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Thievery

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  • February 20th, 2008
  • BY Brian
  • COMMENTS 10

Yesterday I got an email from Dale over at WPThemez linking me to a forum. I clicked it, and to my surprise found someone illegally reselling my theme. I’m not going to link to the person because that would just help them.
After I found this forum however, I started emailing a few people I [...]

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Designing A Sleek, Transparent Navigation

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  • February 6th, 2008
  • BY Brian
  • COMMENTS 6

This tutorial is a very simple, easy to follow guide to creating a sleek, shiny, and transparent navigation bar. This tutorial will work mainly with the custom shape tool, gradients, and blending options.
Difficulty:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Estimated Time:
3-4 minutes
Start off with a 500px by 500px blank canvas. For this [...]

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Your Visitors Have A.D.D. - Six Steps To Keep Them Focused

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  • January 13th, 2008
  • BY Brian
  • COMMENTS 8

The Problem
A lot of articles lately have been writing about how social media traffic from sites like Digg and Stumble is worthless. I guess I can’t whole-heartedly disagree, but I want to know why! I have the answer - social media users have A.D.D!
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The reason social media traffic gets such a bad [...]

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Reaching Out - Don’t Wait For Them To Come To You

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  • December 30th, 2007
  • BY Brian
  • COMMENTS 2

Photo from ChatInTheHat

Inner Failure
I’ve seen it all too often - people who have amazing websites, blogs, designs, articles, etc., but they just aren’t getting the recognition they deserve. Some of this may not be their fault - after all they can’t make people link to them or submit their posts to social media sites. [...]

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Surefire Way To Get More Subscribers

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  • December 21st, 2007
  • BY Brian
  • COMMENTS 6

What
We’ve all read about different advertising, marketing, and writing techniques to increase your subscriber count. But I think that there is one thing missing that should not be neglected - RSS positioning. Where you put your RSS icons and information makes a load of difference when it comes to getting people to subscribe. How do [...]

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