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Drupal vs. WordPress For Magazines

November 26, 2008

So this is the age old debate. A lot of magazine developers use iJoomla. And, frankly, I think that iJoomla is both clunky and it’s learning curve is huge. So, Joomla sites are good, but only when the developer and the end user are the same person. Even so, as far as Joomla goes, because [...]

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My Own Theme Sucks

November 14, 2008

So I developed a new magazine theme recently, based on the New Yorker’s site. The problem: the site is terrible in terms of SEO. So now, I’m back to my site’s old design. Ugly, but effective. I will get to fixing Black Widow one of these days, but for now, it’s just not ready. Durn!

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A Beautiful Tool for Displaying Online Magazine ISSUUS

October 2, 2008

You know how it is, you have a print magazine, and then you have a website. And if your print magazine is basically free, it behooves you to put up the pdfs online. But pdfs are big, and, thus, are expensive to load from your server. So there is a new solution in town: Issuu. [...]

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Introducing Black Widow 1.0: the Best Magazine Theme Concept Released on WordPress to Date

September 22, 2008

I’ve had numerous entries about the Black Widow Magazine theme. Finally, you can download it for yourself. Please, give me your feedback: Download the theme

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One of the most uninteresting news sites on the internet

September 16, 2008

The Brown Daily Herald has got to be one of the most plain themes I’ve ever seen. I don’t hate it. On the one hand, it’s easy to navigate. All the headlines are there. It doesn’t suffer from the cluttered news sites that feel it necessary to put excerpts of every single article on their [...]

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Internet Explorer 8

August 27, 2008

Today i downloaded Internet Explorer 8, which is now in beta testing. It runs great. It’s faster than IE 7 (although not as pretty), and it’s got this wonderful little setting that keeps google from collecting all of your internet surfing data. On the one hand, that could mean that my adsense revenue’s source is [...]

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Making a Theme Your Own

August 26, 2008

One of the first things I did when I uploaded my first WordPress magazine theme was to comb through it’s code. I figured out what made the theme do what, and I moved things around to make it look like I wanted it to look. If you look at The Brown Spectator’s website, you’ll see [...]

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Black Widow v. Scorpion

August 25, 2008

I know, it’s one of those important life questions: who would win if you pit a black widow spider against a scorpion. Being as how this is Spidermarket and I’ve just begun beta testing of the greatest wordpress magazine theme ever created aptly namedBlack Widow, I would like to say that the spider rules the [...]

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This is a Rant

August 23, 2008

But seriously, if you have Internet Explorer 5 or 6 still, DOWNLOAD THE NEWEST VERSION. Look, as the web gets further and further away from antiquated browsers, so do programmers. And, it’s really frustrating trying to design internet themes and applications for people who can’t see things clearly. Look, if you are using a depracated [...]

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Woopra, Everything Google Analytics Isn’t

August 19, 2008

In the last few weeks, I’ve been reading a lot about Woopra. At first, I was a bit skeptical in terms of how I thought it would stand up against Google Analytics. But, now, I’m sold. Since my foray into Google analytics, i have often been frustrated by the lack of real-time analysis. There is [...]

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