Does Your Charity Need to Accept Monthly Recurring Donations?

March 11, 2010

We recently assisted our sister company, JBS Partners with the implementation of recurring subscription payment donations for a charitable site with the donor having the option of selecting from a menu of donation amounts. Oddly, PayPal does not offer variable subscription prices as an option on subscribe buttons. No worries, we crafted a [...]

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Facebook Snowball Fight?

February 17, 2010

This is probably the funniest story I have seen lately* — Philly city leaders blaming Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a snowball fight. They suggest suing Facebook, et. al., because the social media was used to organize the group that eventually is alleged to have gotten out of hand.
Should Facebook, et. al., be suing [...]

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Less CSS is More

February 9, 2010

One of the nicest things I have seen lately … use a variable at the top of your css and then when you need to change all references to it, just change it at the top.
I cannot tell you how many times a client will change all link colors five times during a project and [...]

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404 Pages – Take the Ohhh Out of 404

January 4, 2010

Have you considered your 404 page design and functionality? Clients often appreciate when we add a little zing and extra functionality to 404 pages. If you would like some help on yours, feel free to give us a holler.
Before we get into the design and functionality, let’s review what a 404 page actually is:
In [...]

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Membership Directory Powered By Wordpress

December 27, 2009

Wanted: Membership Directory via WordPress!
Why: Thought I would take a few minutes this morning and follow a project I have been putting off since August — they best kind of project to put off, one you aren’t getting paid for. I have an organization that is non-profit in nature and I am on the [...]

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Google Wave: Problems and Immediate Solutions

December 12, 2009

Like so many of you I watched the I/O 2009 presentation on youtube (won’t bother with the link). Compared to so many screencasts these days, you had to imagine half of the time what the text was, but you could definitely see the possibilities. So I fired up my own Wave Account and [...]

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Google Wave Apps – Good, Bad and Trouble

December 11, 2009

Do you know a good Google Wave Application? Tell me please.
The Good:
Here is the best time I got today:
DavidJ:
IFRAME Gadget allows embedding of any web page inside a wave.
Link for IFRAME Gadget is http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml
Installation of IFRAME Gadget is available at http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe-ext.xml
Iframe installation addy works with the extension installer that you can install with your [...]

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Google Wave, to Surf or Not to Surf … that is the question

December 7, 2009

Sitting around the campfire drinking a cup of coffee from the blackened pot the other night Jim and I were discussing the most recent means of on-line communication. Frankly, some of it puzzles me. The topic soon shifted to wave.google.com
I think I get a lot of things. For example I was an early [...]

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New Year Website Date Fixes

December 4, 2009

The end of 2009 is approaching and the New Year will bring in 2010.
Is your website or blog ready for 2010?
New Year Maintenance

The first thing you should be ready to do is update copyright dates to reflect 2010.
Review web forms and remove 2009 and add 2010 and future years to the end of your drop [...]

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How to Add Pull Quotes

November 25, 2009

That is one of the most frequent questions we get here at Blog Wranglers — how do you emphasize a small bit of information in a visually appealing way inside your blog or web pages. Pull quotes have been used in the print media for many years. Essentially you lift some content out [...]

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