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Posts concerning web development and design.

Simple ABC’s Flash Cards

Posted October 3, 2011
Here are some simple flash cards made with JavaScript and jQuery. You can go to http://acpote.com/projects/flash_cards to use them, or download the project files below:

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jQuery

Photoshop Advanced Drop Shadow Actions

Posted August 14, 2011
In this post, I'll be providing four 'Actions' for Photoshop that create a couple of those great looking drop shadows we see across the web now-a-days. Along with the download, I'll provide an image displaying how each shadow looks, as well as instructions for installing and using them.

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PhotoshopTutorial

Creating A Rotating Twitter Feed Using jQuery

Posted August 7, 2011
This little tutorial will show you how to create a rotating twitter feed - it will show one tweet at a time in intervals of time that we set in a JavaScript file, from newest to oldest.

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TutorialTwitter

The Beetle: A Widescreen Desktop Background

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Select which size is best for your desktop, then click on the image. While the image is opened in the light box, right click with the mouse and select ‘Set As Desktop Background‘.

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Blank ‘wp-admin’ Page Fix

Posted August 5, 2011
Recently when I attempted to log in to my WordPress admin page at ‘http://domain.org/wp/wp-admin’, the page was blank. I had no idea what was going on. My local WordPress install was working fine, so I checked my remote files against my locals and saw nothing out of the ordinary. Then it simply hit me that [...]

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TutorialWordPress

Ufolio: An HTML5 Template

Posted July 24, 2011
uFolio is an HTML5 capable template for your projects. Features jQuery enabled widgets, content slider, gallery, twitter feed, PSD mocks, and more.

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WordPress: Display Child Category

Posted July 21, 2011
For my new WordPress theme, I wanted to display the child category for my portfolio projects. I have placed all my objects within main categories(such as Blog and Portfolio) and given them more specific categories for description within the parent. When doing a loop to display my latest portfolio posts, I wanted to display the [...]

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WordPress

How To Style The Twitter Widget For Your Web Site

Posted July 17, 2011
Twitter offers you an application that you can place on your website to allow your visitors to see your latest tweets. This is a great way to cross reference users easily from your site to your twitter or vice-versa. My issue with this app is that I found the styling given to the user quite [...]

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Twitter

Rousseau

Posted July 15, 2011
Site I created for the Genevan philosopher. Features e-books, full bibliography, biography, quotes, gallery. rousseau.acpote.com

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The New

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This is the new site design. It is a WordPress theme which utilizes the following: Plugins: vSlider SEO Ultimate Google XML Sitemaps Special Recent Posts Akismet Added functions: multiple custom excerpt sizes multiple sidebar and footer widgets defined categories to separate posts custom thumbnail sizes Google Analytics at the end of pages

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WordPress