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I recently had a client who requested his blog display posts similar to GigaOm.com — one featured excerpt, three featured headlines, followed by the standard Loop and pagination…

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A French blogger named Yves has created eight (!) video tutorials which demonstrate basic configuration, adding images, CSS styling, tabs, and overall homepage setup for the Mimbo theme (English translation here).

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Not that the saga’s a fascinating one, but if you recall the earlier post I made about my band’s involvement in the Rolling Stone/Camel cigarettes case, you’ll recall that I didn’t know how an unknown band like ours made it to a Camel advertisement in the first place…

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I wouldn’t advise republishing content from any old RSS feed, but sometimes there’s a reason…

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From the beginning, Mimbo was meant to function like an empty framework that enabled developers to build advanced WP layouts more quickly. Developers ran with the idea, adding their own custom graphics and CSS.

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Around Christmas, I had a client ask for masthead imagery that would automatically swap in/out based on the time of year. Here is the HTML/PHP I used…

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Wait — should I not have invited these guys into my home? Oh god I think I hearthemcoming up b hind me*&)(lL*a)_@szxvb#$()*$#
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This week, the total downloads for Mimbo surpassed 13,000! If I didn’t work for the company that hosts darrenhoyt.com, I’m sure I would have already received an unaffordable bill as bandwidth usage has exceeded 15GB/month. I’m also amused to see how all the Mimbo backlinks have skewed my Technorati rankings.

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Some people learn the hard way, and some need convincing before giving credit for content. Luckily, an htaccess fix and certain wordpress plugins will defend your site, but nothing’s foolproof.

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I just woke up after traveling 36 hours from Cape Town to Jo’burg to Senegal to New York to Washington to Virginia. South Africa was a fascinating place which I’ll post about more extensively in the next while. I got to surf with sharks, play with penguins on the beach, have drinks with Adii, and [...]

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At the beginning of this month, I mentioned I’d be developing a paid version of the Mimbo theme while continuing to evolve the free version. My original deadline was the end of this year, but…

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VirtualHosting has published a list of lessons taken from eye-tracking studies over the years. As applied to web design, eye-tracking is a method of analyzing user interactions according to how information is oriented on the page. It’s especially vital in layouts which are complex but also expect users to focus on different elements in a specific order — this applies to advertising in particular.

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Our client wants a medium-sized site he can edit using Wordpress as a CMS. Some sections in the navigation will have subpages, while some will not. We’re going to need a conditional that checks for subpages, and if they exist, uses a two-column layout…

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First of all, hope everyone is enjoying doing what they are doing for the holidays, if in fact you’re celebrating holidays. If you’re not, I hope you are at least, unlike me, spending time away from the computer…

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