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Archive for August, 2007

Do you take working at home for granted?

Aug
31
2007

This past week, I realized that I take working at home for granted way too much. It’s easy to fall into the daily drudgery of wake up, work, eat supper and work some more. So, I’ve come up with things to remember to keep the work at home woes at bay.

First of all [...]


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Posted in: General

The Reseller Hosting How-To

Aug
23
2007

If you’ve never heard of reseller hosting before, or want to learn how to make more out of your reseller hosting then this article is for you.
What is reseller hosting?
I guess the easiest way to explain reseller hosting is to compare it to a ‘normal’ hosting arrangement. Normally, when you buy a web hosting [...]


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Posted in: General, cPanel

Out sick, again…

Aug
22
2007

Man, I think I’ve been more sick this year than I have in the past two combined. Since I work full time, run a web design business on the side, and write on this blog, there just isn’t any time to write ahead of time to stack posts. I’ve been listening to the [...]


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Ecommerce Demystified: How to setup your online store with real life examples.

Aug
20
2007

Ecommerce can be really confusing, especially when it is explained to you
by programmers and merchant banks. They speak a language that most of us just
don’t understand. I’m a web designer who used to be completely befuddled by
the whole ecommerce thing. So, in this article, I want to demystify ecommerce
[...]


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Posted in: General

What is Great Content? Defining this ubiquitous term

Aug
17
2007

If you are a blogger you’ll hear or read the term ‘great content’ thrown around all over the place. They say, “If you want to have a great blog, simply write great content”, or “If you want to make a ton of money with your blog, write great content”, or “If you want [...]


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Posted in: Content

Links from the Trenches #3

Aug
10
2007

I’ve been reading about web automation with php and StumbleUpon this week.

Web AutomationI’ve been looking into web automation for a few projects I’ve been brainstorming. I’ve figured out that I know most of the methods to do this, and this resource helped me to put it all together.
A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUponFound Dosh Dosh [...]


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Posted in: General

Video Tutorial: Online CSS Formatter and Optimizer

Aug
7
2007

This is a video tutorial I created to showcase an online css formatter and optimizer. I’ll apologize in advance for the poor audio quality towards the end of the video (I’m still learning how to do this), but I don’t think it detracts from the overall message of the video. I’ll see if I [...]


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Posted in: Design

How to Make a Resizeable Full Screen Flash Animation

Aug
5
2007

I recently had to create resizeable Flash animation that would play full screen. Here are the steps to creating a full screen flash animation:

First of all, the most important aspect of this is to create a flash animation with vectors only. If you create one with bitmap images, when you resize the animation [...]


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Posted in: Design

July 2007 Website Traffic

Aug
2
2007

Hey, it’s already August Seems like things fly by so fast for me, probably because I do way to much stuff. Anyway, the traffic to the blog has more than tripled over the last month so that is really exciting. I hope to see continued traffic growth like this in the [...]


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