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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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• 4.5.07 A Chilly Day to be Naked posted in Website Updates

  We got some April snow here in Minnesota yesterday. But that didn’t stop me from stripping off my CSS and jumping in the CSS Naked Day lake. So if you’re here and it’s April 5th, you’re seeing my site at it’s nudest, most semantic state. I didn’t disable all of the stylesheets loaded by javascript (lightbox, extended live archives, etc.), so some parts of the site function strangely well in the context of a barren landscape, but I feel like I participated.

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• 3.23.07 Online Magazine Tutorial: Part 3 posted in Web Design

  In this, the third and final installment in the Online Magazine series, I’ll explain how we used Christine Davis‘ famous Wordpress plugin, Ultimate Tag Warrior, to replace categories and tie in related sponsors to each post.

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• 3.21.07 Online Magazine Tutorial: Part 2 posted in Web Design

  This post is going to cover 2 points in my series. Tiered sponsorship levels, and random sponsorship links. We’ll share a little more code and hopefully enlighten a few readers to the possibilities of Wordpress.

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• 3.21.07 Online Magazine Tutorial: Part 1 posted in Web Design

  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m going to post a few code examples from our online magazine, basically to compile some knowledge I’ve picked up from around the net and share a few developments of my own. In this first part I’ll cover our system for “sticky” banner and secondary articles on the homepage.

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• 2.7.07 What I did on my vacation… posted in Web Design

  So I haven’t posted for a while, and you’re wondering where I’ve been. Maybe not, but I’ll probably tell you anyway. I’ve been completely obsessed with a website I’m working on for a large client, to be unveiled in the next couple of days. I can’t wait. It’s based on ModX with a lot of custom code, a completely custom design and some (if I do say so) ingenious devices for creating a multi-user news/blog site from ModX.

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• 1.26.07 Updates coming… posted in Geekery

  There are a few major updates on the way. First, with the release of Wordpress 2.1, quite a few of the template tags have changed, rendering my Wordpress theme bundle somewhat obsolete. I’m studying right now to try to provide a good update and some additional functionality. It will probably be released as a new bundle, leaving the 2.0 version for posterity.

  Second, I’ve found out a great way to add fuzzy comparison of tags to post content in TextMate, using the Porter Stemming Algorithm. I’m waiting for an answer on a question regarding bundle dependencies, but the revised Autotag bundle should be ready for release soon. In combination with the UTW-RPC plugin, it’s working as an awesome way to tag posts quickly and easily, using tags that already exist on your blog. Which, of course, is kind of the purpose of tags.

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• 1.7.07 Another look at ModX posted in Web Design

  I’m working on a CSS-debugging article, but in the meantime I thought I’d share a more sober look at the ModX CMS. I took a chance and used it to put together a static site AND a blog site for a client who needed both. I wanted a consistent login and editing […]

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• 12.30.06 Wordpress Theme Bundle for TextMate posted in Web Design, Geekery

  The Wordpress Theme Bundle has been updated, please see this post! This is the official first release of the Wordpress Theme Bundle for TextMate. It is fairly inclusive and has everything from basic structural snippets to menu based database references. The Codex is pretty darn big, so this will continue to expand. […]

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