June 7, 2010 – 9:31 am | 2 Comments

A long time ago, in a world that only used film, a lens was developed to see the whole sky. Cloud studies for meteorological use prompted the invention of the fisheye lens. It wasn’t long …

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Preview: Wordpress 3.0
April 28, 2010 – 7:36 am | One Comment
Preview: Wordpress 3.0

I was very excited when I read of Wordpress 3.0 multi-site network capabilities, so much that I had to install it to find out how it worked. How could I not? Wordpress 3.0 even has …

Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank
April 13, 2010 – 7:12 am | 3 Comments
Keeping Up With Google: Speed a Factor in Page Rank

I was reading my morning news website yesterday when I ran across a link to an article entitled “It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor” posted at SearchEngineland.com .
It seems that …

Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for Wordpress
March 2, 2010 – 10:35 am | 5 Comments
Slidepress- A Fully Customizable, Dynamic Media Player for Wordpress

Slidepress is just the latest offering from Dominey Design, a web development company in Atlanta. Their main focus- AKA obsession- is Slideshowpro- a quick and easy and versatile Flash-based slideshow application  available as a Flash …

Review: Crossbrowsertesting.com
February 1, 2010 – 2:45 pm | One Comment
Review: Crossbrowsertesting.com

Since I have already sang their praises,  this is more of an introduction to Crossbrowsertesting.com than a review. Best described as a Browser Compatibility Lab, this online service offers a place to test a website …

Wordpress Plugins for the Media Library
January 19, 2010 – 8:58 am | One Comment
Wordpress Plugins for the Media Library

Getting The Most of  Wordpress’ Media Library
After a couple of years of faithfully using Dean’s FCK Editor, we changed over to Tiny MCE Advanced Plugin- mostly because we wanted to take advantage of the new …

Jan. 18, 2010: Ping Services
January 18, 2010 – 11:41 am | One Comment

I was looking at a 112mg error log last week and i discovered that almost all of the errors were related to long gone ping services. I was googling to find the lastest working ping …

Four Companies with Great Customer Service You Should Know About.
January 14, 2010 – 9:57 am | 4 Comments
Four Companies with Great Customer Service You Should Know About.

The new year introduced me to new vendors and reinforced my belief in 2 old ones: crossbrowsertesting.com,  browsershots.org, polurnet.com, and arthemis premium wordpress theme. This is a story of great customer service.
Arthemis Premium Wordpress Theme
Some …

True Blue SEO: 3 Things I Learned About Keywords
July 7, 2009 – 7:36 am | 9 Comments
True Blue SEO: 3 Things I Learned About Keywords

After a year and half of Digitalapplejuice.com, I have learned 3 things about keywords.
1. Keyword stuffing is just bad SEO.
There are thousands of websites and consultants out there that promise to produce immediate results with …

Wordpress, ModSecurity & Polurnet
March 2, 2009 – 7:11 am | One Comment
Wordpress, ModSecurity & Polurnet

The importance of choosing the right webhosting company.
We moved Digitalapplejuice.com to Polurnet.com within one month of launching our site as a result of a 5 day outage with our previous webhost. I chose Polurnet  because …

Wordpress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.
December 5, 2008 – 1:42 am | No Comment
Wordpress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.

And not in  a good way.
If your blog looked just fine until you published that last post, if your blog post suddenly makes looks weird and the blog no longer lays out properly,  if you …

Truncating Excerpts Dynamically
November 1, 2008 – 11:00 am | No Comment

 i couldn’t make this work- may have to do with
$recent = new WP_Query("cat=27&showposts=1"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post()
i wonder if i replace that with
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
hmmm…
i emailed the author and asked …

IE CSS Problem Solving
August 20, 2008 – 10:22 am | No Comment

The most common IE problems are:

Margin Doubling! (Fix? Try Display:inline;)
Layouts look different. Columns are wider or narrower between browsers or move down the page.

this is usually caused by the content being larger than the space …

FeedWordpress Plugin and Blogger
August 16, 2008 – 1:24 pm | No Comment

They don’t play nice.
Try this fix. It works.
http://www.iross.net/blog/2007/02/12/feedwordpress-and-bloggercom/

wp2.5.1 and wp2.6
revolution city theme 1.0

also- if feedburner is strippinng formatting

delete this line
var $strip_attrs = array ( array(‘[a-z]+’, ’style’),

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