Foster Solutions

Francesca Stanfill – Author

Francesca Stanfill is a published author who needed her website migrated to a CMS, so she can write and edit on her own website. Her site was “rebuilt” to look as it did but on a WordPress / Genesis platform. FSI is also consulting on a strategy to work with online publishing and social media. (read more)

To Push or Pull between your Website and FaceBook/Twitter

It has become mandatory to use Facebook and Twitter as part of your website marketing strategy.  The development environment for both Facebook and Twitter is finally getting to a point to allow good integration among the various platforms. This can be a formidable task for the developer/consultant as well as the client to understand how [...] (read more)

Foster Custom Kitchens

Foster Custom Kitchens helps its clients design, build and install high end kitchens, baths and cabinets in all parts of the house.  It also has commercial clients. FSI built its landing page and is in process of completing a completely new website using the Genesis framework for WordPress. P.S.  Yes, the name is no coincidence.  [...] (read more)

Experts Exchange — Your online staff

Experts Exchange is a great service where you can post your programming issue and you will more likely get a quick and professional response.  You can either earn points by answering other questions or you can pay a monthly fee. This is the best service I’ve seen by far and I have been using it [...] (read more)

MarkNet Group

FSI partners with The MarkNet Group to build small and medium sized websites based on the Genesis Framework for WordPress. The MarkNet group has a team of more than 10 programmers that can build scalable websites, with strong graphic design skills and SEO expertise. (read more)

WordPress: Image floats not breaking for next listing

If images are float left on a listing/blog page and the next item doesn’t break below the image but continues to wrap around it, you need to add a float:left and clear: both to a class in the style.css. � See below � #featured-bottom .featuredpost .post, #featured-bottom .featuredpage .page { margin: 0 0 10px 0; [...] (read more)

Embracing Your Life

Embracing your Life is an illustrated book by award winning Jenny Vainisi. FSI built the site in WordPress using the Genesis framework and the Prose child theme as a foundation. The site includes a slider showing sample pages and Jenny’s beautiful artwork. (read more)

Gravity Forms worth the money for WordPress surveys

Gravity forms is a plugin for WordPress to build forms for surveys and mailings.  It isn’t free, but well worth the price as a very well designed product.   If  you are in the business of building websites, you inevitably will be needing to have at least a contact form on each of your sites, and [...] (read more)

Angels In Design

Angels in Design is a new business that needed a high-end but affordable website. Foster Solutions used StudioPress’ Genesis framework to build an elegant site with a dynamic feature image with text and other features such as gravity forms. FSI partnered with premier designer Jenny Vainisi for the logo and supporting graphic items. (read more)

SQL Server Function to Parse Names

Parsing names is an age-old process of taking a full name (i.e. “Mr. John C. Smith, Jr.”) and extracting the first name, last name, middle name, etc. The following SQL Server function handles 99% of the situations, including prefixes, suffixes and hyphenated names.  It will get tripped up with two first names, but that is [...] (read more)