepoint Receive ” + $Env:computername) |format-list
If you want to read the whole article, here’s the source:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/07/01/sbs-2008-introducing-the-pop3-connector.aspx
Enjoy and hopefully this will save you hours of research!
Topics: business, internet, Microsoft, technology
Posted by Christine Robinson on January 5, 2011
Year end and New Year love go out to our family members:
Birthdays
Joseph Fonte, 12/9
Michael Alfaro, 12/14
Anniversaries
RJay Haluko, 1/5
Eric Williamson, 1/19
