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Umbraco and PayPal form content

Sep 22nd, 2009
by Rob.
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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

Sep 20th, 2009
by Loyan.
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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

Aug 27th, 2009
by Jason.
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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 [...]

Creating Blind Accessible Web Sites and Applications

Jul 24th, 2009
by Loyan.
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The reality for more than 20 million Americans who are blind or have low-vision is that the web is generally an unfriendly place. As web application developers we can choose to improve this situation or continue to carelessly contribute to it. The good news is that many of things that web developers and designers can [...]

ProWorks is Helping Businesses Leverage Social Media in Corvallis

Jul 22nd, 2009
by Loyan.
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Our third session on ‘Social Media for Business’ hosted at the Corvallis Chamber was attended by fourteen forward minded social media explorers around Corvallis. It was great mix including Mayor Tomlinson, marketing professionals, brick-n-mortar and web store owners. The mix of experience and perspectives made for some great discussions.

Some of the things we talked [...]

No iPhone? How To Effectively Use Twitter On Your Mobile Phone

Jun 9th, 2009
by Jason.
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With all of the iPhone buzz over the last few days, I thought I’d give some tips to those of you that don’t have a 3GS in your future. I’ve been using a Sony Eriksson w810i to browse, check facebook, tweet, and generally browse the internet sucessfully for almost 3 years.  This post is for [...]

Make Twitter.com More Useful Than TweetDeck or Twhirl

Jun 2nd, 2009
by Jason.
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The first thing I used to say to a Twitter noob was: “Get a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Twhirl because using it on the web sucks”.
After I discovered Troy’s Twitter Script I have a different outlook on the Twitter web client.  It simply does things that my Twhirl or TweetDeck client doesn’t do.  Here [...]

Breaking Website Projects Down in Plain Language

May 20th, 2009
by Loyan.
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Wrapping your head around a business website is a difficult task for all but the most simplest of sites. After years in the web industry I still find it challenging. I’ve found that breaking a web project into a four basic layers greatly helps us and our clients understand how the website will serve its [...]

Work Smarter in Photoshop Using Layer Styles

May 14th, 2009
by Alan.
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These two boxes are pretty much identical. However, the bottom one uses layer styles to more efficiently achieve the same result. This little technique (which is a given for the veteran Photoshop user) has saved me tons of time and headaches.
The top box has hand-crafted effects on separate layers. The drop shadow, the outline, the [...]

How To Find Out What That Font Is

May 7th, 2009
by Alan.
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Recently I was asked to re-size the advertisement images on our latest web project forestseedlingnetwork.com. In making them shorter, the challenge was to maintain the original look and include all the original text while removing about 50% of the image size. All of them were quick and easy modifications except this one, where the text [...]

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