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This slideshow offers some very nice WordPress tips

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Wordcamp North Canton 2013 – 13 Mistakes I’ve Made
WordPressMistakes I’ve Made13Laura Eagin | WordCamp North CantonMay 4th 2013

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Very good points for business owners

Worth a watch.

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Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …
(Filmed at TEDxPugetSound.)

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Big Project Launched!

After a month and a half  (or is it 2 months?) of design and CSS work, a site that I have been helping with has finally been launched! It's a monstrous site – with lots of functionalities and I'm very thankful I was not in lead position with this Drupal site.

The client is happy – and eager to continue maintenance work to continue updating the site, so it will be a nice continuing project that I'm very happy to help with.

This is part of the Connecticut News Project and they're located in the NPR building in Hartford, so it has been really great to help with a production that I believe in.

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The Connecticut Mirror | To inform and engage one Connecticut
Washington — Speaking at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday, former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman said that there had been several opportunities to stop the bombings at the Boston Marathon. “It would have been hard to stop this one, but it would have been possible,” …

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Floats vs. Inline-Block

I had been questioning my use of each and was pleasantly surprised to see that I know a lot of these caveats and solutions. This article was well-written, clear and a quick read and can help you decide when to use each of these.

Of all these mentioned… I hate, hate, hate the clear fix div method. Ugh. What a sloppy solution. It's like puking in your code. (I'm working to style Drupal pages that have that scattered throughout the HTML. Yuck.)

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Float vs. Inline-Block
This is an interesting topic for me as a web designer who is also a programmer. My mind is almost always geared toward efficiency in…

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Great tips for creating a favicon

There's not too much space to do anything fancy within a 16×16 grid. These are tips to make sure people are seeing what you want them to see.

There are also other sizes that you may want to create for. 

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Create the perfect favicon | Feature | .net magazine
Today Jon Hicks’ much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons

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