New Wordpress Theme

Just finished redesigning my personal blog, geotravel.ca, with a fresh new Wordpress theme. This design was started in Photoshop and then painstakingly cut, cropped and molded into the sight it is now. The project took about 3 weeks from start to finish. This includes the reediting of all the blog images to fit the new format and style use. There are several custom php scripts written to generate photo gallery’s for each post, if one exists.

All in all a great project.

Welcome to Host Mechanics

Thanks for stopping by and visiting us here at the Host Mechanics Design Studio.

We hope you can find something to your liking here at Host Mechanics. We encourage all our users to browse around to see just what we can do for you, by some chance, can’t find just what it is you are looking for then please contact us using either the “Contact form” to your left or by sending one of our developers an email.

• Joseph Newing: jnewing@hostmech.com
• Geo Kearley: gkearley@hotmail.com

We’re looking forward to hearing from you and hope we can help you and your business in the near future.

New Disign and Direction

While we will still be keeping up with the projects we are currently involved in, Host Mechanics is shifting it’s direction and is becoming more and more a web design studio.

We now specialize in creating Wordpress powered sites we develop and design custom clean, elegant looking Wordpress templates for a nominal fee. Also in an effort to get our name out there, and preview the top quality work we do we will be offering up some free templates for download as well.

To top everything off we offer custom Wordpress plugin development.

markViewer Open Source Project

The markViewer Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the start of development of markViewer 2.0 on June 2nd, 2007. The project is community and Host Mechanics driven and will produce an open source version of markViewer that will form the core of all other markViewer products.

markViewer is an online mark reporting system that allows teachers to post reports from Asylum’s MarkBook grade book program to the Internet so parents and students can check up on course progress over the at any time. With this change in direction we are hoping to take the this web base application to the next level, with direct input from the teachers, students, and parents that will be using the application.

What is the markViewer Open Source project?
markViewer Open Source is the open source project that will consist of a GPL-licensed version of markViewer 2.0, to be released in Q1 2008, and resources for the already large community of markViewer users.

Development Goals

• to have users help determine the scope and direction of future markViewer versions
• to integrate an export directly from Asylum’s MarkBook
• to include a homework message system for better teacher - student - parent communications
• to bring in other grade book programs export data