Archive for the 'How To' Category

Creating Favorite Icons with a Transparent Background Using Photoshop

Monday, December 17th, 2007

If you haven’t noticed or cleared your Internet cache in a while, I have been working on some new logo concepts for the site.  Anyway, after doing so I had to change the favorite icon too.  I set out on my journey to find the perfect tutorial for creating favorite icons with transparent backgrounds.  [...]

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  • Sphinn
  • Mixx
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Adding a Favorite Icon To Your Site, The How To

Friday, December 14th, 2007

A favorite icon gives you branding strength and more importantly something your members can recognize in a long list of favorites.  It is pretty much straight forward 101 stuff, but I am going to do my best to break it down into simple steps for any management platform.
(Gathering thoughts into sentences….Almost there)

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Add a Working Mixx Bookmark Icon to the Blogger/Blogspot Platform : Classic or Custom Templates

Friday, December 7th, 2007

It literally took me about 2 hours to figure out the syntax for blogspot.  I have no idea how people put up with that compared to a self-hosted blog, sigh.  Anyway upon request, here are the steps to adding a Mixx Icon that works properly for the old and new Blogger templates.

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Add Mixx to the Wordpress Sociable 2.0 Plugin

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

You can add a Mixx icon to your Wordpress Sociable plugin in less than 5 minutes.  I will provide both manual edits and modified files.  Either way it should be a very simple modification for anyone. Check out an interview with the founder of Mixx: Chris McGill, for the latest buzz on this new [...]

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CSS Image Replacement, The How To

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

CSS Image replacement is very affective for style sheet based themes. The advantage of using image replacement is compatibility for screen readers or non-image based browsers that can not use my .css document. If I did not do this, then non-image based browsers would not be able to navigate my site easily and [...]

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  • bodytext
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Sphinn
  • Mixx
  • Reddit
  • Technorati