I just finished up a project that involved an impromptu introduction to WordPress MU – THE mother of all blog-related projects for Absolute (so far). In about one month, we set up 27 blog sites (one of which is a site to rule them all), developed 3 unique themes (with … read more
Today I found a nifty WordPress plugin that gently reminds new visitors to your blog to subscribe to your RSS feed. WP Greet Box shows up when visitors view a post, and even customizes the experience based on where the user arrived from (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.). You’ll probably notice … read more
So, how do you get your readers to explore the rest of your blog posts? Maybe you can offer them some more information about the post they’re on, as well as some convenient links to the post(s) immediately following or preceding the post they’re looking at. The magic code, which … read more
Behold… a screenshot.
That’s our new site, live and ready for action. After expanding our business to the point where we needed a new office, we caught a bit of the renovation bug. The next thing you know, our office, promotional materials and even our website got a huge makeover. … read more
You know those wallet cards you get with your cell phone service that’s a handy reminder of some of the functions you can perform on your phone to do things like check your account balance, voicemail, etc.?
In the future, I hope cell phone companies just incorporate that into their software … read more
WordPress is a beast that I love to hate to love. When it works, it works very well, which is 99% of the time. But when it doesn’t, well, then I can usually plan on spending at least 4-6 hours researching why it’s not, and then (most of the time) … read more
A recent example of a debugging episode with IE6 -
We recently discovered that a form on a certain website had mysteriously stopped working in IE7 and Firefox (2 or 3, I don’t know which version) on a PC. More specifically, something was preventing the user from clicking on the form … read more
I ran across a problem with the WordPress 2.5 plugin EventCalendar where the calendar worked fine, but when you click on a date in the calendar to view the Event post, it would return a Not Found error page. The fix for this is an unofficial patch. Basically two files … read more
Absolute Marketing Group is anxiously awaiting the arrival of their newest team member. Cas Johnson’s baby is due to arrive ANY day now, and we thought we’d get you in on the fun by holding a Contest. Just send us an email with your guess on baby’s birth Weight and … read more
After changing a WP blog to display a static home page, I was trying to find a way to also display Posts – the way they normally displayed on a default install – and make a link to that page. What I found instead was a nice, dynamic way to … read more
On a recent site design, I ran across a rare CSS bug in IE 6 & 7. This site has a great demo of what goes wrong (view the buggy pages in IE 6 or 7 to see what I mean), and a very easy hack/fix.
IE6 resize bug position: relative … read more
There was a reference in the Fargo Forum to our ADDY award wins -
Groups receive advertising awards
The Forum
Published Saturday, March 15, 2008
Absolute Marketing Group, Moorhead, was recently awarded seven Gold and three Silver ADDY awards by the Advertising Federation of Fargo-Moorhead.
Best of Show honors went to Publication Services of America, … read more
For some reason, the hacked code I had in place to make Gravatars show up in Posts and Comments mysteriously broke over the weekend, so after a bit of troubleshooting (and an attempt to guesstimate the issue that turned into a neat feature that makes the author’s email address link … read more
Well, that depends. Does your email subject line length rival some Shakespearean lines, or is it concise and to the point? Does it frequently include the words Reminder, Help, Percent Off or FREE? For that matter, IS IT WRITTEN ALL IN CAPS? According to several best practices studies done on … read more
The latest issue of The ‘Truth is out -
Volume 2, Issue 5 – Why Blog? – Need a low-cost Web presence? You might want to consider a blog.
