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WordPress Plugin: Twitter ReTweet Image

WordPress Plugin: Twitter ReTweet

Posted by: Matt 43 comments

I spent the last few hours scouring the net, searching for a WordPress plugin that we could use to output a basic, stylable link anywhere on a WordPress post or page which, when clicked, would allow our visitors to quickly and easily ReTweet (RT) the current post.

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CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free Image

CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free

Posted by: Matt 25 comments

Although we thought this problem had been perfected years ago, we still manage to come across professional, high-trafficked websites using broken and outdated CSS image rollover techniques. This is absolutely unacceptable and unnecessary.

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10 Must-Have Drupal Modules for Drupal Web Developers Image

10 Must-Have Drupal Modules for Drupal Web Developers

Posted by: Chris 10 comments

Each Drupal developer out there has their own list of their “must-have” modules. These modules are the tarballs (.tar) that each developer downloads and unzips immediately after installing the Drupal CMS. The following list is partially mine and partially that of my Twitter followers.

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jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly Image

jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly

Posted by: Chris 8 comments

A couple of weeks ago, a client of ours needed a simple way to select some or all options in a multiple select form element that contained hundreds of options. Basically, they had various State/County combination’s that they needed to assign to different pieces of content.

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11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter Image

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter

Posted by: Matt 18 comments

Nearly every website owner or web developer has asked this question at one time or another: Why should I use a Web Content Management System (WCMS)? If you value your time, money, and sanity, then there are several reasons why using a Web CMS is superior to hand-coding a website.

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The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’ Image

The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’

Posted by: Matt 44 comments

If your website doesn’t stand out and do a heck of a lot of things right, then chances are it’s going to crash and burn. Take our “Successful Website Checklist Challenge” (below) and see what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and what you’re forgetting to do. We’ve even included notes and resources for nearly every item on the checklist (just to make your life easier).

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13 Reasons Why CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design Image

13 Reasons Why CSS Is Superior to Tables in Website Design

Posted by: Matt 86 comments

For the past few days, we’ve been scouring the web searching for the top 13 reasons why Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are superior to table-based layouts when designing a website. Some web designers swear that table-based layouts are better than CSS-based layouts, while others believe that table-based layouts are ancient history and XHTML combined with CSS is the only real solution to coding a web site’s visual layout. Since we’re one of those CSS die-hards, we’ve compiled a list of 13 reasons why CSS-based layouts are superior to table-based layouts.

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