http://www.thejtsite.com/index.php en jt@thejtsite.com Copyright 2012 2012-01-31T19:47:42+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/the-challenge-if-you-choose-to-accept http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/the-challenge-if-you-choose-to-accept#When:19:47:42Z Our good friends over at CrossFit Advanced have put together a challenge coined 115 Royal Burpee Challenge, which will start February 11th and go through June 4th. The challenge is simple (well, explaining it is the simple part). Starting February 11th, do one burpee. Add one each day until June 4th, where the final day requires 115 burpees. So on February 12th, do 2 burpees. February 13th would be 3 burpees, and so on. Now the first question you may have is, ‘what is a burpee?’ Good question. A burpee is a full body exercise where you perform a couple movements which add up to one burpee. Here is a video example of an athlete doing burpees: Burpees were invented by Royal Huddleston Burpee of Easton, PA. This year would mark his 115th birthday. Hence the 115 Royal Burpee Challenge. Join in on the fun by signing up on Facebook and read the full press release here. If you participate, do not forget to order a tshirt as well. Order details will be coming soon. General, 2012-01-31T19:47:42+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/stay-on-your-feet-with-optimal-health-aesthetics http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/stay-on-your-feet-with-optimal-health-aesthetics#When:19:13:51Z Lehigh Valley Optimal Health & Aesthetics proudly provide services to help with pain and treatment of spinal pain, muscular pain, joint pain, and overall health and wellness. In need of a marketing push, OHA teamed up with us to put together some clean pieces together. Learn more about Optimal Health & Aesthetics at www.lvoha.com Projects, 2012-01-25T19:13:51+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/new-website-fogels-fuel-service-llc http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/new-website-fogels-fuel-service-llc#When:20:57:18Z We are proud to launch a new website for Fogel’s Fuel Service, LLC. Located in Nazareth, PA, Fogel’s Fuel proudly serves the Lehigh Valley with Oil, Propane, Kerosene and Ultra Low-Sulphur Diesel Fuel. Armed with a spiffy new website, Fogel’s Fuel is more than ready to help keep your temperatures comfortable 24/7. Thank you to J Taylor Design for a job well done. J Taylor Design was extremely knowledgeable on what our website needed and was patient in helping us to obtain our goal. We are looking forward to a long business relationship with J Taylor Design. Learn more about Fogel’s Fuel at www.fogelsfuel.com Projects, 2012-01-18T20:57:18+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/write-custom-phrase-shortcuts-on-your-iphone http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/write-custom-phrase-shortcuts-on-your-iphone#When:14:30:04Z We have been meaning to write up this post since the iOS 5 update was released for the iPhone this past October. Upon upgrading our iPhones, we noticed a nice new feature to create shortcuts, or ‘frequently used phrases’ when sending text messages. This certainly is not a new feature for cell phones in general, but it is a new feature for the iPhone that can come in handy. I use a few key phrases consistently when texting. Why waste time typing out the whole phrase when you can create a shortcut to drop your phrase into your text message? Simply go to Settings » General » Keyboard then scroll down to the bottom and tap Add New Shortcut… to get started. Create your own shortcuts so you can text friends and family quickly. That way, you can get back to browsing the internet or playing Words With Friends. An Added Bonus You are not only limited to using these phrase shortcuts when you are texting. You can also use your shortcuts when emailing, writing notes, and anything that involves typing on your device. Apple, 2012-01-16T14:30:04+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/updated-project-suzanne-nd http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/updated-project-suzanne-nd#When:15:02:33Z Our good friends at Suzanne ND are taking a break from business for a few months. With that, they wanted to swap out their full website with a short message noting their absence. They gave us their text as well as the idea of a bear hibernating. From there we put our creativity to work and are pretty proud of the results. Check out the site for yourself. And if you are interested in their services, sign up for the newsletter. Projects, 2012-01-11T15:02:33+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/auto-update-copyright-year-in-expressionengine http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/auto-update-copyright-year-in-expressionengine#When:18:54:50Z A couple years ago, we wrote an entry on using PHP to auto update the copyright year on websites built on WordPress and other PHP websites. However, if you are building a site in ExpressionEngine, it is advised to utilize EE code when possible over PHP. Allowing a copyright year to auto update is easy to do in ExpressionEngine thanks to the current_time variable, which still functions using PHP date variables. Simply drop the following in your theme and you are all set. Copyright © {current_time format="%Y"} We wish everyone a happy and successful 2012! Tutorials, 2012-01-02T18:54:50+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/dear-clients-thank-you http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/dear-clients-thank-you#When:22:02:03Z It is amazing how quickly the year goes by. Looking back at 2011, we can proudly say that we made a lot of new friends, worked on a lot of great projects, and continued to hone our craft to be able to provide our clients with the best products possible. Thank you for making 2011 our best year yet! Here is a short list of some featured projects from this past year: Hess Landscape Architects Law Offices Of Elissa Waldron Advantage Storage & Rental Alexandria Manor Sue Ames Bridal Outlet Wright Veterinary Medical Center CrossFit Advanced New Lifestyle Fitness Stotz & Fatzinger Ballet Guild Of The Lehigh Valley Advanced Cross Training I Am by Catherines New Attitude Salon Abes Cold Beer General, 2011-12-21T22:02:03+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/pay-it-forward-by-lucky-girl-gifts http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/pay-it-forward-by-lucky-girl-gifts#When:20:14:34Z