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Alternative FAQ Display with Conductor
I worked on several project recently where the owner requested a page with accordion style Frequently Asked Questions(FAQs). There are plugins that make set up and maintenance of the accordion style FAQ pretty simple. However, I experimented with an alternative solution to reduce the total overall number of plugins used on a website while I was…
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Milestones
Twenty-five hundred visits to my gym in roughly 9 years. I was pretty impressed with myself early on that icy February morning. I knew this milestone was happening so I had my iphone camera ready to capture the evidence. I had a crazy thought that a parade would kick off or I would get a…
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Evaluation Overlap
It is rewarding to find overlapping methods in seemingly unrelated professional interests. I read the Matt Report blog post How to reverse engineer your competition in 10 minutes and listened to the 50 minute companion audio interview of Nathan Wright at the gym this week. I signed up as a contestant in my Toastmasters club's annual Evaluation Contest (scheduled later this month). Matt Report's…
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Project Primer
Recently I had an energizing meeting with a business owner about her existing website. In advance of our meeting time I had provided a list of the topics I wanted to address during our meeting in addition to any of the owner's concerns and questions. My questions were not focused around the nitty-gritty details of…
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Protected: The Gathering
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Create a simple, effective event schedule page
Recently I worked on two websites that each were being used for local professional conferences. As we were planning out the content and the display of the conference details we started to use Conductor plugin. We had speakers, sponsors, and different types of sessions and needed an effective way to keep all of the details…
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Solution for a Snowy Situation
Earlier this week, several of my clients needed to make urgent updates on their WordPress powered websites to display a message about event scheduling changes due to the suspected substantial snow situation. I created a quick solution to use for this snow event and for any similar weather disturbances that may occur later this winter. Here is the summary…
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Winter Writers’ Weekend 2015
I have been invited back for a third year as part of the speakers group for Winter Writers' Weekend. Each year the Winter Writers' Weekend program has evolved. The educational sessions on Saturday has 2 tracks. I am speaking as part of both tracks: Track A: For Published Authors and Track B: For Beginning Authors. This…
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Getting your fill
Last week I accepted the "ah counter" role at our Toastmasters club meeting. While there is no intense preparation work needed to serve in the "ah counter" role, it is not an easy job either. First, I find it challenging both enjoy the essence of a member's presentation when my primary task is to count all…
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I might have a problem that you’ll understand
Recently I had 2 occasions to request support about issues related to plugins. Both of my requests were responded to promptly. The first request was to ask about simple installation instructions for a gallery plugin. It was a paid plugin so I did not have any concerns asking for help. I got an email back…
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