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This slideshow offers some very nice WordPress tips

Jean Egan — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:27:51 +0000

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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

Jean Egan — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:55:58 +0000

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!

Jean Egan — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:36:03 +0000

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

Jean Egan — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:08:38 +0000

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.)

#css

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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

Jean Egan — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:39:19 +0000

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.

#favicon #tipsandtricks

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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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Interesting, and I almost enabled it

Jean Egan — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:47:18 +0000

Good thing I researched it first. Thank you for this information.

#exim #hostsettings

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EXIM – Sender Verification Callouts – Don’t enable it, whatever you do! (UPDATE)
While haphazardly reconfiguring my MTA (Exim) for no good reason, I noticed ‘Sender Verification Callouts’. I figured, that makes sense. Of course, there are concerns such as those who use a f…

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This site is a great tool for developers

Jean Egan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:23:45 +0000

Just be sure to save your original CSS file for making updates to your code!

#css #developer

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CSS Compressor – Online code compressor for Cascading Style Sheets
Compress CSS code to reduce file size and make your sites load faster for free.

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How to redirect index.html to the home page

Jean Egan — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:29:08 +0000

Easy-peasy

#howto #html #htaccess

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How to redirect index.html and index.php to the home page
How to redirect index.html and index.php to the home page. We recently did some website work for a local business. The business was using a static html website and we wanted to convert the site to a W…

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Are you a professional who buys a ton of stock photos and don't mind getting…

Jean Egan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:26:39 +0000

Are you a professional who buys a ton of stock photos and don't mind getting into it for $2500/year?

If you're down with that, you can get a $500 iPad when you pay for your yearly subscription to Thinkstock.

#stockphotos #promotion

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Great advice on 5 friends every freelancer needs

Jean Egan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:21:25 +0000

I have collected the whole set. Woot!

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5 Friends Every Freelancer Needs
Freelancing is lonely work – quite honestly you wouldn’t have gotten into it if you just loved staff meetings and co-workers dropping by your cube unannoun

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