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• 6.5.07 Fine Tuned 404 posted in Web Design

  As part of the Circle Six redesign, I culled the portfolio and in the process broke just about every link that Google had indexed. A new sitemap and some redirect pages are taking care of SEO, but in the interim, a lot of visitors are getting 404 pages. So I borrowed a tip from the blog and added a suggest feature to the C6 404 page…

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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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• 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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• 5.29.07 Wordpress Optimization posted in Web Design

  I’m going to take a “back-to-work” break after the long weekend and let my friend Marco do the blogging today. He’s got a great article on some things that anyone can do to optimize their Wordpress site (or any site), and it includes a few things I hadn’t heard before. Also included in the article is a great new plugin that he wrote, called WP-CSS-Streamliner, which will take all of the CSS files linked in each page, combine them in the order they were linked, optimize them, gzip-compress them and serve them up before any javascript is loaded. This is especially great if you’re running anything like Extended Live Archives or WP-Lightbox, which stick their own CSS files into the head. It’s running right now on the main C6 site, and although it comes with no guarantees, it’s working great. Check it out: On a quest for the ultimate website performance.

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• 4.21.07 Even Better Gallery posted in Wordpress Links

  The Slidez xml feed inspired me to create my own gallery function for it. But then I figured why not do the same thing with Flickr and keep my photos somewhere they’d actually be found? Fortunately I found the Falbum plugin and just made some minor modifications to it. The Gallery is now driven by Flickr, and the Flickr feed on the homepage runs off the plugin. Everything looks the same, minus a little lightbox action (which was a conscious decision). I love being able to use the Flickr Uploader, tag my images and have my new albums be out there for more than just my blog readers. Now I just have to get our new photographer to submit some work (he’s awesome).

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• 4.8.07 Better Code Display on C6 posted in Geekery

  I finally got around to making the display of code better on the blog. The rest of this post is an example to test out a couple of TextMate drag commands, external code linking, scriptaculous effects and other niceties. If it all works, I’ll share all the tools.

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• 4.1.07 C6 Old Post Alert 1.1 Release posted in Geekery

  Hey, the C6 Old Post Alert Plugin made it to the download section. Lots of improvements, probably more to come. Check it out and let me know if you like it (or have problems with it).

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• 4.1.07 Wordpress Old Post Alert Plugin posted in Geekery

  Fine, it’s a plugin now: c6oldposts.zip. All you have to do is unzip, upload, and turn it on. It will check the current post and if it’s more than a month old, will insert a div with an id of “oldpostalert” before the content, containing a message stating how old the post is (taken from Alex King’s plugin). However, I’ve switched from the related posts method to Ultimate Tag Warrior’s related posts by tag since it’s much more accurate. If you don’t have UTW installed, it will skip that part, but if you do, you’ll love the results. I’ll make this an official plugin on the downloads page after a little more testing.

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• 3.22.07 Twitter to Blog and Back posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I had been working on a Twitter interface for the blog that would allow me to do a little micro blogging, but was having trouble getting it to play nice with wp-cache and when it did, it didn’t even show up half the time. So, after hours of frustration I discovered a plugin under development by Alex King called Twitter Tools for Wordpress. It’s in beta, but I have no complaints so far.

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• 2.23.07 TextMate and Firefox posted in Geekery

  I’ve never gotten along too well with the Mozex plugin that should allow me to edit Firefox textareas in TextMate. Fortunately, a new plugin seems to make things a lot easier…

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