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November 2011

The Death of Mobile Flash

Apple’s infamous decision to block Flash from running on its mobile devices was a prophetic one.  Adobe is halting all development of the mobile Flash player plugin and will now focus on delivering tools for developing in the mobile market with web standards such as HTML5.  Although it seems…

The Death of Mobile Flash

Apple’s infamous decision to block Flash from running on its mobile devices was a prophetic one.  Adobe is halting all development of the mobile Flash player plugin and will now focus on delivering tools for developing in the mobile market with web standards such as HTML5.  Although it seems…

Google Analytics and Social Interaction Part 1:

Google Analytics now provides a set of reports for tracking social interaction with a website’s content. This new metric will measure how often users use social share buttons – for example, a Facebook Like, and Google +1, a LinkedIn share, or a tweet. This information can be used to…

Google Analytics and Social Interaction Part 1:

Google Analytics now provides a set of reports for tracking social interaction with a website’s content. This new metric will measure how often users use social share buttons – for example, a Facebook Like, and Google +1, a LinkedIn share, or a tweet. This information can be used to…

Visualizing Data with Google Charts

If you can type a URL in your browser, you can create a quick chart with the help of Google. Just when you thought Google had made your life easy enough, you stumble upon Google Charts. Never again will you draw a Venn Diagram by hand. Plotting out…

Reserving Slugs for WordPress

As part of our Apollo WordPress theme, we included a short code for generating a Site Map for a web site. While a useful feature, in the past weeks we decided that we needed a way for all our sites to have a site map page created by…

RSS Widget Upgrade

We recently rolled out an upgrade to our WordPress website (if you’re using the new UF&Shands website theme): The RSS feed widget has now been completely re-engineered. At this point some of you may be asking, “What is an RSS feed?” An RSS feed is a format for delivering regularly…

The Latent Power of Photoshop’s Layer Comps

Way back in 2003 Adobe released its eighth version of Photoshop. Buried within was a little known gem called Layer Comps. As a youthful, self-proclaimed grandmaster of Photoshop, I casually dismissed this quiet addition as gimmickry and carried on with my negligent ways. Eight years later,…

Take Charge of your Broken Links

What are Broken links? Just like it sounds, they are links that are not functioning the way they are supposed to work. Broken links in a website can be a big issue. Not only do they cause frustration for users trying to use the links, they also cause issues…

Email Newsletter Design

How taking 30 minutes of prep. time could increase the individual readership of your articles (from email campaigns) by nearly 200%… Let’s paint a very simple picture: You’re getting ready to announce to the world the release of your new online magazine/newsletter. It’s filled with dedicated articles on several…