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WordPress: adding extra line breaks, vertical space and more

By Ari Salomon | Published: July 13, 2009
There are issues with all the wysiwyg editors out there. It’s a problem with Drupal too. It’s hard to make a browser-based tool that just works right. What WordPress is trying to do is “clean” the code. This is useful in many situations but not always.
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Review Santa Fe 2009

By Ari Salomon | Published: July 2, 2009
There have been so many great blog posts and interviews about this event. I’ll briefly say what a useful and intense event it was for me. Just getting my talking points organized for it was really helpful. Meeting the other artists gave me a perspective that was as useful as the reviewers feedback. I want [...]
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CSS: How to vertically center content on a page

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 28, 2009
Do you have a  page where you want to simply center it both vertically and horizontally? Looking for a pure CSS solution?
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Do-it-yourself website options – photography

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 22, 2009
I am often asked how to make a website on low/no budget… Tim Peter’s”Thinks” Blog: Here’s a great overview of current blog/cms options. it compares these 5 services: Weebly, SiteKreator, SynthaSite, WordPress.com (the free version) & Webnode Most of these sites offer free versions with paid upgrades for ad-free, custom domain names and other add-ons.
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WordPress event plug-ins

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 16, 2009
The best WordPress event plug-in is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-calendar/ It allows you to add ‘events’ to any blog post. So the blog post becomes the ‘more info’ listing and then can be viewed in various calendar formats. It’s powerful.
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Web designers toolkit: server monitoring

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 5, 2009
MONITOR SERVER UPTIME/DOWNTIME http://www.visistat.com server uptime is only one small feature of their analytics package. http://watchmouse.com features a nice mac dashboard widget http://site24x7.com Can pay for just a limited number of sms messages on an otherwise free account. http://aremysitesup.com They have an iPhone app with push notification that can alert you to your site’s status. [...]
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Web designers toolkit: QA browser and email client testing

By Ari Salomon | Published: June 5, 2009
BROWSER TESTING SERVICES updated 1/23/2012 adobe browserlab Screenshots only. A new service… (introduced mid 2009; still free – until april 2012 although they keep extending the free period). This is really impressive – my new main tool and it’s free. I wish it had a better interface – some simple buttons to allow browsing through [...]
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Web 2.0 expo 2009 notes

By Ari Salomon | Published: April 5, 2009
1) For screen sharing http://www.oneeko.com/ Free for one-to-one. Allows sharing of only part of a screen – interesting interface. Guests don’t have to download anything – it runs in flash. Paid version has support for 8 guests, whiteboard But users can’t control each others cursor.  So skype screen sharing is tough competition for them since [...]
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Listings of fine art photography awards and submission deadlines

By Ari Salomon | Published: April 4, 2009
Here’s a start of a list of lists—all about finding the right competitions, grants and awards. There are so many available but I find most of them are not worth the time and expense of applying. Mary Virginia Swanson: List of approaching deadlines Swanson is well known in the photo world. I had a chance [...]
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Mission Armory

By Ari Salomon | Published: March 1, 2009
Each of these articles I found online adds another small facet to the strange history of this building. I’d heard of this idea of converting the Armory to creative uses a long time ago when I moved to the Mission in 1993. A couple years later I visited PS1 in New York and it occurred [...]
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