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9 Logical Reasons Why You Need to Integrate Twitter into Your Website Image

9 Logical Reasons Why You Need to Integrate Twitter into Your Website

Matt | Monday, June 15th, 2009 21 comments

Regardless of who you are or what you do, the advantages to integrating Twitter into your website will almost always outweigh the disadvantages.

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10 Ways to Keep Your Precious Followers on Twitter Image

10 Ways to Keep Your Precious Followers on Twitter

Matt | Monday, May 18th, 2009 43 comments

How much do you value your Twitter followers? If the answer is “a lot”, then here are some general guidelines that you should consider following if you’d like that latest follower to continue following you for the long run.

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9 Brilliant Ways To Ensure Client Satisfaction and Project Success Image

9 Brilliant Ways To Ensure Client Satisfaction and Project Success

Matt | Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 7 comments

Arguably the two most important aspects of a web design freelancer or web design firm’s operations are client satisfaction and project success. Without client satisfaction and project success, you’ll be hard pressed to obtain quality referrals, testimonials, and additional work from a client.

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19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use Image

19 Essential WordPress Plugins That Every Professional Website Should Use

Matt | Monday, March 30th, 2009 29 comments

Pretty bold title, huh? Well, I’ve been a fan of WordPress for years. I’m an avid supporter of the robust and highly intuitive blogging platform and have contributed to the WordPress community over the past few years by launching a professional WordPress themes website, creating a useful plugin (Twitter ReTweet) for Twitter/WordPress integration, and advocating the use of WordPress to clients and friends alike.

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11 Absolutely Necessary Web-Based Tools for a Freelance Web Designer Image

11 Absolutely Necessary Web-Based Tools for a Freelance Web Designer

Matt | Monday, March 23rd, 2009 31 comments

I’m feeling extra generous today, so I’m going to share the most important web-based tools that we use at CHROMATIC to run the majority of our operations.

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Who Likes a Messy Office? Guest Post by New Media Thinker Tim Jahn Image

Who Likes a Messy Office? Guest Post by New Media Thinker Tim Jahn

Tim | Monday, March 9th, 2009 Post a comment

Chances are prospective customers are going to check out your website before anything else about you.  It’s important that your website is just as inviting as your office. Is the place a mess?

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Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views Image

Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views

Chris | Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 18 comments

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can easily leverage the power of Views 2 to create a simple block that displays “Related Posts by this Author” information. To break it down, here’s exactly what we need to do: when a user has navigated to a specific node, we want to use that node author’s user ID as a key to load other posts by that author. Continue Reading »

Conversion Magnet: 10 Tips to Creating a Brilliant Landing Page Image

Conversion Magnet: 10 Tips to Creating a Brilliant Landing Page

Matt | Monday, March 2nd, 2009 9 comments

Building a great website and building a great landing page are two completely different things. While a strong website can grab the attention of visitors, a strong landing page can (and should) take those visitors and transform them into conversions.

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