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Mitch Canter

[studionashvegas] v5 is Live!

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After nearly (literally) 6 months of testing, working, and coding (and working around other peoples’ work – clients come first!) I am proud to announce that this site is in it’s 5th revisionary state.

Some things worth mentioning (that you may or may not care about, but it’s fun to mention the highlights):

  • New front page design
  • Contact page removed; Hire Us button takes you to the form below
  • Portfolio has been written with custom post types, taxonomies, and a whole lot of WordPress goodness.
  • Blog is revamped for custom images; default image will replace non-featured thumbnails

There’s still some work to be done, but for the most part it’s live and operational.  I hope you guys enjoy because now that it’s up I can go back to blogging instead of coding this thing 😉

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