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Put a Facebook Send or Like Button on Your Posts with Code

On April 25, 2011, Facebook released the [Send] button. The [Send] button provides a means to share a web page with someone directly, as opposed to the [Like] button’s behavior of placing the entry on your wall for all your friends. Of course, the [Like] button is handy too. Fortunately

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Obfuscating Email Addresses

I’ve long held that putting a plain text email on a website is not a good idea. Even with being careful like this I’m inundated with a large amount of Spam. While I don’t put my email address online in a plain text fashion, and preach the same to others, I’m not always afforded

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The History of WordPress

Very cool infographic on the power and prevalence of WordPress in blogging and CMS. Not only is it well crafted but has the support of many plugin and theme developers.

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Silver Surfer Computer Support

Not only is web design lacking in considering the needs and considerations around the older web surfers, but lack of respect also is not unheard of in the area of computer support.

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Adding Widget Areas to a Page

Setting up customized widget areas within a WordPress theme is not really that difficult once you know the basic steps. The widgets need to be registered, the theme needs to make a call to include widgets and then a custom php page needs to sometimes be built to call the custom widget areas and format them.

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Customizing a WordPress Theme – The Right Way

Customizing a WordPress theme’s look-and-feel is easier than you might expect. It is important, though, to do it the right way. What is the right way? It is to use a Child Theme.

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Foray into WordPress Themes and Plugins

During much of the past 20 years the main lifeblood of, first, Software Solution Specialists, and now JVHM, Inc., has been to develop custom client-server software applications.  Applications have ranged from Client Relationship Management (CRM) systems to HR systems to barcode labeling systems and

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WordPress Plugins Worth Mentioning

I always have a few WordPress plugins incorporated into my website designs. Why wouldn’t I? They save me time, which equates to my clients’ money, and often provides solutions that are more robust or integrated than I would have the time to code myself.

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WordPress 3.0 Has Arrived!

With over 2.5 million downloads in less than 2 weeks, WordPress 3.0 is quickly being adopted as the best web publishing software platform available today. And it is available to everyone free of charge! That means an organization can have a full featured, customized web site built for much less and quicker than a traditional custom web site.

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Video Sitemaps – Do You Have One?

If your website contains video content you will want to create an XML Video Sitemap to help build video SEO. Search engines, like Google, are doing what they can to discover video content. Creating a video sitemap will help them to discover your videos.

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