WordPress 3.8 Released

WordPress.org recently released Version 3.8 of WordPress, named “Parker” in honor of Charlie Parker. This update focuses primarily on improving the user interface for administrators by incorporating the work done on the “secret” MP6 Plugin into WordPress core. The update presents a cleaner and fully responsive admin area, allowing site owners to manage their site seamlessly from any device. Just as…

Internet Explorer 7 Browser Support & Market Share

      Part of our efforts at Hall, to always be innovating, involves constantly reviewing the technology we’re using to get the job done. Whether it’s a piece of software we use to power our agency internally, a content management system like WordPress, or even the browsers that people are using to view the…

Growing Your Community – WordCamp Boston 2013

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Boston, a yearly conference all about WordPress held locally. As you’d imagine, it was a weekend filled with talks and presentations, tutorials and ideas. But the greatest part for me was getting a chance to meet and hang out with some great local people from…

Iconic Fonts Explained – What They Are and Why You Should Use Them

Iconic fonts are scalable vector icons that can be customized through CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) just like any other font. This gives you the ability to easily edit the size, color, drop shadows and more all through CSS without needing to bug your designer to export additional images. The result is a crisp clean look…