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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)June 2nd, 2010

Adding Editable Content Areas to your WordPress Theme

Sometimes when creating a website, there is a need for small blocks of content to appear in certain areas of the page. This may be a small feature panel on the home page or just a notification in the sidebar or header. Before WordPress 3.0, there were a couple of ways of doing this. The [...]

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Nick GernertJune 8th, 2009

Building a Better WordPress Live Blog with P2

Today is the kick-off of WWDC and specifically the keynote (1p.m. eastern) where we learn about the next device we’ll be buying. To keep up we’ll be following Gizmodo’s Live Blog of the event for several reasons: Brian Lam and his team over at Gizmodo are the best damn live-bloggers out there. They’ll post it [...]

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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)February 29th, 2008

SQL Server Side Paging

I was extremely excited about GridViews and DataGrids when I first started working with .NET. The thought of having controls with built in paging and sorting just blew me away. Needless to say, this excitement was short lived. By the end of my first project in .NET, I found that this built in sorting and [...]

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Nick GernertFebruary 26th, 2008

2008 Local Addy Awards

This past Friday everyone from the CNP offices attended the local Addy Awards banquet to see what kind of awards we would walk out with this year. The Addy Awards are conducted by the American Advertising Federation and the local competition is the entry point to their national competition. Awards are given across a multitude [...]

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Nick GernertJanuary 13th, 2008

New Site: Yahoo!'s Corporate Blog, Yodel Anecdotal

Friday was a fun day spent at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA launching the updated Yodel Anecdotal. Myself along with Mike and Josh from Voce Communications got together with Nicki Dugan (Yodel’s Editor) to add some more cowbell. Things started with a meeting on the redesign back in late July 2007 and led to [...]

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Nick GernertOctober 17th, 2007

Florida Creatives Happy Hour – More Socializing (beer) with Central Florida Developers

This past Monday I attended my first Florida Creatives gathering. The group has been meeting for nearly a year now (better late than never, right?) but are very open to newcomers. It’s a great excuse to get together with some like-minded designers/develoeprs for some beer and tater tots. Interested? Learn more at the Florida Creatives [...]

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Nick GernertOctober 12th, 2007

Conference Wrapups: BarCamp Orlando, BlogOrlando and An Event Apart

The blog continues to suffer as things stay busy at the office. In the past three weeks in addition to launching a new site (full post and portfolio pages still to come) we’ve been to BarCamp Orlando, blogorlando and then finished things up with a trip out to San Francisco to this year’s final An [...]

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Nick GernertSeptember 17th, 2007

New Site: TrueDemand Software

Well, allow me to apologize for the blatant neglect of this blog over the past 3 weeks. I won’t make excuses for not having a post since August 27, but I will say that things have been a tad bit busy around here. Quite a few sites are all coming in for a landing right [...]

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