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MomJobSeeker.com launched!

Mom Job Seeker prepares mothers re-entering the workplace after their kids have grown up a bit. April Stensgard, owner, contacted Katz Web Design with the goal of having a business blog that would facilitate online event registration. Faced with this task, I took WordPress, added the eShop plugin, and Event Calendar and Event Manager (now defunct) and […]

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Constant Contact WordPress Widget – Add a Newsletter Signup Form to your Sidebar

This widget adds a Constant Contact signup form to your blog’s sidebar without touching code. Download the Widget Includes options for Title, Button Text, Tag Wrapper, Form ID Code, and Intro Paragraph, show or hide CC link, Safe Subscribe link, and template options. New: add a form in your page or post by writing [constantcontact] […]

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Tutorial

How to uninstall Adobe Apollo

Adobe Apollo was the code name for Adobe AIR, which has since taken its place. I’ve been trying to update my Twhirl application, but I was getting a message that I couldn’t update it because it was not made for that version of Adobe Apollo. Well no kidding, it was made for AIR! I tried uninstalling […]

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Code

How to turn off captions in WordPress 2.6

Turn off da captions, turn off da funk! I’ve found that many who found my previous article about removing caption from the All In One SEO Pack are interested in disabling the WordPress 2.6 captions altogether. This is very simple to do. Futureproof way to disable captions From Otto: Add this to your theme’s functions.php file: […]

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Code

Remove [caption] shortcode from All in One SEO Pack in WordPress 2.6

Starting in WordPress 2.6, they’ve added captions to images that are automatically generated and use the Shortcode API to make it happen.  One side effect is that All in One SEO Pack isn’t set up to strip the caption from the automatically generated META tags, so you may end up with in your description. Thanks to […]

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Constant Contact

Receive Email Updates from Constant Contact Surveys: Feature Request

Update: Constant Contact has implemented this feature. Get notified when you receive new survey responses I use the CC Survey feature to send out web design questionnaires to potential clients. As such, I keep a survey open and receive responses sporadically. Currently, there’s no way to be notified by Constant Contact when my survey receives […]

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Domains

New Yahoo! domain prices — can they be serious?

Might as well say “This is Yahoo calling…and we need your money.” I just got an email from Yahoo! Domains (where I registered madeindenver.com) that says the following: Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!’s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year. Yahoo is going to charge $34.95 a year for domains, up from $9.95. This […]

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KWS

Denver web hosting — we're making the switch to reselling

A win-win solution: we’ll resell great hosting, you’ll pay less Katz Web Design will resell hosting to our clients for a discounted price; $2.99 rather than $4.99, for example. The great part? Our clients will pay less for better services, and we get a monthly payment, rather than a one-time commission. Win-win. There are many web […]

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SEO

Denver SEO informative website launched: DenverSEO.info

I am pleased to introduce DenverSEO.info, a web page that goes over the basics of search engine optimization: what is SEO, how can you do SEO yourself, and Denver-specific SEO.  Many of Katz Web Design‘s clients are unclear as to what search engine optimization is, so I hope this page gets them started with their […]

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Creating a Real Estate Website in WordPress — Part 2

If you find this article helpful, please share it, or Digg it! In Part 1 of Building a real estate website in WordPress, you learned about a plugin called FreshPost that we used to set up the basic structure of your real estate website.  Using this article, you will be able to display a single listing page […]

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SEO

Denver Performance-Based SEO plans

Only pay for great optimization results One of Katz Web Design’s Denver web design clients wanted an option for performance-based SEO (Search Engine Optimization), rather than a monthly set price, so I created a package. Here’s the gist of our SEO package: Pay only $5.00 an hour for optimization Targeted keywords are given a value […]

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CSS

Google's Sprite Image is a Thing of Beauty

Google Sprite changes over time: If you want to know more about CSS sprites and how to put them together, feast your eyes on Google’s: Then: Now: Here’s the history of Google’s PNG sprite image http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo2.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo3.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo4.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo5.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo6.png http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo7.png http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo8.png http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo9.png March 25, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo10.png April 1, 2010 – http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo11.png April […]

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Blogging SEO

This blog has great PageRank!

So I’ve been working on creating great content for everyone out there, which happens to include Google.  Well, it turns out that the Denver Web Design & Denver SEO Blog has been given a PageRank (their system of measuring the quality of a website) of 5/10…which is great. I enjoy blogging for many reasons other than SEO, […]

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Web Design Coupon — Up to $300 off a new website!

Katz Web Design is was offering up to $300.00 in discounts on all new web design projects. From June 2 to August 2 2008, we want to thank you for your feedback — save up to $300.00 on your website.  After you have your new website, just write a review of your experience with KWD, […]

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Tutorial

Disable Styles and Javascript in Safari with Keyboard Shortcuts – How To

Now Safari’s just as cool as Firefox If you’re a web developer on the Mac, you may be sick of everyone talking about Firefox Addons that do everything but wipe your ass. True, Firefox is a great browser that is very expandable, but I love Safari, and I want to do as much web development […]

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SEO

Duplicate Content over Multiple Domains – SEO Issues?

I recently purchased some domains for SEO, and I wanted to do some research about best practices for using multiple domains on the same content. The good news?  Google does not punish duplicate content; they just sort it out themselves.

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KWS SEO

Domain Buying for Denver SEO

Image by annaOMline Gettin’ Me Some Domains for Search Engine Optimization Since Katz Web Design is going to be more active in Denver search engine optimization, I finally registered some domain names that I’ve been eyeing. Since domains are important for S.E.O. and KWD doesn’t have any SEO domain names, it was a ripe time to […]

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Tableless, accessible, nearly validating osCommerce — Rewriting the beast

osCommerce accessibility stinks osCommerce default installation is a huge mess for accessibility. Every piece of code that the platform spits out has endless tables and poorly coded HTML — finding your way through the code is like trying to clear brush. The simple solution to osCommerce accessibility is to install the Simple Template System and put […]

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Web Design Portfolio

Denver Real Estate Website – Blue Sky Development Group

In anticipation of a magazine ad in Denver magazine 5280, we launched two static web pages featuring properties. 2250 South Marion Street 2372 South Humboldt Street These websites are no longer active. These pages are a preview to the WordPress real estate website I’ve been working on.  The complete site will be coming soon, including […]

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Code WordPress

Get medium image size in WordPress

This is for everyone who’s been trying to find out how to get the medium image size of a post attachment in WordPress: You’ve got to send the function the ID you’re trying to get the medium images for. $medium = wp_get_attachment_image_src($picture->ID, ‘medium’, false); $med_url = $medium[0]; $med_width = $medium[1]; $med_height = $medium[2]; There are […]