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Our Newly Redesigned Site

April 5, 2009

After spending some time redesigning this site, I’ve come up with a look that is a bit more clean and fun. I’m really happy with the product. The complete redesign isn’t completely done, but it’s

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I just discovered a script that is being used on Mimbo Pro. Darren Hoyt has made it available on his blog for use by all designers. It’s an useful tool for grabbing images that are uploaded into a post and resizing them as thumbnails. Check it out. It’s called TimThumb and you can find it [...]

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Search Engine Ranking Factors

March 4, 2009

For some time I’ve been using the SEOmoz’s free service. It’s incredibly useful. If my little business grows, I’ll certainly purchase their monthly option. They have a bunch of useful tools that help me to assess how to better increase my websites’ search rankings. Anyhow, they have the most comprehensive, not to mention helpful, list [...]

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2 Great Posts from Yoast

March 4, 2009

Recently, I’ve begun reading Yoast, a great WordPress development related blog. Below are two incredibly helpful articles I recently came across. One is a checklist for wordpress developers, the other is a push for a hosting company I’ve never heard of but am considering switching to as per Yoast’s recommendation. I hate GoDaddy. A checklist [...]

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Because Because Because Because of the Wonderful things that Woopra Does…

February 20, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend took me shopping for new pants. I’ve never been too concerned about my appearance, but I know that she likes it when I at least try to look nice. Seconds after we stepped into the store front we were approached by sales person. “Is there anything I can [...]

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Black Widow Magazine Theme 2.0

February 17, 2009

This is the second release of the Black Widow Magazine Theme. Before you use this theme, you need to know that it doesn’t handle parent/child pages as of yet. I’d like to fix this in future releases. If you use this theme, I’d love your feedback. What features would you like to see added, what [...]

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Shortcodes: WordPress’s Easter Egg

February 15, 2009

Having worked with WordPress for some time now, I am embarressed to admit that I knew very little about what are called shortcodes. Smashing Magazine just put out a great article describing how one can use shortcodes on their wordpress sites. Still wondering what a shortcode is, if your a theme developer, basically it’s a [...]

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New Thoughts on Multipage Posts

February 15, 2009

So up until recently I’ve been a proponent of multi-page posts for magazine developers. I figured, if you are struggling to monetize your magazine, what better way to do that then to get people onto more pages. It increases your pageviews and, as a result, your ad revenue. I mean, that was my thought process. [...]

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Install Woopra in Linux

February 13, 2009

I have Ubuntu 8.x and I was having some trouble installing Woopra. Anyhow, I solved it by throwing this code into the terminal: wget http://static.woopra.com/woopra_unix.sh?anti-cache=12398794379 mv woopra_unix.sh?anti-cache=12398794379 woopra_unix.sh chmod 777 woopra_unix.sh ./woopra_unix.sh

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Make Pictures Move with Only CSS

January 25, 2009

The New York Post uses this method for its top-of-the-page navigation. Go to their page and hover over their navigation tabs. The background changes…sort of. Actually, it’s the same image. Using CSS what they are doing is they are switching which part of the image is displayed. When it’s just sitting there, you see the [...]

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