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For my client Kate Nasser’s website, I made a number of changes to add more features & content, reduce clutter and improve search engine optimization (SEO). This article shows how to use advanced tooltips to make suplimental information invisible until needed.

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My client wanted to have their authors' photos appear with their published articles. In this article, I describe how I wrote a Wordpress filter – my first – to prepend an image to the content on the home and single post pages.

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Why Knowing HTML Matters

Thinking of starting a Website to publish your thoughts or promote your business? While you can create “a site in just minutes – No HTML necessary!”, knowing the basics of the Web’s markup language and how it provides information to search robots about your site, influencing your site’s ranking, will give you an edge in building your online business.

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Google announced their plan to introduce the Google Chrome OS into the market for PC operating systems. Essentially, it’s a Web OS that intelligently integrates on-line and local resources to provide a slick interface for managing all the content consumption, creation and sharing we routinely do. Larry Aronson examines some of the possible consequences.

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Amazon Kindle2 Amazon.com announced today a new version of its Kindle reader. I’ve occasionally seen people using a Kindle on the NYC subway. It’s a beautiful device and I want one.

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A simple method to include a category of posts on any page using a custom field and a php include file.

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Lawyers In New Media

DigitalHHR – I just completed this Wordpress blog for the Intellectual Property department of a major law firm. It features an integrated BBs, an event manager, feature-rich videos, a Flash-powered header, customized navigation menu and special lawyer profile pages.

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Fantastico De Luxe

New hosting tools are eliminating most of the system administration work I used to do for clients. A short review of Fantastico De Luxe and cPanel.

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BUTCH and Harold Update

I just complete a major update to the Butch and Harold Website. A Yahoo store selling a line of peel-and-stick artware, photo frames and mini-stickers. Changes included a conversion of the site’s navigation structures and menus to accommodate an expanded product line.

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Two New Browsers

Two new Web browsers have recently become available for exploring the Internet. Google Chrome and Flock take radically different approaches to the browsing experience and I recommend you take a look at them when you get a chance.

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Here’s a Tip

How to add a floating tipbox or editorial sidebar to a post in your Wordpress blog. I’m wrote this to answer a question from a client and it just made more sense to demonstrate the technique in a post rather than explain it in an email.

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Websites For Artists

Here are some of the sites I’ve designed and built for clients in the commercial and fine arts. I offer them as examples of the simple, static, Web 1.0 sites, done very quickly for friends a few years ago. Today it’s much easier and more effective to establish an online presence using Web 2.0 [...]

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Partnership For Prescription Assistance, Pennsylvania The Partnership For Prescription Assistance, Pennsylvania, blog. The client wanted a three column design incorporating a Google Calendar listing events in the campaign. Building this site taught me how sidebars are generated in Wordpress. My favorite bit, however, is the ShareThis widget attached to the end of each post.

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East-West DialogueEast-West DialogueUnder subcontract to graphics designer, Michael Pinto, of VM.com, I installed and configured this content management system for The East-West Center. It primarily serves as the online companion to the print version of the organization’s signature magazine, East-West Dialogue. The design requirements were very specific featuring a custom navigation menu and different sidebars for the index pages and post pages.

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New Look For SmartMC

I’m the senior product developer for Smart Medical Consumer. Recently, I’ve adapted new styles and design elements from Advancity to unify and improve the site’s look and feel. I’ve also updated much of my perl cgi code making it more object oriented.
A lot of new features have been added to SmartMC including automatic alert messages [...]

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