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The anatomy of a Link

August 10th, 2009

In the SEO world a link is what makes the world go round. A web site is a collection of sites all hyper linked together and the internet is made possible due to sites linking to each other. With Googles search engine becoming Read more…

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Upgrading to wordpress 2.7

January 4th, 2009

I have just been updating blogs to wordpress 2.7 and on doing so hit up against this error:

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in …/functions.php on line …

In an effort to save someone else the mad rush to find out how to fix this I thought it would be worth linking to where I found the solution. So, click here to fix the error >>

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Easy photo sharpening

November 25th, 2008

Being the only designer geek in a family full of programmers I get called on for anything IT that involves images or Photoshop. Recently I have been asked several times how to sharpen a photo well and so that the end result isn’t blocky nor hazy. Read more…

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Displaying php in a WordPress page

June 25th, 2008

I spent a few hours this morning updating and upgrading a clients blog. Thinking it would be nice to add in a pull of their images from Flickr I dutifully downloaded a plugin from lukeh.com. After installing the plugin I decided to add it to a page within the page of the website design rather than the sidebar. Read more…

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Integration with PHPBB3 Forum System

April 3rd, 2008

The latest incarnation of the PHPBB forum system has been released for a short time now. Unfortunately there is still little in the way of an API for manipulating the user base of the forum system to allow it to synch with an external application.

To this end, we produced a small class that takes care of pushing manipulations to the PHPBB3 forum system. Read more…

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Peeled sticker effect in photoshop

March 23rd, 2008

1) Open Photoshop and go to File – New to create a new document. I set mine to be 200px x 200px and 72dpi with a white background.

2) Select the Ellipse tool (fig 1) to draw a circle shape (fig 2) Read more…

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