I recently finished a small web site project for a local Karate studio. I did all the development work using a “staged” version of their site on my local machine. The customer provided content that translated into 9 individual pages for the site. When the design was complete, I gave the customer a quick demo […]

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On Thursday 07-26-2007 Microsoft announced in a press release their intention to acquire AdECN, Inc., an advertising exchange platform company. With this press release Microsoft makes a clear commitment to provide advertisers and publishers with a comprehensive search and display advertising platform.
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After my Friday Find of 07/06/07 I was compelled to immediately upgrade to the latest release of WordPress and change all of my passwords for my account at Dreamhost. If you’re about to upgrade to the latest release of WordPress, here is a quick pre-upgrade check list you should complete before pressing the “go” button.
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I came across an informative post the other day at Problogger that posed the question, “What do you know now about blogging that you wish you knew when you started?” The titled says it all about the post that followed, but the real meat of the post exists in the comments section where readers respond […]

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Last Friday’s find was about a post over at Mezzoblue documenting an settling experience of finding “hidden links” at the bottom of the site’s pages. That post motivated me to get off my butt and upgrade my version of WordPress along with changing all of my passwords back at Dreamhost (my host provider). Since […]

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I set my kids up with their own blog for the summer to help encourage them to keep their writing skills sharp (since all previous motivational attempts failed). For their new site I selected the WordPress theme Pride created by Small Potato and available for download at WpDesigner.com.
I thought the theme was fantastic! My kids, […]

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One of the primary reasons I like WordPress so much is the almost endless supply of free plug-ins and themes. These free items can add great value to a blog and instantly give a novice blogger an extremely professional look with a simple download. While those of us that use these free items reap […]

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Tired of the same old blue login box for your WordPress powered site? Fear not for with a little graphics work you can give your site a custom login screen. You can find the complete “how-to” instructions at David Airey’s Creative Design blog. The instructions are so simple that I won’t go into […]

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I’ve been tweaking the WordPress theme used over at Brothers In Blog (my second blog I coauthor with my brother). Last week I added category and archive totals to the sidebar. One of the things I noticed, which wasn’t there all along, is that my “categories” subtitle appeared twice. If your selected WordPress theme originally […]

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I absolutely love the Subscribe to Comments plug-in from Mark Jaquith. The plug-in allows visitors leaving comments to subscribe to all future comments for a particular post, which is kind of like a post specific RSS feed.
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