Dane Morgan

Sometimes you need to use an image for a link. Commonly places like menus are good candidates for this because you don’t want the text of those links on your page. Mostly this is for SEO reasons, otherwise, text is all good, right? But what about when you want a rollover effect, and you don’t really want to spend the time creating every image twice, or making every reader download two copies of every image? And compound that even further if you need special “active”, “first” or “last” states in the menu. That means even more images, and the javascript to make it all run. But I have a method that uses CSS and a single image. No duplicated images and no javascript.

My daughter definitely sees things her own way. God love her. Here is an audio of her version of Rudolph at age 5.

WordPress 2.9 is here! is it time to get upgraded? There are plenty of cool new features for all types of users in this release. Some of these features are the most exciting advancements to the WordPress core to date in my mind! Extensible User Profiles, Custom Taxonomies and Post Types, oh my!

How do you separate your personal and public spaces online? Do you have a strategy? Do you reserve someplace like facebook for just personal friends? Or are your personal and public on line personae one and the same? I’m not sure i really have the answers, but it’s something I’m thinking about. I want to do something about having a purely personal space where I share myself outside the blogging / social media context. I think Facebook may be the venue, but how to best proceed remains an open question.

I’m tired of offer lists, how about you?. I want to reward the folks who care enough about the trust I gave with my email address to offer me some real meat. Learn why I’m unsubscribing from the lists and rewarding the newsletters. it may be more efficient to publish a list, but as readers we should make it more effective to publish a newsletter.

Some people think sub par writing is killing the Internet, or at least parts of it. They also point to poor quality writing on ‘content mills’ being responsible for dragging down wages for writers in general. I have my own take on this, of course. Not everyone needs a high level of quality, and any quality above need is waste. Additionally, there are factors involved in content acquisition decisions that go far beyond the subjective quality of the writing. Businesses can not operate on the same principles as art endowment organizations.

DotSpots isn’t doing anything new really, they’re just doing it in a whole new way. The implementation is cool. It offers great social sharing potential, and makes it drop dead simple. Time will tell whether they add the things that make it a killer social sharing tool. I’d say it has a lot of potential and I will be using it to see where it goes.

I’m building my freelance portfolio, and that means I need to write more articles on more subjects than usual for me. Here’s a win/win proposition. Let me know what you need and I’ll write your next blog post for you!

I’m going to be attending tax school to be able to work as a tax preparer this coming tax season. And I might even start a blog to journal the whole process. I’m calling this my first freelance gig, and while that might not be completely accurate, that’s my story and I’m sticking it to the tax man.

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