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Using Friendfeed as a Lifestream within WordPress
Reading time: 3 minutesI spent days (literally) looking for a good lifestreaming plugin for WordPress to showcase some of the exploits that I have my hand in on a daily basis (videos, twitter, pictures, etc). The ones I found had certain features that I liked, but none of them really LOOKED (format-wise) how I wanted it to. Enter…
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BarCampMemphis – My Slides / Presentations (#BCMEM)
Reading time: 1 minuteHere’s the UStream file of my first session that happened at BarCampMemphis. The second session lost the stream, and (therefore) my recording was cut. Sorry! Free video streaming by Ustream And here are the slideshows: Blogging 101 / Intro to WordPress View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: bcmem barcampnashville) Making WordPress Dance (BCMEM…
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I’ll see you at BarCampMemphis!
Reading time: 1 minuteDave Barger graciously invited me to speak at Memphis’ BarCamp, so I will be making the voyage from Nashvegas to Graceland tomorrow. Not sure what the plans are for tomorrow night, but Saturday’s going to be an action packed day. I’ll be speaking on blogging 101 (specifically with WordPress) and then doing an advanced tactics…
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Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD file – Part 3 (The WordPress Structure)
Reading time: 3 minutesIn our quest to take a WordPress theme from start to finish (Photoshop to Functional Theme), we have reached what most people would call the end of their journey. We’ve taken our Photoshop file, made the necessary slices and converted it to an .html file. If we wanted this page to remain a static web…
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I has an Alltop Listing!!
Reading time: 1 minuteI got the awesome news today via email: We recently added your site to Alltop (http://wordpress.alltop.com/). Alltop is an “online magazine rack” that aggregates RSS feeds about popular topics. If you don’t know what Alltop is, it was created by Guy Kawasaki to aggregate the “egos” of certain topics (Fashion, WordPress, Venture Capitalists, etc). Your…
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Good (and Bad) Design in Politics, Part 2
Reading time: 2 minutesThe Great It’s one day before the most historic election anyone can remember, and the websites are getting traffic hits in the millions as the clock winds down. The first post focused on the main candidates, but there are other policy groups, politicians, and lobby groups that have fantastic designs. Better Roads Now I love…
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Awesome Starbucks Commercial: Vote, Drop by Starbucks, Get Free Coffee!
Reading time: 1 minuteI love this commercial. I got chills watching it. It doesn’t matter if you’re voting for Obama or McCain or anyone else – just go vote.
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Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD file – Part 2 (Photoshop File to HTML)
Reading time: 3 minutesThis is the 2nd part in a series on turning a design done in Photoshop into a WordPress theme. I’m documenting taking a client’s theme from concept to functional site, showing a brief overview of the steps that I take. When last we met, I had just put the final touches on the WordPress design…
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Creating a WordPress Theme from a .PSD File – Part 1 (Background)
Reading time: 2 minutesA lot of people ask me what process I use to design themes for WordPress, and my answer to that question is the same answer I give to people who ask my design process “in general”: I start with a Photoshop mockup and take it into HTML via Dreamweaver. The only difference is that I…
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Roll Call! NashMash Twitter Users, Speak Up!
Reading time: 1 minuteI’ve gotten a LOT… a BOATLOAD… a RIDONKULOUS amount of new users from the Nash Mash list (and still getting them). Don’t worry if you get one of those autogenerated messages from me – I really do want to connect and meet any new people in the Nashville area. But, since i’ve got you on…
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