Thanks for visiting Feidt Design!

Aug-17-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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Hey all,
Thanks for stopping by the brand-new FeidtDesign.com. I've just launched a new business to meet the ever-growing need for solid website development, social media, tech training and all that other good stuff.

I'm hoping that this site turns out to be far more useful than the usual brochureware sites that clog the Internet. Most of the work I hope to do involves open source software, and it's only proper to offer up tips and constructive help for dealing with the really nifty world of open-source. Thus, Projects & Notes will offer helpful material for all.

I'm offering a bunch of different services for folks to check out. The blog will have more narrative-style posts about the biz. Contact me if you're interested in talking about things.

Pretty straightforward? This site (and the business!) is brand new, so it'll take a bit of polishing yet. However, I think that you'll eventually find it a useful resource. Register if you like -- FeidtDesign.com is intended to be participatory!

Thanks for stopping by!
--Dan Feidt, August 17, 2009

MidwestBankruptcy.com - Midwest Bankruptcy of North St. Paul "by the Snowman"

Mar-9-2010 - by Dan Feidt
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With a Snowman favicon win, MidwestBankruptcy.com is a site for recruiting bankruptcy cases for my friend Nathan Hansen, whose law firm / "DEBT RELIEF AGENCY" (which is legally required to be pasted on these sites!) in North St. Paul liberates people from banksters & creditors. Fishing people out of the crushing debt traps of our day is a serious task, full of strange rules, so the goal was a site easy to edit and useful for people looking for info on bankruptcy.

Getting a sense of trust is important in a business site, so the Socialite module, which streamlines adding Facebook/Twitter/Avvo (a lawyer rating service) easily to a sidebar block, lets visitors easily check out the blog. Also used iPaper/Scribd to show PDFs.
Another cool module was rounded edges in the primary menu via jQuery. jQuery/rounded corners didn't seem compatible with centering the menu tho.

DanPowers.org - Dan Powers, DFLer for MN's 2nd Congressional District

Mar-9-2010 - by Dan Feidt
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DanPowers.org, a FEC-compatible federal congressional campaign website advocating DFLer Dan Powers (in Minnesota we call Democrats DFLers, for Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party). It was a collaborative project with a few other folks and turned out nicely, in part due to a great template I built from. This was done using the Fusion theme, which I've become a huge fan of. The Facebook/Twitter look is nice, and it was helpful that Facebook FanBox' blue trim matches the site's blue color scheme.

It's got a nice events calendar, a standard blog page, and a front page using Panels/Ctools, which I really enjoyed. I liked the font [two main fonts, actually] as well -- it led me into looking up which fonts are really available for use on Interwebs nowadays. Powers' opponent, Republican US Rep. John Kline, is deeply uncool on many levels, so it was fun for me to get a site out there against him!

MN Paid Sick Days Coalition

Mar-9-2010 - by Dan Feidt
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The Minnesota Paid Sick Days Coalition (PaidsickdaysMN.com) was a fun project; the goal was to make a straightforward presentation of the social and economic benefits of paid sick days in Minnesota. I decided to step things up with Scribd and iPaper module to serve up presentation of PDFs -- after all, everyone hates downloading PDFs to look at 'em.

Another important feature was using Webform to handle forms for stories of Minnesotans' health/workplace problems. Also has the Facebook/Twitter integration de rigeur.

Great Horse Group - American-Indian Architecture portfolio

Dec-29-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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Great Horse Group is a new architecture firm specializing in American-Indian architecture and master planning, out of KKE and AmerIndian Architecture. This site was designed to showcase individual projects and provide the most flexibility for staff to add and modify the projects.

ExceptionMag.com - Maine news from The Exception Magazine

Dec-29-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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Exception Magazine was developed with Liberalati LLC on Drupal 6 as the premier portal for electronic news in Maine, including political news. It automatically feeds into Twitter; other features include section RSS feeds and embedded video handling.

Nodequeues enable customizing the look of the major section landing pages.ImageCache and a polished Zen-based theme make a really nice-looking news portal.

MyRapidReport.com - YouTube video upload module for news

Dec-29-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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MyRapidReport.com is my first full project under the Feidt Design flag. It's a project of TheUptake.org and The Media Consortium. I developed a custom Drupal 6 module for directly uploading video clips from the client browser to YouTube without a login.

BouncerFighter.com - Minneapolis band site

Dec-29-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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BouncerFighter.com - a pretty straightforward Drupal 6 band website. Bouncer Fighter is a Minneapolis band, friends of mine and a lot of fun to watch.

The site features an events calendar, organized links, embedded videos with thumbnails, and a randomized image bar. It also has a Facebook inline JavaScript fan box and uses Socialite module to present social network links nicely. Pretty straightforward CCK fields including emfield and link.

The White House seems to like the business plan!

Aug-15-2009 - by Dan Feidt
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A week ago, I had just filed Feidt Design LLC with the Minnesota Secretary of State's office -- so the rest of the day, of course, I was watching for omens about the business.

Fortunately, I caught a message on Twitter (via @ebeyrent originally)... there was quite a site sight to see on WhiteHouse.gov/realitycheck/node:

White House Drupal siteIt was really nice for the White House to show me that Drupal development is taking off in the highest of places! (The "empty site" message was only up for a few hours, and quickly got cleaned up.)

Seriously, though, the Obama Administration has really given Drupal a leg up by using it as the content management system for Recovery.gov.

Lots of political operations are starting to use Drupal a lot, including consultants like Blue State Digital, the extensive official New York Senate site (developed by Advomatic), not to mention numerous overseas government offices. Even the Council on Foreign Relations' magazine Foreign Affairs uses Drupal now!

If you've never heard of Drupal, watch this 1-minute video to get the quick scoop. All in all, I feel pretty good about using Drupal as my primary Web development platform.

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