Archive for 2009

Better Business Bureau Accreditation

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 by Chris Barlow

Opportune Solutions has received accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and now proudly displays the BBBOnline Trustmark in the lower right hand corner of the website.  Clicking on the trustmark will show the approval on the BBB website.

BBB accreditation  promotes trust and confidence on the Internet. Only businesses that adhere to the BBB Code of Business Practices, including its online standards are allowed to display the BBB Accredited Business seal.

Opportune Solutions wants to provide its clients with every assurance that they are working with an honest company that will provide a valuable service. BBB accreditation is one of many assurances that we meet this goal.

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A Barage of System Problems

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Chris Barlow

The latter half of last week and now early this week, I have just been hit with a lot of system problems and a lot of down time. To sum this up, my Adobe Creative Suite then my Microsoft Office suites stopped working. Both indicated licensing and user access permissions were no longer valid. In fact, my licensing was fine, it just stopped working properly on my system.

I use 3 licensed applications extensively and two of them failed in the same day. Fortunately, all the open source applications I use don’t and probably will never have a similar problem. Just to be fair, I think the Office problem started because of the fixes necessary to get the creative suite working.

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Helpful Hints for Form Input

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 by Chris Barlow

When you have limited space on your home page or any other page for that matter, it is nice to provide a little more helpful information for the use where form space is limited. Now, by just adding a single attribute to your input text, your will get the gray help text in your input box.

<input hintvalue="Search ..." class="smallbox" name="s" type="text" autocomplete="off" />

Just add the javascript from this article and any styles that you want and you are done. Here is a working example. Click in the boxes and watch it work.


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New Website Released

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Chris Barlow

Opportune Solutions has released this all-new website. Those of you who visited the old site will notice that the logo has changed. Officially, the Opportune Solutions logo is still the old version which is only 3 colors and 2D. The new logo, although now only based two colors is actually made up of many colors to properly highlight, shade and create the reflection.

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Resource Selection By Animal
Resource Selection By Animal

WEST, Inc. (http://www.west-inc.com) wanted to develop a web site to provide information on studying resource selection by animals. Opportune Solutions was able to create a site that met all their needs.

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Thank you. We appreciate the expediency in which you addressed the items from our meeting. And thanks for throwing in the Last Pending item. You Rock!!

Nadine Wilson
Office Manager
WEST, Inc.