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What’s the difference between a logotype and a logomark?

By Ari Salomon | Published: February 10, 2014

When clients ask me to design a logo for their business I always start with this discussion of what kind of “logo” they need. A “logo” is often made of a logotype and a logomark. But not every business needs both. A logotype stands for words or the name of a business that is designed in a customized way. […]

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Embedded tweets in WordPress

By Ari Salomon | Published: January 15, 2014

It was a great idea when introduced just a year or two ago but at this point it seems it’s a feature that is no longer supported. Some users report that it only works sometimes. Twitter is famous for having its servers become unavailable so perhaps it’s not ideal to rely on “oEmbed” anyway. Embeds work just […]

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Stripe, Gravity Forms and WooCommerce

By Ari Salomon | Published: November 20, 2013

I have more and more clients who are enjoying using Gravity Forms and Stripe or Braintree to build order forms and take payments on their own sites. Note that the Stripe Add-on for Gravity Forms is free – no yearly fees for the software – if you host your WordPress site with me and/or have […]

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Feet+wheelchair=Staircase

By Ari Salomon | Published: October 18, 2013

  What an amazing idea – take a wide staircase and “overlap” a ramp for wheelchairs. Makes me want to think out of the box about using phrases like “think out of the box”. For everyone who has ever gotten around in a or pushed around a baby stroller, you know how frustrating it is […]

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Google Apps vs Outlook.com for free email hosting at your domain

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 26, 2013

UPDATE: outlook.com no longer supports custom domains: After July 2014, domain administrators will no longer be able add or remove email accounts in your domain. Domain administrators are encouraged to move to Office 365 to get enhanced features and capabilities for modern enterprise-class mail, collaboration and communications.   Back at the end of 2012 Google’s big […]

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Gravity Forms FreshBooks Add-On and Recurring Payments

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 18, 2013

Gravity Forms and FreshBooks — my two favorite services (software is a service, of course) — now play nicely with each other. Let me start with the bad news: the invoice that can be generated is not sent automatically (it is only added to FreshBooks in Draft mode) and there is no provision to send recurring […]

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Google Apps – 3 options for forwarding email via filters and groups

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 12, 2013

Here’s some instructions on how to add and subtract people’s email from a forward or a list. First decide if you want to forward to one person or set up more of a list that forwards to multiple people (who can be in your Google Apps domain or outside of it). There are 3 options: 1) […]

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Tint for social mashups and connect pages

By Ari Salomon | Published: September 6, 2013

An interesting new option for a very visual way to ‘mash up’ any social feeds. http://www.tintup.com The video on the front page is pretty good at explaining what it is. Here’s a quick test I did just importing my Facebook page and Pinterest profile http://www.helloari.com/connect/ It choked on my LInkedIn profile and I didn’t take […]

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WCSF: Notes From WordCamp 2013

By Ari Salomon | Published: August 4, 2013

Sadly, I missed WordCamp this year since I was still in Japan. But I did watch the State of the Word Video: …and I have two take-aways… 1) Stats First is the statistic that I keep focusing on — because I am always using it with my clients —  how many sites use WordPress? WordPress […]

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April’s war on WordPress security

By Ari Salomon | Published: April 12, 2013

This is a month that will go down in infamy. Well, at least as far as WordPress security goes. There is a massive worldwide “brute force” attack going on and servers far and wide are experiencing slowdowns and lockouts. There is not alot of information yet.  The attack is known to be using forged or spoofed IP addresses. […]

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