In my previous post about the Options Wordpress Theme, I mentioned how I always thought Fret Feed would work better in a magazine-style format, and I was considering using Options as a basis for the re-design. Well, it’s been done. Now I’d like to talk a little a bit my thoughts & processes for the design, and my plans for the future of this site. Keep reading →

Developers and Designers have an old saying: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”. People shouldn’t waste their time re-coding things that have already been done. I toyed around with the idea of making a “Press++” theme for Wordpress, which would be a theme that would turn Wordpress into a more robust CMS, and add a lot of useful functionality.  Fortunetly, it turns out that wheel has already been invented, and it’s free!

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I just got done Adding a new projects page to this web site, which you can view by clicking the ‘projects’ tab on the header bar, or by clicking here.

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Today I finally decided to dive into the wild world that is JavaScript. I had finally read enough about this spiffy JavaScript frame called JQuery to give it  a shot. JQ is more a replacement for JavaScript that it is a an add-on, and provides quite a bit of functionality.

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Magazine style looking blogs have been all the rage lately, and one of the best ways to enchance the look of your blog and give it this look is by adding thumbnails to your posts.  As you can see, I’ve added the functionality to this blog, and now I’ll show how you can make a few small changes to the wordpress loop to achieve the same effect. Keep reading →

John Cow just started a new contest on his site, to promote the release of a new product called StoreStacker.  StoreStacker seems pretty cool. It’s a piece of software that will automatically set up an affiliate store for you, using offers from several different affiliates.

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Everyone who blogs talk about how much they want to get links to help them climb up the SERPs.  One way of doing this is by giving out links generously to other bloggers you like. Sometimes you get a link back.  If you don’t, it’s still good karma.

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Whenever you have a form on your website, and you are putting that data into a MySQL database, you have to take some precautions.  People can inject SQL queries from the form, and you can’t let people do that. Just imagine if someone injected a DROP TABLE statement.

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When starting a new website, choosing a hosting company is one of, if not the, most important decisions you will make. When starting out, I asked friends, looked at several options, And decided that HostMonster was the best. when checking out www Hostmonster com , I came across several reasons why this was the hosting company to use.

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As you can see, this blog recently underwent a facelift. It’s not as drastic as the last time I updated this blog, but I was toying with it, wanted to give it a cleaner look, and ended up with this. I figured it would be an interesting look at the design process to examine the changes I made, and why I made them. Keep reading →