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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 8 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

Matt | Monday, March 30th, 2009 40 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 34 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? (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 28 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.

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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 12 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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15 Common Drupal Problems That Make You Scream (Solutions Included) Image

15 Common Drupal Problems That Make You Scream (Solutions Included)

Chris | Saturday, February 21st, 2009 17 comments

Whether you are a Drupal newcomer or a seasoned Drupal ninja, you’re bound to run into one, some, or all of the issues outlined below. Some are obvious, some not so obvious, but I’ll show you how to troubleshoot them all regardless.

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