Chili Pepper Design

Coming Soon from Chili Pepper Design: Faceil - An online service that lets you easily create and manage customized Facebook Page Tabs. Just choose a template and theme (or create your own), then add and update content via a simple WYSIWYG backend. There will also be a white-label CMS for designers to allow their clients to easily update their custom FBML tabs. Head to the Faceil website for more information and updates:

• http://faceil.com

Chili Pepper Design is pleased to announce the launch of a small Drupal website for The Five Peaks – a COSMIC ski mountaineering race in Breckenridge, Colorado. This site epitomizes what is great about Drupal: it was a budget site put together very quickly, but thanks to Drupal it is a full featured, accessible, easy to update website with a Forum for finding a teammate and even a news feed.

• The Five Peaks Colorado Ski Mountaineering Race

I just launched a small side-project: facebookshowcase.net! The impetus for the project was that after I finished the CPD page on Facebook, I wanted to show it off. But I couldn’t find a gallery/showcase site for Facebook pages! So I made one. One disclaimer: due to the limited time available for side projects most of the site’s design came from the Gallery theme (although I did customize it). I hope it gets some use!

• facebookshowcase.net

Not only is CPD on Facebook now, but I took the opportunity to play around with custom Tabs and Boxes. Social media in the context of business is all about customer interaction and feedback. Since Facebook introduced the Tabbed Profile and Fan Pages earlier this year it has become a great tool for brands to get their "social media" mojo and still maintain their image and promote their product or service. To learn how to create and add custom Tabs to your own Facebook Fan Page, check out my blog entries on the subject:

• Custom Facebook Tabs Part 1
• Custom Facebook Tabs Part 2

A site I recently “cut and sliced” is now online. I didn’t design this site: this is an example of how I can take designs from other professional designers and turn them into functional websites. This site is fast, cross-browser, standards-compliant, SEO-friendly xHTML and CSS, and looks exactly like the Photoshop file I worked from. Check it out:

• Real Estate Composer Website
• Read more about this project on my Portfolio page

Here at Chili Pepper Design, I’ve evangelized CMS Made Simple before. It truly is a nice, easy-to-use and easy-to-theme Open Source CMS with great built in features and extensions. Now, I’ve got a short Screencast video to prove how awesome it is! In the video, I log in to the CMS and make a couple quick changes to the content, as a proof of concept. This is my first attempt at a sceencast, so bear with me on the poor quality, but check it out for yourself:

• CMS Made Simple Screencast Demo Video