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• 6.3.07 Shorter Twitter Sidebar Links posted in Web Design, Geekery

  A quick note for people using Twitter and Wordpress. You’ve probably noticed that nasty problem I was having where the twitter sidebar links were overlapping the blog’s main text on the front page when twitter failed to tinyurl the link. Well, I fixed it…

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• 6.1.07 Semantic Details posted in Web Design

  When we did our Circle Six redesign, it was important to me that we go out of our way to make this our most semantic and accessible site yet. Clean, semantic code was the goal, and here are some details that we considered that you may want to keep in mind for your next project…

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• 5.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 5.26.07 Storing a Query posted in Web Design

  I’ve finally “finished” the C6 website to my satisfaction and am ready to start blogging a little more regularly. I thought I’d kick it off with a new series on “how I did it” and reveal a few techniques I learned/developed in the process of making the new site. Today I’m going to go over the last one I figured out: Storing a Wordpress database query while you run a second one on a page…

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• 5.6.07 MAMP Universal Binary posted in Web Design, Geekery

  MAMP 1.6 is out as a universal binary (Mac Apache MySql PHP). Version 1.4.1 is available as both Intel and Power PC only downloads from the same page. I still haven’t tried MAMP Pro, but the combination of MAMP, Headdress and a good Subversion workflow have kept me plenty happy.

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• 3.18.07 An Online Magazine: Circle Six Style posted in Web Design

  We’re in the process of launching a new format for the Natural Communities magazine’s online presence this week, and have done a lot of custom Wordpress programming for it. Over the next few days I’m going to do a series on some of the finer custom points of the online magazine and how we’re pulling it off. We’ll cover a few topics…

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• 2.21.07 Twitter.xml posted in Geekery

  I revamped the Twitter sidebar using PHP and XML so that it doesn’t hang when loading. It had been using an external javascript and when Twitter was slow, well, the front page of the blog didn’t even finish loading. So now it’s speedier and I can still pretend that everybody cares what I’m doing every 15 minutes ;-). Addendum: I swear it was working a minute ago. I think WP-Cache is messing with my code.

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• 1.1.07 ModX Review posted in Web Design

  I always promise a post (I said I’d write a short TextMate tutorial), and then find something terribly exciting to write about before I get the intended post finished. And this one is exciting. If you’re using Joomla/Mambo and looking for an XHTML/CSS solution, read on. I had initially passed over the ModX CMS […]

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• 12.31.06 Server Switch-a-roo posted in Circle Six Happenings, Website Updates

  Well, I’m now a server admin. Like I didn’t have enough to worry about. But Circle Six Design had hit a point where it no longer made sense to use a shared host but we’re not big enough to have a full time IT person yet. So it’s up to me […]

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• 11.10.06 A Wordpress Menu Solution posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I love using the wp_list_pages function to pull in the pages on a Wordpress site to create menus, but I sometimes get frustrated that I can’t assign individual CSS classes to each menu item. But I enjoy a challenge. Here’s my solution. http://pastie.textmate.org/22226 It’s basically a preg_replace in PHP that looks for all of the […]

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