Monthly Archives: June 2009

An interesting (?) implementation of WordPress as a CMS

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Mike

This past weekend (and early this week) I’ve been working on a small micro site for a client who needed something ready to go ASAP. In an effort to conserve time, we decided to go a CMS route so that … Continue reading →

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“If I had a million dollars … I wouldn’t buy Adobe Fireworks CS4”

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Mike

When it comes to Photoshop, I admit, I’m a complete fool. I know the absolute bare minimum – just enough to get by. I can take a sweet design by one of our talented creative guys here at iStudio and … Continue reading →

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CSS length units you’ve never used

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Mike

I’ve been doing CSS layouts for quite some time now and it is safe to say that I’ve never used most of the length units that are available with the CSS 2.1 specification. If you’re like me, you’ve used pixels … Continue reading →

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Launch of Sitefinity CMS Web site – Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Mike

This past week a Sitefinity CMS project I was involved in for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) was launched to the public. My role in the operation was the template build (HTML) and styling (CSS). Integration into Sitefinity was … Continue reading →

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Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Mike

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages. SHARETHIS … Continue reading →

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