It does not help to gloss over what is coming (2)
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PEI now expects a $50 million deficit but the Treasurer says it will be OKIn 1940, England was alone facing invasion. What was Churchill's message? That we would face blood sweat and tears. But that we would fight them on the beaches.... and never surrender.England's response? We did not fold or give up - people rallied.This is the same. Stop glossing. Get real. You will be surprised at the heart and courage of Islanders.If you ...
Will alternative voices get pushed off Google’s first page of results? (4)
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That’s the question bumping around my mind after reading this post at SEObook.com: “if you are not an AdWords advertiser, are not in universal search verticals (like news and video), and are not wikipedia, then you don’t have many organic search results that you can rank for on the first page.” The image makes it clearer: In some ways, blogs are better placed than ordinary websites, as Google may be indexing your blog as part ...
How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch - NETTUTS (8)
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Creating a WordPress Theme, The Homepage Following on from the recent article on “PSD to HTML”, this tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn’t nearly cover it all. So, we’re going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up that index.html file. Overview - The ...
How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress (1)
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It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple. What we’re shooting for We’re going to be modifying the Kubrik theme ...
How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress (1)
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It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple. What we’re shooting for We’re going to be modifying the Kubrik theme ...
How to Theme any CMS Using Firebug (and MediaWiki as an Example) (1)
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Often in my career as a web ninja, I've been asked to skin or theme open source projects to bring them in line with my clients brand. Depending on the project this can be more, or less frustrating (I'm looking at you Magento) but MediaWiki is one of the easier projects to work with because of the limited number of files and things to adjust. In this tutorial we’ll go through the theming process I ...
How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter (3)
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Sometimes it seems there are as many CMS products out there as there are web developers. In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple to use product that’s come on the market recently. The Brief! Recently ...