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You: I don’t like that. Facebook: Yes you do.

Apr 23 2010 / 4:27 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I have to hand it to Facebook.  Tons of people despise the service openly, but everyone and their mom is still there. You are probably still using it aren’t you? Sure there are a decent number of people who deactivate their account in anger when the staff opens up [...]

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Love, Hate and Third Party Comment Systems

Jan 19 2010 / 2:14 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people would see extra work to [...]

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Ads and Artisteer

Nov 23 2009 / 12:19 am Was written by Amber View Comments

To state the obvious, ads are usually annoying. Usually they are only vaguely related to the content on the page and most of the time it is a highest bidder situation and not one where the website owner actually cares about the product. While this is totally understandable when the money is right, many of [...]

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14 Reasons Your Site Is Evil

Nov 13 2009 / 6:14 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Image by Bull3t via Flickr Everyone loves a nice pretty website. The design pops on the screen and it invites you to settle in and enjoy the experience.  Often designers and/or their clients take two approaches to catch the viewers eye:  some choose sleek minimal ideas and others go hog wild with bright colors, animations [...]

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Bannerific

Jul 12 2009 / 10:37 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Today I was focused on making a couple of banners for a few websites (SDA included).   I decided it was time for a web search intervention so I would not spend an entire day doing the wrong thing. In one of the top results, I found a nice straightforward video tutorial at Hiphop Makers. This [...]

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Favicons Are Our Friends

May 27 2009 / 8:40 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via Wikipedia Sure there are plenty of posts out there on the internet covering this same topic.  For some reason there are still not enough sources.  So here is one more. Favicon = is a small graphic that is associated with a page or Web site. (short for favorite icon, sometimes understood as favorites [...]

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Cushy CMS

Jan 28 2009 / 2:58 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Need a CMS without a bunch of drama? Hate having to deal with installing databases? Cushy CMS makes handling mostly static websites a bit simpler for you and clients by adding an interface between the user and the HTML. By adding the Cushy class into the HTML of the page, you make it a little [...]

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