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Cas Johnson, Lead Web Developer

Cas Johnson is the Lead Web Developer at Absolute Marketing Group in Moorhead, Minnesota. She volunteers her time for the FMVA, enjoys being a wife and mom, and attempts to keep edible plants alive through the short Northern summer.




Post Date Calendar Style for WordPress Thematic Child Theme

5
Aug
10

Working with the Thematic framework for WordPress can be really fun, especially when you have the freedom to use filters on the meta information for posts to style your post date to look like a calendar.

What it looks like originally:

The original, unstyled post with the date and author showing … read more



The Right Way to setup a Facebook Fan Page – in 3 Easy Steps

22
Apr
10

As many people have unfortunately found out, there’s a wrong way to setup a Facebook Fan Page for your business.

Case in point:

Your business partner uses their personal Facebook Profile to setup a Fan Page for your business. They’re the Creator of that Fan Page, and can grant your Facebook Profile … read more



Coming to a Mac near you – Internet Explorer 9

1
Apr
10

Insiders within Microsoft reveal Internet Explorer 9 for Mac

The announcement of Internet Explorer 9 by Microsoft has many users excited about the newest IE experience, but since Microsoft discontinued support for Macintosh computers with version 5.5, Mac users have been left out in the cold. Until now.

An inside source at … read more



Why Blog?

30
Mar
10

Need a low-cost Web presence? You might want to consider a blog.

Blog. It’s an Internet buzzword/phenomenon. Google the word “blog” and you’ll get over two billion results returned. Everyone’s talking about them, and it seems everyone’s got one. But what good are they to your small business or organization? You … read more



Absolute Marketing Group Wins 19 ADDY Awards at Statewide Competition

18
Mar
10

Absolute Marketing Group won 19 total awards at the 2009 ADDY awards Friday, February 26th. The four-year-old firm walked away with 7 gold awards, 11 silver awards and a Judge’s Choice Award. The number of gold awards and total awards was the second most awarded to a company in the … read more



Three Common Web Site Text Mistakes

6
Jan
10

When your average Joe visits your store or your organization, you want their experience to be positively fabulous. If they come looking for the solution to a problem, you want to deliver with speed and efficiency so that they’ll have a good perception of you and your brand and will … read more



51 Essential WordPress Plugins (and bonus functions!)

22
Dec
09

After working with WordPress for several years and combing through countless “top 10″ WordPress plugin blog posts for plugins that A. Work well and B. Are updated regularly and don’t break with core upgrades (often), I’ve come up with my own cache of WordPress plugins I go back to on … read more



Blame it on the Egg Nog

18
Dec
09

Happy Holidays from Absolute Marketing Group.

http://www.absolutemg.com/eggnog



10 Ways to Ensure your Online Security this Holiday Shopping Season + Bonus Tips!

25
Nov
09

There are less than 30 days left in the Holiday Shopping season before Christmas – Are you ready? Or are you joining the millions of people staying in this weekend for the busiest online shopping days of the year?

Whether you’re staying at home to shop from the convenience of your … read more



Should we do this? Part 3

26
Oct
09

In Parts one and two of this series, I addressed some important questions about creating or updating your online marketing efforts. The last question you should ask yourself before implementing a new or improved feature of your online marketing or website strategy is “Is this feature or anything associated with … read more



Should we do this? Part 2

23
Oct
09

In the first part of this series, I talked in depth about usability and putting your customers first when thinking about your online marketing efforts. In Part 2, I’ll explain the second question you should ask yourself – “Is the time needed to develop, implement and maintain the feature justifiable?”

There … read more



Should we do this?

22
Sep
09

Several months ago, Luke posted an article titled, “Is This Possible?” talking about the limitless capabilities of the Internet. I’d like to take this idea one step further. The real question isn’t “Can we do this?” but “Should we do this?

When it comes to website design and function, there are … read more



Five sure-fire ways to annoy site visitors

22
Sep
09

Here are five things you ‘could’ do on your site, but they are five things you shouldn’t.

Put music on your site that plays automatically – Have you even been at a department store and picked up an item that started playing music? People turn and stare and no … read more



Who’s Talking About Me? Tools to Monitor Your Brand and Reputation Online

26
Aug
09

So you’ve jumped into Social Media and are Tweeting, Following and Friending like a Pro. Great. You’re also commenting intelligently on blogs and sending out RT Luv on a regular basis. Fabulous. So – who’s talking about YOU, and what are they saying?

If you’re logging directly into Facebook and Twitter, … read more



Paging and Custom WordPress Loops

25
Aug
09

The broken pagination at the bottom of the blog pages has been resolved – we are using a custom loop to display posts, and this breaks the WordPress default pagination, therefore one must use a workaround to make it work again.

I also installed a plugin called WP-PageNavi which does a … read more



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