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Save Money with Ten Questions About Your Website Project

If you are the owner of a website and/or you are considering a re-design or a new build, here is list of ten questions that can help you save money.
A good web professional should be asking you questions like these as part of their service. But frankly, I would advise you to consider these questions ahead of time for the following [...]

Blog 4 Umbraco Modification: Allow Posting To Multiple Blogs From The Dashboard

We recently had a project for a client, MOM Magazine, that had the need to have several blogs on their site running independently, yet in the same CMS. Blog 4 Umbraco to the rescue! After the Christmas upgrade sprint from the Umbraco team I knew that the blog could handle everything they needed [...]

Umbraco Package: Google Map Macro for the Rich Text Editor

First Umbraco Package!
OK, its simple, but we needed to let a client insert Google Maps into content areas via the Rich Text Editor in Umbraco.   Macro to the rescue!
Package: Google_Map_Macro_for_the_Rich_Text_Editor__1.0.zip
After installing the package, you should be able to insert a new Google Map in the Rich Text Editor by doing this:
1. Find your location in [...]

Adding a 301 Redirect in IIS for Individual Pages with Non-ASPX Extensions

Are you migrating from a non-ASP.NET web site to an ASP.NET based Content Management System and don’t want to lose inbound links from Google or other sites?  There is an easy way to do this in IIS!
If you’re looking for redirecting domains or www to non-www urls, please take a look at an article I [...]

How to Make an HDTV in Adobe Illustrator

I have been re-acquainted with Adobe Illustrator lately, due to a fun project that requires all kinds of modeled objects. This inspired me to write a full tutorial on something that may be useful to the design community: a sweet flat-screen HDTV! This could be a great way to display some videos or a slideshow, [...]

How To Add Boxes to the Wall Sidebar of Your Facebook Page

I received a question from a local Corvallis business: “How can I get sidebar buttons on my Facebook Wall Page?” The example Facebook Page was the Sur La Table fan page.

We hadn’t done this before on the ProWorks fan page so I set about trying to do it. Turns out, its not too [...]

How to Add Google Analytics to Wordpress

These directions assume you have a Google Analytics account set up and have access to the tracking script code provided by Google. An alternative solution is to use a Wordpress Plugin to install Google Analytics for you. Google Analytics for Wordpress stands out to me based on its ratings, over 700,000 downloads, version status (3.25) [...]

Umbraco and PayPal form content

Before you display or render your (or your client’s) PayPal “Add to Cart” generated “buttons” on your page, you should add a “dummy” form

Selecting Social Media Guides

John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of “social media expert” is overstated if we consider his observation:

“Social Media is such a new frontier that there really is no way that someone could honestly claim to [...]

Using Flickr For Your Organization, Business, Product, or Charity

I’ve been using Flickr for about 6-7 years now for my blog and personally and I love it. It is the YouTube of photos. Tons of people use it and what make it really useful are all of the social media parts built right in.
One of the reasons I like using Flickr is [...]