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  • HTML5 Video Scale to Fill Container with jQuery

    I’m working on a new large-background WordPress theme that I am going to release for free within the next two weeks. As part of the theme, I wanted to use a high-definition HTML5 video as the background of the landing page of the theme. Here’s where I ran into trouble: browsers like to keep the aspect ratio of the [...]

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  • Five Simple, Useful HTML Tags

    Most people don’t need to know how an HTML document is formatted or structured. They don’t need to know what goes in the <head> and what goes in the <body> tags. If you have a WordPress site and work with the HTML of pages at all (if you click on the HTML tab on the visual editor), these tags [...]

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  • Review : WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin

    I started using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin a few months ago when I saw a link to the Yoast website advertised in my new WordPress installation. I’d used other WP plugins for SEO previously, most notably the All-In-One SEO plugin for WordPress; but I’m always trying the latest and greatest that the WordPress community has to offer. So, [...]

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  • Authoring Content with WordPress: Pages and Posts

    WordPress is one of the definitive blog authoring tools for publishing content online. I use WordPress on all of my clients’ websites, and I always give them a demonstration of how to author their content as part of their web development package. Education is essential to my work: a working website is great, a website that the client knows [...]

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  • Review : Unbridled CSS Magic With Skybound Stylizer

    One day I was stumbling through the internet with my favorite little piece of browser software called StumbleUpon (http://www NULL.stumbleupon NULL.com/) when I came across a little piece of CSS-editing software called Stylizer. They made a pretty serious claim on their website. Stylizer: (http://www NULL.skybound NULL.ca/) A massively productive visual CSS editor for serious and aspiring CSS designers. I [...]

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  • 3 Things I Do Immediately After Installing WordPress

    To supplant my earlier post How to Make a Personal Website Without Writing Code, I’ve decided to assemble a list of the things I do immediately following a successful WordPress installation. Every prolific web designer has a pattern when creating a new website, steps that he follows in order to expedite his workflow. This is my unofficial checklist: Clean [...]

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  • How to Make a Personal Website Without Writing Code

    “My friend is an [artist/rockstar/tortoise collector/model] and needs a website. They don’t have any money, so they asked me for help putting one together, but I don’t know where to start!” As a web designer, I get asked to help people put together personal websites all the time. Most of the time, they aren’t looking for professionally-designed websites, they [...]

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  • How Can I Get More Visitors To My Website?

    Good question. A website is only as good as the attention and potential customers that it gets your company. Even an informational website is only as useful as it is visible. Fortunately, we’re experts at increasing visitation to your website. As I mentioned before in my post Does Your Small Business Need A Website?, the first thing people do [...]

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  • Does Your Small Business Need a Website?

    Short answer: Definitely. Long answer: Yes, absolutely. If you’re a small business, a website is an indispensable asset to establishing your branding and your digital image. Even if you’re not planning on selling online, or entering the social networking scene, a website provides your business with the legitimacy that comes from having an established brand. If nothing else, your [...]

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  • Why WordPress?

    Web developers and computer people in general talk a whole lot of jargon that makes very little sense to the layperson. Most of my clients don’t speak geek and don’t have time to learn. They just want a website that looks good and does what it’s supposed to. Fortunately for you, that’s my area of expertise. One term that [...]

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