Update Your HOA Website to Comply with Florida’s New HOA Laws
Is your HOA website ready for the new legal requirements? We can help you avoid fines for non-compliance.
Ensure Compliance, Enhance Transparency and Improve Communication
Florida’s new regulations (passed in 2024) mandate that all homeowners’ associations (HOAs) with 100 parcels or more and all condo associations with 25 units or more must maintain a secure and compliant website that provides easy access to essential documents
An eXcelisys eXpertise: HOA Websites
For Homeowner & Condo Associations
Just as you’d hire a professional contractor to pour your home’s foundation, you should hire a professional web developer to build your HOA website to ensure you get a concrete footing that will hold for years to come.
As with a home, website architecture matters. Sure, you can hire a web designer to craft a sleek and stylish-looking site, or you can download a DIY HOA web template. However — as with any home purcha
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“One of the first things we started in this whole process was trying
Audio Post-Production Firm Finds Harmony with Custom-made Studio Booking Software
We Heard Our Client Loud & Clear — Build Us a FileMaker Solution to Manage Bookings, Staff Schedules, Studio Space, Invoices, Project Notes, Files & More
As a boutique audio post-production facility, Heard City specializes in sound design and mixing for commercials, television and film. Clients include ad agencies and editorial outfits from around the globe who rely on Heard City to sculpt soundscapes for
‘Too Hot?’ We Don’t Mind the Fire
Shunned by Other Developers, Angery American Mobilizes Forces with the eXcelisys Website Development Team
A while back, Chris Weatherman – famed prepper, survivalist, podcaster and contestant on the History Channel’s first season of “Alone” – found himself alone, once again. The backdrop of his isolation this time was not Vancouver Island, but the wilderness of web development. Weatherman – best known as the “Angery American” and author of the best-selling “Su
‘Too Hot?’ We Don’t Mind the Fire
Shunned by Other Developers, Angery American Mobilizes Forces with the eXcelisys Website Development Team
A while back, Chris Weatherman – famed prepper, survivalist, podcaster and contestant on the History Channel’s first season of “Alone” – found himself alone, once again. The backdrop of his isolation this time was not Vancouver Island, but the wilderness of web development. Weatherman – best known as the “Angery American” and author of the best-selling “Su
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When We Say, “Made in the USA,” We Mean, “Made in the USA” — Our Development Team is 100% Pure American Ingenuity & Innovation in Action
A message from our founder:
As companies across the United States work to reshore jobs and #americanmuscle hashtags eXplode all over social media, I wanted to take a moment to get clear about the way we do things here at eXcelisys, where our development team has been – and will always be – firmly rooted in the USA.
As a U.S.-based custom web, mobile,
The Power of Three – Linking FileMaker, WordPress & WooCommerce to Manage Product Listings for Print Catalog & Webstore Sales
How eXcelisys is helping a large-scale K-12 curriculum distributor close the book on its content management misery
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MailChimp Web Form Development Simplifies Candidate Selection Process & Emails
Lacking a Magic 8-Ball to consult for answers to burning questions, many entrepreneurs, health-care enterprises and NGOs turn to market research to assist with decisions about new products and services. But the key to acquiring key qualitative data lies in finding the right respondents. That’s where Hagen/Sinclair Research Recruiting
Reduce AWS Bill: Delete Snapshots with Python Lambda Script
When old snapshots pile up, so do costs – try these slick tricks to trim the bloat
By Leif Hanson, Full Stack Developer
So the billing department calls to inquire about eXtra eXpenses from AWS due to 14,000 32GB snapshots having piled up.
Unbeknownst to you, some backup script has gotten away from your team and started backing up repeatedly. Maybe you’re intentionally keeping around petabytes of backup data? Or maybe you need a pr
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Need a PHP Wrapper to Connect to the FileMaker Data API?
Try FMXData!
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I’ve built a number of FileMaker Custom Web Publishing (CWP) websites using the FileMaker Data API. With this eXperience I have learned that writing the PHP code to connect to the FileMaker Data API can be tedious and time-consuming. In order to eXpedite development, you need a library of simple, pre-built functions that give you easy access to the features of the FileMak
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eXcelisys Sets Up Video-Sharing Platform for Christian Musicians
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Born in Haiti, Bedcy came
Data Destruction Done Right!
eXcelisys Builds Monitoring Tool to Track & Audit Disk-Wiping Process
When banks, insurance companies, and health-care systems get the urge to purge, they call Archive Data Solutions. With a home base in Westerville, Ohio, Archive Data Solutions dispatches techs nationwide to wipe sensitive data from decommissioned hard drives and SSDs when they reach end-of-life.
