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Business Tip of the Day for March 9th, 2011

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Be Agile The more agile and flexible your business is, the better your chances for success in an ever-changing industry environment. Keep an Eye on the Competition The market for low-cost web design is becoming saturated with competing services and service providers. If you are consistently seeing competitors enter your sphere, it could be time…

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Adding Post Excerpts to your WordPress Static Front Page

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I would have thought that solutions to this scenario would have been all over Google, but alas I had to dig to find snippets of information that eventually allowed me to write the code that I wanted. What I wanted: A list of my top 5 blog posts to appear on my WordPress site’s static…

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Getting Real About Agile Design

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A great article on Agile design for the web design world, published on A List Apart. An excerpt: “Agile is no more “best practice” than Python, usability testing, or microformats. It’s just a tool: sometimes appropriate, sometimes not. To this end we see the emergence of post-Agilism, which tries to retain a lower-case-a agile mindset…

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Technical vs Human Engineering

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Some food for thought: Research performed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching discovered the following: In technical fields such as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due to one’s technical knowledge and abilities, and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, meaning personality and the ability to lead…

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Introduction to the Thematic WordPress Framework

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Great SitePoint article on creating a WordPress child theme based on the Thematic framework.

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Properties & Aesthetics of Digital Environments

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In her book, “Hamlet on the Holodeck,” Janet Murray discusses the properties and aesthetics of digital environments. In doing so, she describes a set of parameters that can be used as a framework for analyzing multi-linear narrative works. Murray’s four properties of digital environments are that they are: 1) Procedural; 2) Participatory; 3) Spatial; and…

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