Outlook 2007 Image Height Limitations and DPI

Published by John on November 19, 2012

About a year ago, I designed a pretty neat HTML email, which made use of a background image and worked well in all(at the time) versions of Outlook, as well as Gmail, Yahoo, Aol, Hotmail, Squirellmail, ect. I ended up doing a ton of testing to ensure everything worked correctly, using the “<v:image />” and […]

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Overloading the Magento Contact Controller

Published by John on November 10, 2012

Recently, one of my clients who uses Magento decided to to offer a new promotion and as a result needed to setup a custom form. Setting up multiple contact forms in is easy enough by copying template/contacts/form.phtml, updating it as needed, and then within the new CMS page, adding {{block type=”core/template” name=”contactForm” form_action=”/contacts/index/post” template=”contacts/new_form.phtml”}} to […]

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Fixing Twitter for WordPress : “No public Twitter messages.” Error

Published by John on October 19, 2012

Update 07/12/2013: The below will no longer work, due to changes in Twitter’s API. Please see here for more information. I have used the now apparently un-maintained Twitter for WordPress plugin on a couple of websites that I did several years ago. Recently, the clients notified me that new tweets were no longer being displayed […]

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Helping Clients Visualize the Effects of Screen Resolutions on Design

Published by John on October 17, 2012

While working with graphics designers, webdesign firms, and individual clients, I find that it can sometimes be difficult to visualize how a computer’s display resolution corresponds to an image mockup or website design. It is not uncommon to see designs that look great in PSD and in an image viewer, but don’t translate as well […]

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WordPress List Pages with The Excerpt

Published by John on September 24, 2012

For an existing WordPress theme, I wanted to display a list of child-pages, with a brief description next to each one. Using the excerpt seemed like a natural choice, as it provides an easy way to provide a small chunk of text about a post. Add Support for Page Excerpts in Your WordPress Theme By […]

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