July 11th, 2009
While working on a client’s site today, I had my first encounter with a nasty little hack that WordPress can be vulnerable to – hidden spam links injected into your site’s content.
Because the links are hidden, the only way to discover them is if you search for them or happen to come across them as you edit your posts through the HTML …
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View / Add CommentsMay 27th, 2009
A couple weeks back I released BlogStarter, a free WordPress theme, actually two themes in one created as a starting point for easily building custom WordPress themes.
After putting it to the test with my last couple WordPress sites, I was able to make a few quick improvements.
You can find all the details about the BlogStarter theme for WordPress developers. Or just get the newest version here:
DOWNLOAD Both Themes (.zip)
Changes:
Version 1.1 (released 5/27/09):
Fixed and cleaned up some CSS
Added a theme settings page to the admin area (easily taken out or edited …
TAGS:Free WordPress Themes . web design resources . WordPress . WordPress Themes . WPJumpStart
Categories: Blog, WordPress Themes.
View / Add CommentsMay 4th, 2009
I recently worked with Horizon Intertainment as 1st AD (First Assistant Director) on the another installment in the ‘Straight Talk’ series of educational videos. The first episode was shot last August and covered the topic of STD education and prevention. The latest one is about Teen Pregnancy. These are difficult subjects to cover, requiring that a great deal of factual information comes across without being seen as a joke by a teenage audience and without losing their interest by being too dry.
Director Jared Bentley and the producers at Horizon …
TAGS:1st ad . production . straight talk
View / Add CommentsApril 2nd, 2009
So I have been using this web app called Batchbook CRM for almost two months now. They let you sort and tag all your contacts with a ton of great features that make keeping on top of your networking so much easier. I won’t go into all the details of how it works here, but one of the things that was holding me back from completely loving it was that they don’t let you send an email from directly within the app. They have ‘mailto’ links that open your email application. The problem for me is …
TAGS:app reviews . articles about me . crm . Resources . tips . web apps
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View / Add CommentsFebruary 14th, 2009
Just a quick screenshot for now. I’m off to Vegas for the WPPI convention, where we are introducing abrand new JulesCafe.com.
TAGS:clients . custom web design . html . php . web clients . web design . WordPress
Categories: Blog, Web Design.
View / Add CommentsFebruary 1st, 2009
In a post last week, PIFPhoto.com talked about Google’s Keyword tool, one of the great free tools made available by Google for free to help analyze, enhance and promote your website. I left a comment mentioning a site called grader.com, which offers a number of great free tools to analyze your site’s visibility to the search engines. It even offers suggestions for how to improve your site specifically. Lindsay at PIF, asked if I would be interested in writing a guest blogger article going into further detail on using the Website Grader. I was happy …
TAGS:products I endorse . Resources . SEO . tips . web apps
Categories: Blog, How To, SEO.
View / Add CommentsJanuary 29th, 2009
After finding and commenting on this post from pifphoto.com, I was contacted by Lindsay from PIF (Pay it Forward) and asked to do a follow up as a guest blogger. I had mentioned a site that I have been using called website.grader.com which does a great job of analyzing your site and grading it’s SEO performance on factors like keywords, incoming links, whether or not you are listed in some of the major search and listing sites. It works as a great starting point for assessing your site’s visibility.
You can read my …
TAGS:guest blog posts . SEO . writing
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View / Add CommentsJanuary 29th, 2009
Sauce Creative Group does some great design work for some major brands, including a lot of recent work with Redbull. So when they asked me to help turn their design into a Wordpress site, it was a great opportunity for me – not to mention a chance to just build a site and not worry about the design process myself.
The biggest job I had on this was creating the fading slideshow at the top of every page. I found a sample site that had something similar, but i had to tweak the code to be more flexible. Now …
TAGS:clients . web clients . web design . WordPress
Categories: Blog, Featured, Web Design.
View / Add CommentsDecember 29th, 2008
Yesterday, I got the chance to be the wedding videographer for Kristen and Scott at the Newport Beach Marriot.
What made the day especially great for me was that I shot along side an amazing photographer, Jules Bianchi. You can see her blog post with some of her highlights from the shoot here.
Jules brother, Jeffrey came along to operate my second camera and Tom Benedek shot some 8mm film that I can’t wait to see and incorporate into the edit.
The ceremony ended with an amazing sunset, so I put together a quick teaser with some …
TAGS:clients . director . editor . videographer . Wedding Videos
Categories: Blog, Featured, Video, Wedding Videos.
View / Add CommentsDecember 10th, 2008
Last night I attended an event for the APA (Advertising Photographers of America), with photographer Jules Bianchi. I found it all very interesting, however. New technologies are blurring the line between still and motion cameras and this was the major topic of the night.
The featured speaker was Vincent Laforet, a renowned photographer for the NY Times, famous for his amazing aerial photography. Most recently, he has garnered a lot of attention for ‘Reverie’ – the short film he made after getting his hands on a prototype of the just released Canon 5d Mark II, …
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