New Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Website Completed

by emily on April 10, 2009

The website needed to engage the community…

The new Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (MFA) website is up and running. Grid Design Firm worked with MFA in completing the project - which features a completely new design, content and interactive calendar.  We were given the task of creating a website that would provide the museum an online presence equal to its internationally respected position.  In addition, the website needed to engage the community and provide a way for patrons to keep up to date on events and exhibitions at the museum.  The website was redesigned in a clean, modern, easy to navigate aesthetic.

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg has enjoyed positive momentum and tremendous growth within the past few years - including the new Hazel Hough Wing opened in 2008, which houses the MFA Cafe´, exhibition galleries and an incredible view of the downtown waterfront.  The new wing also serves as an outstanding venue for everything from fundraisers to lively music series put on by MFA.  Having attended many, we can tell you it is definitely worth checking out and is a welcome new venue in the Tampa Bay area.  The museum is constantly also putting on various events for both adults and families.  The local community and visitors alike can now follow these events and obtain information about on them by checking the interactive calendar on the website.

We were very fortunate to have been part of the the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg’s path to continued success.

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St. Pete Neighborhood Gets Interactive - NEPNA Website Launched

by kevin on April 10, 2009

Grid Design Firm helped us become One Interactive Community!

Northeast Park Neighborhood Association (NEPNA) - located in northeast St. Petersburg, FL - enlisted our services in designing and developing its new website as part of its ‘One Interactive Community’ campaign.  Drawing upon ideals that seemed to have been lost in the past decades, NEPNA is promoting community engagement and interaction through neighborhood committees and events that empower neighborhood residents to take charge and shape their community.

Under the guidance of its new President - also my brother - Darren Bishop and the NEPNA Leadership members, NEPNA is creating committees that include Livable Streets, Green Thumb Club, Fun, Beautification, Welcome Wagon and Crime/Codes.  It’s all in an effort to engage neighborhood residents in creating a vibrant, active, involved and for lack of a better term - a fun neighborhood to live in.

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St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Helps Local Economy by - Outsourcing to India?

by kevin on April 9, 2009

This is a bit off topic from our usual posts but the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, you know the one that is supposed to promote local business, is somehow doing this by……outsourcing its website design and development to India?  In a move that could only be done by this Chamber, they are actually encouraging their members to do so as well!

The Chamber and Direct to India

We made the foolish mistake of joining the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce last year and almost instantly knew that we should have just given the money to a deserving charity instead of paying the membership fee.  That’s fine - we gave away a few bucks but learned a lesson.

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Tip: How to edit .htaccess file on a MAC

by emily on April 8, 2009

MAC web designers and web developers know the difficulty in editing the .htaccess file on MAC systems. The file can be seen through FTP programs, but when you attempt to download the file, it is hidden and not available on your system for review, editing, etc. How can MAC users edit the .htaccess file?

A quick fix for this is to not use your FTP program, but instead login to your hosting account and navigate to the File Manager. (STEP 1.) Once inside the file manager, navigate to the .htaccess file and choose ‘edit’. (STEP 2.) From here you can complete your redirect edits and then save them, as well as modify any file/folder permissions. This tip of thinking outside the ‘FTP box’ will allow any MAC user, who can access their file manager within their hosting account, to edit a .htaccesss file.

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