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Category Archives: Web Design
NYT: Marketing Your Business With Facebook
Succinct article from the New York Times today about marketing with Facebook, Quick Tips: Identify a short list of goals before you begin. Show some personality in your page. Don’t shill. Use your page to engage-and trust that sales will follow. Use Facebook data to analyze your customer demographics. via Small-Business Guide – Marketing Your [...]
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Ari Relaunches: BAPC.info
Announcing the relaunch of the Web site for the Bay Area Photographers Collective. It looks very similar to what was there before but the backend is now built in wordpress and is much easier to update. there’s a lot of event and exhibition content, a regular flow of members and a blog. I was excited to try [...]
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Ning Alternatives
I recently launched a Ning site for the Oakland Museum of California: http://diasdelosmuertos.ning.com It is a community for celebrating Dias de los muertos (Day of the Dead). Overall it was a good experience for a project with a tiny budget and very fast schedule. There are lots of features on Ning but very limited ways [...]
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5 Small Businesses Successfully Using Social Media
5 creative solutions that show it’s not about the monetary investment you make in social media, but how you use these channels to communicate and build a community. Find what it is you have that can add something of value to the conversation online. In today’s connected world, it is the story and personality of [...]
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upgrade time: WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release
The headline changes in this release are: A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen. Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated. Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins. Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old [...]
The Drupal Gardens Affect
An interesting take on the upcoming “Drupal Gardens”. It works well for WordPress and I’m sure a hosted solution will work well in growing the Drupal community also. I prefer the simplicity of WordPress unless there is a justification for the features of Drupal. But this could give me an excuse to use Drupal for [...]
The World Beach Project: A Creative Contributory Project that Shines
This article evaluates why the interaction design of the project enabled it’s success … There are lots of museums … looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online… The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence [...]
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Facebook Privacy: 10 Tips
10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy From Dr. Mercola (What do you think about him? I never heard of him before.) Facebook has over 300 million active users…. via 10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy .
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New options for fonts on the web: Typekit