“It’s not rocket science,” said Andy Haenszel of Archive Data Solutions, “but it can be overwhe
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A Die-hard FileMaker Developer & Airtable Skeptic Takes a Peek Inside
by Kurt Knippel, eXcelisys VP of Production
What is Airtable?
Airtable touts itself as the ultimate “organize anything, with anyone, from anywhere” tool. A relative newcomer to the cloud-based, no-code development sphere, Airtable’s valuation is projected to surpass $2.5 billion this year, as the company weighs a new round of venture funding. Clearly, this next-g
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eXcelisys Developer Mixes Work & Leisure Creating Block-Stacking Game
by Paul Spafford, eXcelisys FileMaker Developer
One weekend, I had a little fun creating a game in FileMaker. It happened in the usual way: I was playing a free game on my iPad, but it was a bit glitchy. I thought, “I can do better.”
I decided that keeping all elements as simple as possible was the way to go, so while there are some tricky bits, it’s m
Achieve Premium, High-Octane Performance From Your FileMaker Server
8 Tips to Ensure Your FileMaker Server, Serves You Well!
By Paul Spafford, eXcelisys FileMaker Developer
You’re using FileMaker Server to serve up data to your FileMaker users? Fabulous! However, if you’re managing your own FileMaker server we want to alert you to a few gotchas that make FileMaker Server — and FileMaker files — slightly different than how you maintain other services and files on your server.
Here is a sm
Achieve Premium, High-Octane Performance From Your FileMaker Server
8 Tips to Ensure Your FileMaker Server, Serves You Well!
By Paul Spafford, eXcelisys FileMaker Developer
You’re using FileMaker Server to serve up data to your FileMaker users? Fabulous! However, if you’re managing your own FileMaker server we want to alert you to a few gotchas that make FileMaker Server — and FileMaker files — slightly different than how you maintain other services and files on your server.
Here is a sm
Work from Home Productively, Securely & Sanely
Tools we love & tips you can use to manage your passwords & spouse so no one gets hurt
Has coronavirus tossed you into a funky home-office situation?
Our work-from-home pros have a few tips to help you through these trying times.
Ahhh coronavirus. Wreaking havoc not just in our personal lives, but in our work lives as well. At eXcelisys, our developers work remotely from home offices sprinkled across North America. As we’ve had ye
Work from Home Productively, Securely & Sanely
Tools we love & tips you can use to manage your passwords & spouse so no one gets hurt
Has coronavirus tossed you into a funky home-office situation?
Our work-from-home pros have a few tips to help you through these trying times.
Ahhh coronavirus. Wreaking havoc not just in our personal lives, but in our work lives as well. At eXcelisys, our developers work remotely from home offices sprinkled across North America. As we’ve had ye
Pull the Plug on Backup Plugins! Set Up WordPress Backups Through Your Hosting Service
by Justin Kwapich, eXcelisys WordPress Web Wizard
Many WordPress users rely on plugins to create backups of their website. However, there can be issues with using plugins for such a large process, which is why you should eXplore other WordPress backup options. In this post, I’ll show you how to backup your WordPress site without a plugin.
The Trouble with Backup Plugins
Limited protection: Most pro
Pull the Plug on Backup Plugins! Set Up WordPress Backups Through Your Hosting Service
by Justin Kwapich, eXcelisys WordPress Web Wizard
Many WordPress users rely on plugins to create backups of their website. However, there can be issues with using plugins for such a large process, which is why you should eXplore other WordPress site backup options. In this post, I’ll show you how to backup WordPress without a plugin.
The Trouble with Backup Plugins
Limited protection: Most protect
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Cancer Researchers Rely on Freezer Sample Management Software to Catalog & Track Lab Samples
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Bio-storage Tracking System Complements Biopharma’s Breakthrough Therapies
Cancer Researchers Rely on Freezer Sample Management Software to Catalog & Track Lab Samples
As a biopharmaceutical company Tocagen has a clear, if not colossal, vision: “No One Should Die of Cancer.” Founded in 2007, Tocagen is best known for developing an eXperimental gene therapy treatment for a lethal brain cancer called high grade glioma. A glioma is a type of tumor that occurs in the brain and spinal cord.
