Letting Non-Admins View CyStats Stats in WordPress
The CyStats plugin is a great statistics plugin for WordPress. It has a ton of nice features, is easy to scan and displays all relevant stats (sans RSS feed stats) right from the WordPress backend.The...
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Build WordPress Sites Fast With the Thematic Theme Framework
Photo Credit: Vladitto via ShutterstockLately, I’ve been using Thematic–a framework for building WordPress themes faster.Thematic gives you a solid, bare-bones theme with reset CSS styles, a very...
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WordPress Security Tip: Don’t Post From Your Admin Account
Photo credit: Anton BalazhUpdated: 12/04/2009–Note: This information applies also to pages as well as posts.Anytime you see suggestions for making your WordPress install more secure, you’re gonna see...
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Encrypt Your USB Thumb Drives
I just had an unpleasant episode that really reminded me of the need to have some kind of encryption on your thumb drives.I was leaving a friend’s house, got in my truck and drove home. I unloaded my...
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WordPress Security Plugin: Admin Post Reminder
Previously, I wrote an article about the dangers of publishing blog posts from your admin account.If you’ve changed the default WordPress admin user name from ‘admin’ to something else, great. However,...
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Ultimate PrestaShop Toolkit – 50+ Resources
Whether you’re looking to learn PrestaShop, or you’re already working with it, this is for you. We’re sharing over 50 PrestaShop tutorials, modules, themes, and resources for learning and using this...
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Fugue Icon Set and Fugue Sprite CSS Framework
Fugue is a free icon set created by Yusuke Kamiyamane–free for personal and commercial projects.Let’s look at Fugue and how you can quickly add icons from the set to your site via the Fugue CSS Sprite...
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Exploring Blog Audio Comments
In a previous post, I wrote about 10 creative ways to use Drop.io. Drop.io is a free online file sharing/collaboration service.One of the ideas was using Drop.io’s voicemail as a way to let visitors...
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Stay More Organized With Thunderbird 3
It’s only been a couple weeks since the newest version of Mozilla Thunderbird–Thunderbird 3–was officially released.This new version of Thunderbird includes several new features.Let’s look at 4...
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The Smashing Book Review
Smashing Magazine is a great web design blog featuring fun and useful articles and tutorials for web designers.When they announced they were releasing a book–The Smashing Book–I was eager to read...
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15 User Interface Icon Sets
Because of their small size, icons used in UI’s (user interfaces) should be kept fairly simple.This is especially true for user interfaces for mobile apps and devices like the iPhone, iPad and mobile...
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Finding Design Inspiration Online and Offline
Where do you find inspiration for your designs?There are many places to look, both online and off. The important thing is to not limit yourself to just one source of inspiration.Online Design...
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Help Your Clients Understand Web Design Terminology
Brought to you by Next Day Flyers; offering custom printed postcards, business cards, tickets, posters, and more.Every profession has their own lingo and specialized terms. While terms differ from...
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BigCommerce Shopping Cart Review
Disclaimer: This is not a paid or sponsored post. I am an Authorized Reseller for BigCommerce and this review does contain links that pass my referral info. However, I try to be as objective as...
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{openx:8}Problem: You are creating a new WordPress-powered website for a client. Let’s say you have 25 pages that make up the site’s page structure. Normally, you’d have to create 25 new pages. This is...
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Don’t Let Your Sites Become Victims of Ad Blockers
Updated: 08/03/2011 – Added a live example of blocked non-ad images. Note: This post is not condoning tricking users by trying to slip advertisements past ad-blocking plugins. The purpose of this...
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Better Site Pagination: Best Practices
Pagination navigation is a set of links that allow users to navigate through paged content.Pagination navigation is common on blogs and forums. It’s usually in the form of numbered page links that...
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Statamic – Fast and Powerful CMS Without the Database
I work with CMS’s every day, and have for several years. But today Statamic CMS launched to the public and I’m giddy not unlike a school girl.So why am I so excited about Statamic? Why should you...
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Edit BigCommerce Stores With WebDAV in Linux
BigCommerce is my hosted shopping cart of choice and I recommend it to most of my clients.Recently, BigCommerce announced that they are phasing out FTP support in favor of WebDAV.This mostly won’t...
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Making Invoices Easier to Pay With Stripe
For a while now, my clients have been able to view and pay their invoices online. I have used the fantastic invoicing service Curdbee for that.I create the invoice and an email with a link to the...
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