Website Redesign: Sophia Joelle

Sophia Joelle is an up-and-coming young singer currently residing in Nashville, TN. Cardinal Acres Web Development had previously created a website for Sophia Joelle that featured the full range of her talents to include acting, dancing, and stage performance along with singing. Sophia Joelle is now focusing her career on singing alone and needed her […]

Website Redesign: Cardinal Acres Photography

If you work with WordPress long enough, you eventually find yourself in a situation where your theme has been abandoned by its developer. Usually, you can limp along for a while without updating the theme but the time comes when an update to WordPress core or one of your plugins breaks the theme in some […]

New Website: Yestingsmeier Cup

The Yestingsmeier Cup was established in 2007 when Darren Brinker of Evansville Junior Golf Association approached Bryan Crouch of the Indianapolis Junior Golf Foundation about the possibility of playing a two-day 36-hole golf match based on the Ryder Cup format. The Yestingsmeier Cup’s namesake would be Earl Yestingsmeier, the beloved 35-year coach of the Ball State […]

Website Redesign: NKBA Indiana Chapter

NKBA Indiana Chapter’s website had become more of a hindrance than a help to the organization primarily due to an overly complex event management system. Their once-per-month event schedule didn’t require advanced functionality to manage while the additional complexity of the existing system just meant that no one in the organization really knew how to […]

New Advanced Website Service Agreement

Cardinal Acres Web Development has introduced a new “Advanced Website Service Agreement” for it’s clients utilizing either dedicated or VPS server environments. The Advanced Website Service Agreement includes all of the services provided with our Basic, Basic+Backups, and Basic+Statistics Website Service Agreements and adds: Real-time backups—backups are saved immediately after any change to the site […]

Hosting Transfer: Forgotten Weapons

After Cardinal Acres Web Development revamped his Forgotten Weapons site a while back, Ian McCollum found himself in an enviable predicament: he had more traffic on his site than his server could handle. Forgotten Weapons was getting 300,000 visits/month (almost 200,000 unique visits/month), was serving up to 1,000,000 pages/month and using around 1TB of bandwidth/month. […]

Website Redesign: Cardinal Acres Web Development

Cardinal Acres Web Development has established itself as an affordable and knowledgeable developer of websites for small businesses and non-profit organizations. After over 5 years and nearly two dozen websites, Cardinal Acres Web Development needed to turn it’s attention to it’s own website. Many of the features that Cardinal Acres Web Development routinely implemented for […]

WordPress Installation Attack

I just read about a new and nefarious attack on WordPress at the Wordfence website.. Wordfence is a fantastic security plugin for WordPress; if you’re not already using it, you should be. If you administer or otherwise use WordPress for your web presence, you should also subscribe to their WordPress security update newsletter. Wordfence has uncovered […]

New Website: American Y-Flyer Sailing Association

One of my passions is sailing and I have actively raced multiple small one-design dinghies in the midwest since I was 10 years old. I currently own a Y-Flyer and a Laser which I sail out of the Indianapolis Sailing Club. The Y-Flyer class website was a hodge-podge of Microsoft ASP (“active server pages”), custom […]