There’s no doubt about it, Constant Contact is a huge player in e-mail marketing. They have been around since 1998 and are practically a genericized trademark for e-mail marketing campaigns.
Apples to Peaches
I’ve been down in Atlanta for over a month and a half now. The warm weather is really nice and being so close to my fiancée is a wonderful change. I’m almost completely done with all the change-of-address paperwork, which I’m really excited about.
Quick and Powerful Wordpress Themes
There’s no denying that Wordpress is a great blogging solution; it’s free, easily extensible, and has great community support. But creating your own themes from scratch can be time-consuming and repetitive. There’s no need to re-invent the wheel, unless it can’t serve the desired purpose. Read More
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Developing on a Grid
Several months ago I came across the 960 grid system and became very intrigued. The package of Cascading Style Sheet files promises to enable rapid development of websites while providing an easy-to-use grid structure.
Getting a Date with PHP & MySQL
Recently I was working on an event management project in PHP & MySQL which made me realize that there must be a good solution for interacting with dates and times; a solution that doesn’t rely on PHP’s date format being stored as character data in MySQL, and doesn’t require the parsing out of MySQL’s DATETIME format in PHP. Both PHP and MySQL have built-in functions for dealing with dates; it seems silly to have to give up one set of functionality for the other.
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The Best Buy
I work at a local Best Buy now. It’s kind of funny because I started watching the TV show Chuck last year in college, and I loved it. Who knew after graduation I might be working at the “Buy More” and being taught to loathe “Large Mart”.
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Google Web Font Compilation for Download
Google recently released their font API and font directory in an effort to bring more fonts to a wide range of modern browsers. This is great news for web designers and developers tired of using the same old fonts. There are other ways to serve non-web fonts in your sites, such as sIFR, Cufon, and TypeKit, but now Google is making it even more simple and, best of all, free.
The current selection of fonts is limited, but a welcome enhancement to the web designer’s usual choices. I particularly enjoy Molengo and Droid Sans. The only thing lacking from Google’s new system of web font deployment are the openly licensed fonts for download. If you are in the habit of designing pages in Photoshop and then developing them in your browser you will want to have these fonts on your system. So I took the time to download all of the fonts as they were served up by the Google font API (so that they are the exact version that is being sent to your potential viewers). I organized and gathered all the licenses for each font and packaged them together into this zip file.
So go ahead and make the web a more beautiful place!