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Blogging Web Development WordPress

WordPress As a CMS

Rather than reinvent the wheel here I’m going to share some articles I both agree with and have found helpful in the past. WordPress is extremely powerful in its simplicity but is made more powerful by its loyal users. The future of this platform is very exciting as we stretch the possibilities of traditional websites.

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Web Development

16 Useful Blogs for Web Design and Inspiration

Staying updated with high-quality web design resources is crucial in today’s fast-paced industry. To help inspire creativity and problem-solving, here’s a refreshed list of websites that consistently offer valuable insights, tutorials, and design inspiration for web professionals. These sites cover a range of styles, techniques, and trends that reflect the ever-evolving landscape of digital design. […]

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How To Web Development

Using Custom Social Bookmark Icons With AddThis Analytics

(Note: This code is meant to be put in your WordPress Template. However, it should be easy to modify it for other uses.)

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Blogging Plugins Rant Web Development WordPress

Woah! I Can't Read Your WordPress Blog

I’ve made this mistake in the past and it may have cost me a few readers. People get trigger happy with their plugins and readers can’t get to the content.

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Digital Marketing Flash How To Variable Video

Variable Video

I’ve talked about variable video and personalized video a little in the past. Now let’s look at some more examples and break down some of their components.

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Digital Marketing Flash

Interactive at Drupa

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had the privilege of working on a cross media marketing campaign for Canon Europe. In true ‘I can do anything’ fashion, we at Magicomm decided to throw everything we had into it. The campaign is going to be showcased in the Canon booth at Drupa.

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Digital Marketing Flash How To Variable Video

Interactive Video How-To and Examples

I talked awhile back about personalized video and how it could be (is) the next big marketing medium. The benefits of personalized video are obvious, you’ll get better quality personal information and it is very viral.

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Flash

Desktop Takeover – April fools joke using Flash

This is a little trick I’ve pulled on some family members in the past and most recently on my boss for April Fools. All you need for this is a working version of Adobe Flash.

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Blogging How To Social Media Web Development

Anatomy of a Blog – Scripting for Social Media

There’s a small back story to this entry. Ive been working with an open source content management system for my company Magicomm and it eventually came time when we decided we were going to start our own blog. My goal was to use the preexisting framework of the CMS to smoothly integrate the blogging software […]

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Actionscript 3.0 Flash Free Web Development

Realistic Fog/Smoke Effect

Here’s another effect using AS3 to make fog with source files below.