If you’re going to spend time watching videos online, skip YouTube and head to TED.com for the most inspiring, knowledgeable and mind blowing presentations I’ve ever seen. Below are my 10 favorites: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity – Great argument for how are school systems are setup to destroy the very skills we need [...]
Previously I wrote about the Template file hierarchy in WordPress and what your options are. However, when you’re using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), you’ll often find yourself in a position where you need extra template files outside of the normal hierarchy. In this post I’ll describe two common examples and how to [...]
Woot.com is a shopping site that sells one item a day. I love Woot (and their shirt site) and have spent an embarrassing amount of money with them. It’s often the first thing I check when I get to my desk in the morning. In purchasing a Flip for my wife the week before Christmas, [...]
I sometimes get so used to doing something a certain way, I don’t stop to ask why, or why not another way? This has been the case for me when developing web sites using PNGs instead of GIFs. I’ve often thought when looking at other sites, “Should I use GIFs?”. I spent a little bit [...]
If you’re like me, you’re always looking to multi-task faster. Being a designer trained on a Mac, when I work on a PC, I’m frustrated at how Microsoft has seemingly put it’s head in the sand when it comes to productivity. There’s a lot to be said for Apple’s integration of Dashboard Widgets, and Expose [...]
Today we launched our newest project with Ramit Sethi
New book: Blog Blazers: 40 top bloggers share their secrets to creating a high-profile, high-traffic and high-traffic blog You can see the bios of the 40 bloggers here. The interesting thing… I’ve worked with three of them to build their blog and develop their online strategies. Dane Carlson – Business Opportunities Weblog – Bio I [...]
I spent last week in Las Vegas covering a bicycle industry trade show for my other business. It was the first time I had flown since March. My flight out was on US Airways and my flight home was on Delta. I was floored by how many times I got punished for being a customer [...]
You gotta love the mass hysteria last Friday due to the report that gas prices could skyrocket on Saturday. I headed out to Kroger to pick up some groceries and the entire parking lot was full (spaces and aisles) of people waiting to get gas. There were Kroger representatives directing traffic and one told me [...]
I’ve seen and heard this before. Since WordPress is released under the GPL license then all derivative works also have to be released under GPL. (read: free) So what is a derivative work? Is it a custom theme I build for a client? Maybe… Is it selling premium themes like WooThemes and Revolution? Maybe… I [...]