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WordPress Tutorial: 5 Ways to Shorten Your Post Titles
I am under the personal belief that post titles should be short, sweet and precise enough to get the point across without sounding like an awkward newspaper headline. Sadly not all titles follow the same belief and as a result, the layout of the website suffers. As noted on bavotasan.com "you can throw in as many keywords as you want in hopes that you might get more from Google, but I doubt that will really do anything for your site’s SEO." Long titles may not be explicitly linked to the focus of SEO, but they are still out there. What are we going to do about it? We are going to present five different tested methods of truncating...
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A Design Trend That Might Cost You Your Job
If you're involved in the world of design, whether it is by trade or business necessity, then you are probably familiar with the term "spec design", also known as "crowdsourcing". The basic principal behind crowdsourcing is working for little or no compensation. There are entire companies devoted to spec design. For example, a company called 99 Designs posts projects, otherwise known as "contests", for businesses. If you're a company in need of design services, you only need to log on to their site and post your contest. These can range from a logo design, t-shirt design or a full-blown website design. Hundreds of designers compete for...
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Tutorial: Magic Fields Duplicates
Magic Fields provides a greater amount of control and ease-of-use over Flutter when it comes to duplicate fields. Unfortunately the instructions needed to use duplication are still difficult to locate, mainly because the manual hasn't been fully translated from Spanish and posted on the Magic Fields website. It will happen soon, so hang in there. Because we have had so many questions regarding the duplication of custom Flutter fields, we wanted to demonstrate how this same feature can be achieved using Magic Fields. Setup the Custom Write Panel: Begin by creating a custom write panel page titled 'Upcoming Events'. Within this newly...
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The Geometric Unity of Sound and Design
In Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Galileo Galilei observed: "As I was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel... [I] heard the plate emit a rather strong and clear whistling sound: on looking at the plate more carefully, I noticed a long row of fine streaks [in the brass filings] parallel and equidistant from one another." With a few lifetimes' worth of notable observations, it's understandable that this gem of Galileo's brilliance is mostly overlooked. But this observation is one of the first recorded studies of a little known field now called Cymatics. Cymatics is the study of the visible patterns...
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jQuery: Animate to an Unknown, Variable Height or Width
Imagine an animated sliding box displaying a daily news feed. When the page loads, the box displays an excerpt of news then expands to display the full content. Now make sure the article is selected at random so we never know it's full length. Sounds like fun already. The unknown variable for height in this scenario can cause a few headaches using the .animate() method. You could create a separate jQuery call for each news article on your site or completely give up and alter the code each time the article changes. But wouldn't it be nice if it was automated? This tutorial describes a method to force the code to do our dirty work...
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