Alison Garrett is the author of the new WP plugin ColorBoxes - and the proprietor of Aliso The Geek¹. one of the principals in Barrett Creative² and is the Interactive Architect at Brave New Media.

Alison Garrett is the author of the new WP plugin ColorBoxes – and the proprietor of Aliso The Geek³. one of the principals in Barrett Creative⁴ and is the Interactive Architect at Brave New Media.

ColorBoxes is exceptionally easy to use; it accepts html tags – but if you don’t know anything about html, or think you don’t, just use the WYSIWYG editor (with the “Visual” tab highlighted), write what you want, click the “HTML” tab, and copy (or cut) and paste from the html side of the editing window into one of the colored boxes at the bottom of the editing page.

Colorboxes can easily be found and installed from within the WP Admin Panels: navigate to Plugins | Add New | Search, and when you get to the search window try “Colorboxes” and “Barrett,” since “Colorboxes” alone will return many hits you’re not interested in.

Let’s not forget her other plugins: SimpleMap (shows location of client’s store on map) and the WowHead Sidebar Search. I believe that WOW in WOWHead has something to do with the game “World of Warcraft.”

1. We think there's a clever play on words or anagram or something there - or she just forgot the "n." But since she's done all this top-flight work, we prefer to think there's something mysterious happening.
2. notice all the consonants in his name are still there.
3. We think there’s a clever play on words or anagram or something there – or she just forgot the “n.” But since she’s done all this top-flight work, we prefer to think there’s something mysterious happening.
4. notice all the consonants in his name are still there.

Check out his portfolio: he’s done excellent work for family-owned businesses, and gargantuan businesses (one or more in the Fortune 500, apparently, but I didn’t check).

And if his own WordPress design were released as a theme, people would probably be buying it in large numbers.

He’s got some free themes here.  

Thoughtful choices about plug-ins

And he knows a lot about Internet commerce.

Dan Masters.

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If you’re using WordPress 2.8.2, you can even install it from within WordPress by going to Plugins | Install New and use the search function for “pull-quotes – it should be at or near the top of the list. Install it, activate it.

Start a new post. Somewhere near the middle – or wherever you want it – switch to the html editor (I think this is necessary, because the visual editor may not read the brackets as denoting code – but I’m not sure) [quote]

We need some text here for spacing purposes, so we’ll tell you a little bit more about The MightyMo Design Company

1. They’re pretty funny, and that’s a good thing, even though the two most famously funny people in Minnesota – Garrison Keillor and Al Franken – actually learned to be funny here in New York. We’re entitled to have Franken at least half the time, and we’re willing to settle for joint custody. But they can’t have Ian Frazier for the other seat; it’s out of the question (if you don’t know how funny Frazier is, do a Google Search for Coyote v Acme.
2. They’ve got a very impressive portfolio of web sites. And even a cursory glance tells you they’re not doing the same one or two things over and over – they’ve got range, as theatre people say. I guess ranchers also say it.
3. Toby – the designer – poses some very interesting intellectual property questions related to WordPress in this post WordPress Themes Are Only Partially GPL-Licensed (I’m going to try to address them separately, because it’s an excellent post – even though at the moment I’m using it to space out pull-quotes)
4. MightyMo Design has its own WordPress Theme, which is pretty nice-looking.

If you add the open square bracket quote close square bracket from within the visual editor – it will appear – so what I said about the HTML editor above was wrong.

One interesting function I tripped over is that if one applies bold text styling but not italics – the pull-quote will show up with that styling like this [quote]

This is an excellent plugin – and the default styling is likely to work well in most text-rich blogs. There are a couple of other pull-quote plugins around – but – if you’re code-challenged – like me – they can be a little tricky.

So install the plugin – pull some quotes – and keep an eye on these guys – I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they both have the same last name. Coincidence? You decide.

My feeble humor aside – their site for Net Impact Minneapolis is an excellent example of a site which says what it has to say – pretty much no wasted time or wasted space. And it sounds like an interesting organization, too.

Toby Cryns’ design for the Social Networks Collaborative (of which he’s a member) is also excellent – sounds like the project may have dispersed or gone on hiatus within the last year – a good design about very interesting issues which left me sorry that I hadn’t attended any of their events and wanting to read the published work of the participants.

And not to be missed – Kelsey Timmerman’s Where Am I Wearing? – an extended inquiry into how our clothes are produced.

The Mighty Mo Design Company.

Some in particular will be of interest to new bloggers, particularly Windows Live Writer, which allows off-line composition of blog posts.