I know that we have mentioned it before, but we have some great clients here at J Taylor Design. One of those shining stars is Lucky Girl Jewelry & Gifts. Through December, Lucky Girl is running a Pay It Forward campaign where they are giving away gifts each Friday. The cool part is that the winner cannot keep the gift for themselves, or give it as a typical gift to someone (ex: for Christmas or a birthday). The gift must be given when it is least expected. To join in the fun, start by liking the Lucky Girl Facebook page. Each Friday they will post an item that you can win by sharing or commenting on the post. That is all you have to do to enter! As the owner of Lucky Girl Jewelry & Gifts puts it, “The results have been so rewarding!” Visit Lucky Girl Jewelry & Gifts Facebook Page Visit Lucky Girl Jewelry & Gifts General, 2011-12-13T20:14:34+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/our-thoughts-itunes-match http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/our-thoughts-itunes-match#When:22:27:28Z This week we have been test driving iTunes Match, the latest service from iTunes where you have the ability to store your music collection in the iCloud for access via your iTunes ready devices. All in all it works great. It is pretty easy to setup. Simply have all the music you would like to include in iTunes on your computer. To sign up, click the Store menu in iTunes and choose Turn On iTunes Match. Then choose Subscribe to iTunes Match. After you sign up, let iTunes handle the rest of the work for you. It will scan your library, match your songs with what is available on the iTunes store, and upload everything that is not available. Turn On iTunes Match On Your iOS 5 Devices Next you may want to enable iTunes match on your iPhone or iPad to access your library. To do so, go to Settings » Music and turn iTunes Match on. When you do so, you will get a pop up letting you know that your current library on your device will be replaced with your iTunes Match library. As long as you have the songs on your phone in your iTunes Match library, feel free to move forward. By default, your entire library will show up on your device. Depending on how large your library is, that may be a lot of music. So you may want to get everything you want on your device, then turn off Show All Music from the Music settings so you only see what is downloaded to your device. Turn On iTunes Match On A Different Computer If you have a second computer that you use and want to enable iTunes Match, click the Store menu in iTunes and choose Turn On iTunes Match. If you are logged in using the same Apple ID, it should automatically recognize that you are signed up for the service. Please note that you can only sync one computer at a time, so you may have to let one computer finish updating before you can enable iTunes Match on another. Stream From Your Computer - Download From iOS5 One of the cool parts about using iTunes Match from your computer is that you can stream your library as opposed to having to download the tracks. For songs that are available on the iTunes Store, the quality is top notch even if you matched a poor quality version. So not only do you get great sound quality, but you do not need to take up storage space on your computer for your iTunes library. Unfortunately on your iPhone, iPad and other iOS5 devices, you have to download the songs to be able to listen to them. This is not a huge hassle, but streaming would be nice to allow more space for Apps, Photos, and Movies. Quirks and Complaints iTunes Match is still new and I am sure will progress over time. Regardless, here are some issues we have run into that may be beneficial to know. Transfer From iMac/MacBook to iPhone/iPad Quirky Once iTunes Match is enabled on both your computer and iPhone, if you try to drag music from the computer to your plugged in iPhone, it will give you a little message saying the song needs to be downloaded before it can be added to the device. Even if the songs is downloaded from the iCloud first you still get the error message. The only way around this from what we have found is to turn off iTunes Match on your iPhone, reconnect your phone to your computer, then drag the songs to the device. When you have finished, enable iTunes Match again on your phone to be able to access your library on the fly. The alternative is to manually download items directly from your phone. Turning Off/On ‘Show All Music’ From iPhone/iPad From the computer, it is easy to enable or disable what music is shown in iTunes. Say you have 10k songs in your library. It may take quite a long time to browse through and find what you want. If you know that you want to listen to something that is downloaded to your iTunes library, then you can hide everything else and browse with ease by going to the View menu and choosing Show/Hide Music Not On This Computer. From your iPhone or iPad, however, it is not as easy to change what is showing. Like we mentioned above, you have to go to Settings » Music to turn off or on the ‘Show All Music’ option. So if you are browsing your library and decide you want to enable or disable showing all music, you need to leave the Music app to go to settings and follow the steps. It would be nice if there was a quick way to do this right from within the Music app. Conclusion For $25 a year, the convenience is pretty nice and you have your library with you at all times. There are quirks which I would assume will get worked out over time. If you are an iTunes user and have multiple iTunes ready devices, or simply want to just save space on your computer, iTunes Match might be a good fit for you. Apple, 2011-11-29T22:27:28+00:00 http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/beware-bogus-website-bills http://www.thejtsite.com/blog/single/beware-bogus-website-bills#When:22:01:19Z Today we got a bill in the mail from a web listing provider noting an annual listing submission that needed to be paid. We quickly recognized that this was a bogus bill that we had never signed up for. Unfortunately, invoices like this are not all that uncommon and it becomes important to know what bills are legitimate. Know Your Provider Know where your website hosting and domain name(s) are purchased from. If you are familiar with whom you are supposed to be paying, you will be able to detect actual bills from the bogus ones. If you are not sure if a bill is real or not, ask your web design company. General, 2011-11-22T22:01:19+00:00