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At Box Clever we pride ourselves on building beautiful, functional websites. Award winning websites that are thoroughly planned, lovingly designed, custom coded, rigorously tested, and launched to applause.

Chris Mebs

Box Clever Rakes in an Ember Award!

Award Winning Website Design by Box Clever

The team here at Box Clever is just glowing over our latest win for e-commerce site gravitypope: top spot in the 2016 Ember Awards’ Best Website category.  Hosted by Digital Alberta, the Ember Awards celebrates some of the hottest digital media creators in our province (and, we have to say, it’s pretty cool to be in their company). A panel of 22 judges — including some of the best minds in…

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Chris Mebs

Box Clever Takes Home Interactive Media Award Number 10

Award Winning Website Design by Box Clever

Today’s an especially great day here at Box Clever. We are thrilled to announce we’ve been honoured with our 10th award from IMA! The project that earned us this double-digit award status is one we are very proud of — an e-commerce website for gravitypope, an independently owned Canadian boutique known for its trendsetting footwear, clothing and accessories. IMA recognized the gravitypope site…

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Kayla Baretta

New Websites for Elk Island Catholic Schools!

School District Website Redesign

We are excited to be launching another school division website! Box Clever has been working with Elk Island Catholic Schools to bring their corporate and 16 school websites into responsive, modern designs on an easy to use content management system. The previous websites were run on Joomla! - a CMS that is quite difficult to use. This led to staff frustration and many of the school sites containing…

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Kayla Baretta

38 Websites Launched in a Single Day

Woooeee! We have had a crazy month so far! Last month we completed our biggest WebGuide for Schools project yet-  migrating all content and launching a new district website plus 37 school websites for Elk Island Public Schools. In one day we added an additional 700 users onto WebGuide for Schools CMS and we trained over 60 people in 3 locations in two cities, wew! We also trained various departments…

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Lindsay Peddle

Box Clever Awards a Free Website Design to Local Non-Profit

Edmonton Website Giveaway

We had a variety of well-deserving non-profit organizations enter our recent Website Giveaway contest, and although the decision was a difficult one, we are thrilled to finally announce the winner… Congratulations, Just-Us Girls! Just-Us Girls is a voluntary, community-based program that supports and empowers young mothers considered ‘at-risk’, who may be in conflict with the criminal justice…

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Chris Mebs

PHP Sessions not being deleted on Ubuntu Server

I came across an issue on one of our Ubuntu 10.04 servers where there was over 1GB of session files, and none getting deleted. I didn't know that Ubuntu ignores the normal PHP method for deletion in favour of using cron. I won't re-write the whole shebang here, but here is the article that shed some light on the situation for me: http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/php-sessions-not-being-deleted-on-ubuntu-server/…

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