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Integrating Facebook Authentication with your Website

Hunter Brelsford — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:59:09 +0000

just reviewed an article on Nettuts about how you can integrate your website with the facebook authentication protocols, im not sure but i wonder if you can get a user to authenticate if you can pull down pin pointed analytical data on a per user basis… OH MY GOD

article avaiable over at Nettuts

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Sempo.org SEM institute

Hunter Brelsford — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:48:36 +0000

I was linked to this website by a friend, it contains several articles about SEO, along with a online institute teaching classes for SEO, and SEM training. The website included many related articles and im in the reading mood
The first of these

Choosing Link Partners
5 Elements of a winning SEM strategy
Maximize your paid advertisements with Google
and a two part series, Tools of the Trade, Part I , and Part II

Blackhat SEO Practices and General Problems Hey guys, I know its been awhile since I’ve published...

Site Architecture and SEO

Hunter Brelsford — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:58:00 +0000

Read a 4 article series on SEO and information related to the bing search engine and general SEO, some nice reads especially information regarding Canonicalizeing your home page.

site tweaks and tune ups with sem 101

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The Benefits of Directory Submissions

Hunter Brelsford — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:54:04 +0000

found a new website with gobs of information in SEO and directory listing information. will be reading pretty much all of these.

first is information in “The Benefits of Directory Submissions“, thought dead by some developers directory submissions are just another thing that should be added to a long list of SEO related optimizations, and link building techniques.

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Valid XHTML

Hunter Brelsford — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:27:23 +0000

Making websites has always been about the content, the delivery and the style. I mean hey what else do you need?
Well some people want function. Over the last few days I have had my nose in articles saying this is that about XHTML compliant websites, and being w3c compliant is the way to go. Though after about 6-10 hours reading and working on my own site I still don’t believe in their opinions any more, but to be fair I did learn much more then I thought I would. Just in my endeavor to get my site cssOrigins to be w3c compliant.

As some of you know I’ve moved to Taiwan since my last post, and while spending time out here I have learned that being w3c compliant is a MUST. Validation help ensure your website can be seen by web browsers of any type, including mobile users (it may not be pretty but it wont be broken).

The Firefox add-on “Developers Tool Bar ” can help you be

standards compliant
css error free
javascript error free

But if you really want to be proud of your work, you need to go that extra mile, spend that extra time to ensure that your site is w3c compliant. If your looking for the validation? Shoot on over to their website and test your pages for yourself.

If your valid you can stick one of those stickers onto your site letting people know.

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A Detailed Look at the 960 CSS Framework – Nettuts

Hunter Brelsford — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:00:46 +0000

CSS frameworks are bloated. CSS frameworks are for people who don’t know how to code. CSS is too simple to implement a framework.

If you’ve ever read a tutorial on a CSS framework, I can guarantee that many comments mimic the previous statements. My guess is that the majority of these comments are stemmed from slight ignorance. Once you take the opportunity to spend some time with 960, you’ll be amazed at how much time can potentially be saved when developing your web applications. At the very least, take ten minutes to review the framework. You can always press the delete key…though I doubt you will!

Pros

Rapidly speeds up development time.
Clean grid structure.
Not many browser inconsistencies. The ones you find can be fixed easily.
It’s not "bloated" as many people suggest. We’re talking 3-4kb here, folks! You would use many of these stylings anyways.
Build complex layouts quickly.

Cons

It’s named "960" for a reason. If you’re hoping to use a different width for you website, you might be better off choosing a different framework.
As with any "framework", you lose a bit of flexibility.
You didn’t create it. There’s something to be said for code being 100% our own.

Usage

Let’s imagine that we want to work with the "12 column" structure to create the extremely simple layout seen below. First, we must create a wrapper div that has a class of "container_12". Notice the 12.

< div id = "container" class = "container_12" >
…content goes here
div >


...content goes here

Specifying an id here isn’t required by any means. However, I find that it helps me to remember exactly what the div is. One of the gripes against 960 is that the classes do nothing to define what the element is. Simply including an id fixes that issue.

Grids

Now we want to create a simple header and two column structure. When first getting started, it’s helpful to examine the demo to choose how wide a grid you should use.

I’m going to choose a header width of "940px" (+ 20px margins = 960), a sidebar width of "220px", and a main content width of "700px".

You must assign a class to each div. Naming conventions require that that the class name begins with "grid_" and ends with the number of columns needed. In our case, we’ll use "grid_12′, "grid_3" and "grid_9", respectively.

< div id = "container" class = "container_12" >
< div id = "header" class = "grid_12" >
content goes here
div >
< div id = "sidebar" class = "grid_3" >
content goes here
div >
< div id = "mainContent" class = "grid_9" >
content goes here
div >
div >


  
    content goes here
  

  
    content goes here
  

  
    content goes here

The only additional styling that I’ve added is background colors and a minimum width for each div to simulate an actual website full of text. I won’t go over that here; mostly because they should be removed. They’re only used here to demonstrate the structure.

Without worrying about margins, floats, or IE hacks, we’re able to create a layout extremely fast. The true power of 960 is demonstrated when building complex newspaper-like layouts.

via A Detailed Look at the 960 CSS Framework – Nettuts+ .

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Automatically Retrieve The First Image From Posts On Your Home Page

Hunter Brelsford — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:21:56 +0000

I found this particularly interesting, because I use a similar method to list images on the home page of my site as well. over the weekend if time allows I’ll be reviewing and adjusting my code. Hopefully this method will allow me to more easily display my post pictures where I need them. Thank you Smashing Magazine for posting.

Automatically Retrieve The First Image From Posts On Your Home Page

The problem . Many WordPress users use custom fields to display a thumbnail on their blog home page. Of course, this is a nice solution, but how about automatically retrieving the first image from a post and using it as a thumbnail?

The solution . This hack is quite easy to implement:

Open the functions.php file in your theme.
Paste this code in. Don’t forget to specify a default image on line 10 in case a post of yours does not have an image.function catch_that_image {
global $post, $posts;
$first_img = ”;
ob_start;
ob_end_clean;
$output = preg_match_all’//i’, $post->post_content, $matches;
$first_img = $matches [1] [0];
ifempty$first_img{ //Defines a default image
$first_img = "/images/default.jpg";
}
return $first_img;
Save the functions.php file.
On your blog home page index.php, call the function this way to get the URL of the first image from the post:

echo catch_that_image() ?>

Code explanation . The function uses the global variable $post to parse the post’s content with a regular expression. If an image is found, its URL is returned by the function. If not, the default image URL is returned.

via 10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine .

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84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources | Grace Smith

Hunter Brelsford — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:52:03 +0000

Simply Amazing css resources from Grace Smith, his site can be found here

Feast your eyes over this collection of super useful CSS resources

via 84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources | Hi, I’m Grace Smith .

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