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for: ‘July, 2009’

Abduzeedo.com

Abduzeedo is one of the first websites I go to for inspiration. A design aggregator, the quanitity of posts is phenomenal. The variety of inspiration is outstanding. And the quality of work displayed is second to none. A great place to find inspiration on the web.

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WordPress Popularity

I recently read an article over on writerspace.net, entitled Wordpress.com Nearing Popularity Landmark The article speaks to a simple numbers game relative to wordpress’ popularity on the web. Fascinating enough, it is predicted that wordpress will top 10 million blogs by the end of the year.

As a developer, I would just like to add a few more reasons why wordpress is the dominating force in the blogosphere.

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jQuery Plugin: Cycle

At this point, jQuery is nothing new in the web development world. AJAX has taken the community by storm, and I can’t stop shouting from the highest mountain tops, the benefits of an AJAX supported website. Asynchronous javascript is a foundation of web 2.0, and a big part of my development cycle.

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Top 20 Balboa Songs Of All Time

An 11 year study of balboa music has just concluded and the top 20 balboa songs of all time has been determined. The study, conducted by the Music department at MIT in conjunction with the BioInformatics group at Oxford University, has been a long time coming. For years, the debates have raged on. Finally, we can put an end to all the bloodshed.

And you beleive that non-sense, I have some beach front property in Kansas I want to sell you.

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Designing A Logo

Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite resouces on the web. If you are unfamiliar with this site, it serves two purposes. One, it provides unique content about current trends in web design, techniques and tips for blog development and tutorials on anything from photoshop to illustrator and wordpress (among others).

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Camp Hollywood 2009

Camp Hollywood and the National Jitterbug Championships is right around the corner; July 30 – Aug 2. For me it has been 11 years of Camp Hollywood, and I could not be more excited. Camp Hollywood is one of those events that you cannot miss. Hundreds of swing dancers falling upon Los Angeles showcasing the true spirit of swing dancing.

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Impact Of Color

How much impact does the color of a website really have?

I will spend hours to days developing an entire web solution for a client, and through this process, colors might change. Certain elements require stronger impact, the client doesn’t like the background (which means you need to change everything), or I am just not happy with the color choices I made in the beginning. But, what is the real impact of the color of a website?

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For Attribute Used With Label Tags

There are times that I feel like I am on the cutting edge of development. Web 2.0 and AJAX trickery gives me that feeling all the time. Then there are times where I ask myself, “Why didn’t I know about this before?” That’s how I feel about the for attribute for the

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ABW 2009, Album of the Weekend

This one album might have been played more than any single artist at All Balboa Weekend, 2009; even Benny Goodman!

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