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Blogwell: Web Development
jan 1

Multiple Wimpy buttons playing one at a time.

by Tyler M

Wimpy buttons are a great way to embed mp3s into your web page.

Until you have more than one on that single page. Then you end up with a cacophony of sounds as your user clicks multiple songs/sounds in a row as they play over eachother simultaneously. Horrible.

Even more horrible is More...

Posted: April 8, 2010
jan 1

Introducing “Socialee”

by Tyler M


We are super pumped to introduce Socialee (formerly known as RPXee - an ill-fated moniker).

Socialee will allow you and your clients to grow the membership base by accepting registrations with Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Gmail, MySpace, OpenID, LinkedIn and many more.

Socialee will More...

Posted: February 3, 2010
jan 1

Embedding Flash With Wmode Transparent - The Real Deal

by Liz L.

Have you ever embedded a flash movie in the header of your web site, gone home happy thinking all was good in the world, and then woken up in a cold sweat because someone, somewhere, clicked to view an ibox on your site and - gasp! - the flash header appeared above the overlay?! More...

Posted: October 30, 2009
jan 1

Very Big ExpressionEngine Sites

by Tyler M

Hop Studios has done a great service for us ExpressionEngine folk - they’ve published a list of the largest 15 sites using EE.

Wait a sec, what’s “large” anyway? Well, they’ve defined it by:

  • number of unique visitors and pages / month
  • number of entries and comments
  • number of members More...
Posted: October 27, 2009
jan 1

Separate Domain Registrars and Hosts

by Tyler M

Several of our clients are at the level of site traffic, sophistication and technical know-how to require the most common type of hosting available: shared Web site hosting. That means they don’t see more than a few hundred site visitors per day and it means they don’t have internal IT More...

Posted: October 26, 2009
jan 1

No follow me? Thoughts on rel=“nofollow”

by Tyler M

Every blog seems to have implemented the ol’ rel=“nofollow” on their comments’ names elements by now. What that means is that the old Web marketing suggestion – post lots of comments around the Web using strategic keywords for your name – doesn’t do anything anymore. For someone in More...

Posted: October 22, 2009