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6 More WordPress Plugins You Should Be Using

March 27, 2009

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Back in February I put together a list of essential plugins for your WordPress website or blog. Since then I’ve come across some additional plugins that I think would be useful to install and which I thought would be worth … Continue reading

Customizing the WordPress Login Screen

March 24, 2009

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When you’re building a website in WordPress, you can customize just about anything – and the login screen is no exception to that. It doesn’t take much time to do, and it’s one of those little touches that are a … Continue reading

Best and Worst Websites of NCAA Tournament Teams

March 20, 2009

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I promised in last week’s post about the NCAA conferences that I would take a look at the websites of all of the teams that received automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. I’ve changed that slightly, so instead I … Continue reading

Style Your Form Fields with Icons to Improve Usability

March 16, 2009

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From a usability standpoint, long forms with plain-text labels can be quite boring visually. One way to avoid this problem is to use icons within your input fields to visually indicate what the field is asking for. It’s a nice … Continue reading

Pre-Madness Spotlight: NCAA Conference Websites

March 12, 2009

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March in America is synonymous with college basketball. All 30 of the conferences in Division I college sports have a basketball tournament this week leading up the NCAA tournament, so in honor of  “championship week”, I thought it would be … Continue reading

Business Implications of Facebook’s New Page Features

March 10, 2009

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Late last week Facebook announced some new changes to how their business pages look. I was skeptical at first about some of these changes, but now that I implemented them on Addicott Web’s Facebook page, I’m sold. What I want … Continue reading

Upgrading Your Comments Area in WordPress 2.7

March 5, 2009

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Bloggers know that commenting is vital for the long-term success of their blog, and I’m no exception to that. I’ve known that the comments area of my blog wasn’t as supportive of good commenting as it should have been, but … Continue reading

Styling Your Forms to Improve Usability

March 2, 2009

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HTML forms are always a contentious subject in web design. As a designer, whether you like them or not, forms are important to understand -  especially so since how they are designed has important implications for whether they achieve your … Continue reading