Is This Possible?
I get asked this question a lot. In the world of web site design and development, clients and prospective clients frequently ask "is this possible?". This question is almost always related to adding features and functionality to a web site. Most of the time, or...
Newest Favorite Plugin
For some reason, the hacked code I had in place to make Gravatars show up in Posts and Comments mysteriously broke over the weekend, so after a bit of troubleshooting (and an attempt to guesstimate the issue that turned into a neat feature that makes the author's...
Is your subject line sending your email straight to the trash?
Well, that depends. Does your email subject line length rival some Shakespearean lines, or is it concise and to the point? Does it frequently include the words Reminder, Help, Percent Off or FREE? For that matter, IS IT WRITTEN ALL IN CAPS? According to several best...
The Absolute Truth – Volume 2, Issue 5 – Why Blog?
The latest issue of The 'Truth is out - Volume 2, Issue 5 - Why Blog? - Need a low-cost Web presence? You might want to consider a blog.
Press Release: 2008 ADDY Awards
Left to Right: Luke Petterson, Aziz Usmanov, Brian Meckler, Mark Huesman, MacDalton Berns, Adam Weidman, Cas Johnson. News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Moorhead Marketing Firm Wins 10 ADDY Awards Fargo, ND - The Advertising Federation of...
Why HTML E-mail Marketing?
The latest issue of The 'Truth is out - Why HTML e-mail marketing? What you're missing out on P.S. - An earlier version of the article in this issue was printed in the FM Biz Journal - Maybe that's why it seems familiar.
WordPress Gravatars on Posts AND Comments
UPDATE: This hack has just recently broken. 🙁 HOWEVER, I found a nifty plugin to replace it. With thanks to Justin P., we've figured out a way to make the Gravatars plugin for Wordpress (available at the gravatars website) display gravatars for BOTH Comments AND...
When clearing your cache doesn’t work…
So you've updated your old website - great! But if you're stuck staring at your old site even after refreshing your browser window and clearing your cache, there may be an external issue preventing you from seeing your new site. There are a couple of things that may...
How and why you may need to “clear your cache”
No no, we're not talking about your wallet. 🙂 We're talking about the memory in your browser. Why would you want to do this? Well, most often it's because you're looking at a website that should have updated changes, but no matter how many times you refresh the page,...
Images not showing up in HTML emails
So you've just gotten an HTML email in your inbox, and you're all excited to open it - wait - this isn't right! There are a lot of little red X boxes instead of images! Why is this happening? Well, your email client (Outlook, Mail, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) might...
8 Great WordPress plugins (and a couple more)
After upgrading the blog to version 2.3.1 and combing through posts like this to find good plugins, I've implemented a few on this site. The constant challenge of finding good 3rd party plugins for your Wordpress blog is that some don't play well with others and many...
It’s really late at night and I should be in bed right now
But instead I've decided to put the finishing touches on the look of these blogs for Absolute Marketing Group. I'm going to apply the styles to the rest of the installations and then I should go to bed. I'm really tired. Here's a funny link just for kicks Looks like I...