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Photoshop Screencast: How to use the defringe tool

May 27th, 2010

I was working on an email blast for a client when I remembered how effective the defringe tool is, and though I don’t explain it too thoroughly in this screencast, it might be helpful for you.

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Using CSS Media Queries

April 27th, 2010

I wanted my website to be a little easier to read in the iPhone. I knew there was a new CSS3 property called Media Queries. This allows you to discriminate based on window size. So, in the header, as I would normally pull in a stylesheet, I can say: And that will pull in a stylesheet for the iPhone, mine look…

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My first guest post at buildinternet.com

April 26th, 2010

I wrote the third part of the embeddable mp3 players series over at buildinternet.com. Those guys graciously allowed me to geek out on their blog. Since they get way more traffic than I do, I think more people will find it useful. You can see how they make me look good here: http://buildinternet.com/2…

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Helpful WordPress Shortcode – showthumbs

April 6th, 2010

I was working on my daughter’s blog, which might be the most robust blog I’ve built, because it is my testing grounds for new features to add to WordPress sites/blogs. Tonight I added a neat kind of functionality, something I’d like to share. Shortcode to show thumbnails. Here&#…

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Updated Textmate WordPress Bundle

February 15th, 2010

Well, I’ve finally updated the WordPress bundle from the previous release. In this bundle I’ve included some fairly neat snippets. Almost all of them are wrapped in the brackets. Below is a screenshot of what snippets the bundle contains. Why are these snippets helpful? Textmate sni…

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Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 2

January 19th, 2010

In this tutorial, I cover how to use custom fields to embed an mp3 into your website (without installing a plugin).

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Using embeddable mp3 players – Part 1

January 11th, 2010

A few weeks ago I wanted to add an mp3 to my daughter’s baby book blog (built on WordPress). At first I thought to install a plugin, but it seemed a bit much for my needs. After trying a few things, I eventually settled on a nice theme-integrated method that uses a google flash-based mp3 player. I&#…

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Multiple Widget Locations

January 7th, 2010

Did you know you can register multiple Widget locations in WordPress (self hosted blogs of course)? Well, you can. All you have to do is go to your functions.php file (default usage in /wp-content/themes/default/functions.php), where you’ll see something that looks like this: register_…

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Geekitopia 1.0 (the theme) released

November 6th, 2009

I’ve been working on my old theme that I called Geekitopia. The design for this was originally to captivate my personality with the color pallete and the feel of the site. I love classic games and geeky stuff, so that’s what’s going on in the theme. I also , so I added a color scheme fo…

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