1955 Design Blog Archives
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You are now viewing the 1955 Design blog archive for “January of 2007” category. This is a subset of all of our blog articles. Enjoy!
In my continuing quest to learn more about website development and to make updating websites easier for my clients, I have finally gotten elbow deep into learning how to customize WordPress.
Designing my own WordPress theme from scratch is far in the future, but I have been tweaking and modifying various other themes for several weeks now, with some considerable progress being made in my understanding of how the WordPress code is written. I am actually starting to feel fairly confident about it, which means that I am probably about to suffer some setback, as this often occurs when I start to feel I am mastering something.
Complete: I have just completed a new project for a southeastern Michigan landscape design contractor, Willson Steinkopf.
This project, as with several others I have done, involved working with a Detroit area marketing firm. It was necessary to coordinate the design of this site so that it fit with the flavor of the existing print adverstising that was in use. It was a fun project and I am pleased with the results!
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From time to time I restore old rotary dial telephones. I have learned how to clean, shine and make these old Western Electric rotary dial phones come back to life.
Yesterday I finished the restoration of one of these phones. This phone is a 1958 avocado green wall phone. The phone is beautiful and in terrific conditon. Although I cannot guarantee it, I have every reason to believe that this phone will continue working admirably for the next 49 years just has it has done for the past forty nine years! The phone comes complete with a modern day backplate so that you can attach it directly to your existing wall plate and begin using it immediately! The phone has been thoroughly cleaned, detailed, polished and wired so that it will work with modern residential wiring.