It’s 80 degrees outside and marketing pros are busy planning for the holidays. If you are a consumer retailer, the holiday season can account for more than 50% of revenue for the year. Other business can also benefit from “seasoning” their marketing programs.
We ran into some trouble recently converting a dvd to mp4 video for Youtube.com use. Using the default settings in handbrake for an mp4 uses the h.264 encoder, and names the files as m4v’s. Once uploaded, Youtube failed to convert. Dustin since messed around with Handbrake and found the proper settings for ease of use, [...]
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This was actually quite a bit more difficult than I had hoped. Internet Explorer seems to put a mysterious border around the image used to replace the hr tag, when simply using a definition for background: url(/path/to/hr.png);. This can be very frustrating. You can see an example, with some css code, ignore the highlights below: [...]
I wanted to explore the simplest way to add a contact form to a WordPress site. My criteria for this is that it must be accessible to someone who has never written any html, or other code, and doesn’t want to learn simply to add a contact form. I searched around, and found some really [...]
But, Google is from Jupiter. Read this wired article by Steven Levey to gain a better understanding of the engine and help focus your work on principles that help improve your relationship with Google.
The Fresh Web presentation from our locals only class this week. Condensed coverage of happenings on the web the week of Feb 12th, 2010.
Sometimes cut and paste just doesn’t cut it.
Every once in a while we get a call from a client that wants to put a spreadsheet or a formatted Word document straight into their web site. Of course, one first turns to copy and paste to make that happen.
Should be straightforward? Of course.
But… unfortunately, that’s not the full story. Sometimes, cutting and pasting Excel spreadsheets or Word documents into CenterStage, Wordpress, or other web-based software can produce unpredictable results.
It appears the default configuration for SpamAssassin considers any date on an email far in the future to be suspicious. Unfortunately for SpamAssassin users, any date after 2009 is considered to be far in the future, leading to many deliverability issues. This means that until the SpamAssasin team release a fix, and that fix is [...]
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