23Systems Web Design and Development

I’m working on several plugins for WordPress and bbPress at this time. Stay tuned for further developments.

We’re using our blog to provided dialogue about our WordPress and MediaWiki plugins and themes as well as out website design and development work.

Welcome to 23Systems

23Systems endeavors to provide top quality, customized and accessible web sites that leverage existing technologies to allow you to focus on what is critical: the message you are communicating. We believe that it is necessary to leverage both traditional web models, such as search engines, as well as bring forth a strong presence on the social and semantic web. We are experienced in all aspects of web design and development as well as search engine optimization, social network integration and the semantic web.

We specialize in developing Web 2.0 installations using and customizing WordPress and MediaWiki to leverage these powerful tools to give you the web presence you want. Additionally we can create custom themes and skins, plugins and extensions for both systems to provide your site with a unique user experience.

Web Focus

Currently we focus on the following Web and Web 2.0 models for implementation:

• Blogging and Content Management
• Social Network Integration
• User Experience
• Web Presence and Visibility
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Accessibility to web enabled devices and applications
• Web Systems Integrations

Technology Focus

We currently focus on using the following technologies and platforms:

• HTML and XHTML Development
• Advanced CSS Development
• PHP/MySQL Programming
• WordPress Customization
• MediaWiki Customization
• Javascript Programming
• AJAX Programming
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Section 509 Web Accessibility
• Semantic Web Implementation
• Web Design (using Illustrator and Photoshop)
• Apache and IIS webservers

Ready Deployment

Common deployments include WordPress (blogging and content management), MediaWiki (collaborative content creation), bbPress (message boards), Typo3 (content management system). We have a number of prepackaged systems that are readily deployable with popular plugins and common integrations included.

• WordPress with popular plugins
• MediaWiki with base configuration
• bbPress with base configuration
• Integrated WordPress and MediaWiki
• Integrated WordPress and bbPress
• Integrated WordPress, bbPress and MediaWiki
• Typo3 with popular extensions

Various themes we have produced for clients and ourselves. These themes have been graciously made available by our clients for public use.

	23Systems WordPress Theme (33.54 KB) A simple and clean widget ready curved theme with pleasing, easy on the eyes color. The one used on this site.
	Basic Roleplaying WordPress Theme (85.86 KB) This theme was developed for Basic Roleplaying . Net but can easily be re-skinned for use with any site the wishes to display a large amount of information with some simple visual flare.
	Melarte Original WordPress Theme (107.63 KB) The Melarte WordPress theme is a clean theme that is ideal for an artist or photographer’s site. Includes light box image display for gallery image display. Originally developer for Melanie Sallis - A Gallery of Online Artwork