Andy McIlwain @ andymci.com

links for 2010-07-28

Andy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:07:53 +0000

Scriblink – Your Online Whiteboard

Fantastic online whiteboard that can be used for collaboration and hashing out ideas. Browser-based, so excellent for cross-platform.

(tags: whiteboard collaboration app online brainstorming tool utility writing free)

Sucker Punch Trailer

Andy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:49:49 +0000

via youtube.com

Women, guns, samurai, dragons, explosions galore. This can only lead to good things.

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links for 2010-07-27

Andy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:08:50 +0000

Wolfram|Alpha Widget Builder

Build custom widgets for your site using Wolfram|Alpha's system as a base.

(tags: widget builder generator engine tool wolframalpha)
Nice Entity — "Find your character!"

HTML reference for those special text characters you see floating around the web.

(tags: html text reference font development ascii cheatsheet guide typography)

links for 2010-07-26

Andy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:07:47 +0000

WordPress $post Object Quick Reference

Overview of the $post object in WordPress, something I've been toying with heavily over the last week.

(tags: wordpress php reference object code post tag)

links for 2010-07-23

Andy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:07:13 +0000

CometChat

Facebook-esque footer bar for community-oriented sites.

(tags: cometchat chat footer bar im community plugin javascript facebook)
Email Marketing Tips, Articles and Guides

Great email marketing tips from the folks at MailChimp.

(tags: email marketing newsletter writing guides tips howto articles mailchimp)

links for 2010-07-22

Andy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:10:22 +0000

24 ways: Rock Solid HTML Emails

Writing HTML emails is a pain in the butt. Thankfully this guide simplifies much of the process.

(tags: html email css coding design development web tutorial guide)
I Write Like

Excellent viral marketing tool, and fun to boot. Run a bunch of text through the form and it'll spit out an author whose work is similar.

(tags: bot viral fun analysis writing blogging tool english language)

Barenaked Ladies: Every Subway Car [VIDEO]

Andy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:41:10 +0000

via new.music.yahoo.com

New music video from BNL was filmed in the outskirts of Toronto (notice the TTC logo on the subway car in the background).

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links for 2010-07-21

Andy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:07:13 +0000

6 Simple Steps to Change Your Table Prefix in WordPress

Beef up your WP security by changing the table prefix. Simple way to play it safe!

(tags: wordpress security mysql sql table prefix hack cms tutorials)
kevinleary.net

Fantastic WP developer who knows the in's and out's of launching WordPress as a CMS platform.

(tags: wordpress cms designer developer blog web tutorials guides)
Advanced Content Management with WordPress Custom Field Templates

Using the "Custom FIeld Templates" plugin, you can push WordPress into the realm of a proper CMS.

(tags: blogging cms wordpress content plugin guide howto code design development)
Komodo Edit

Fantastic code editor. Best part? Remote file access, which is great if you develop on a live server.

(tags: editor development free code komodo programming software tools web)

page.ly MultiEdit not working? Content not showing up? Here’s a fix!

Andy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:22:08 +0000

I’m using the page.ly MultiEdit plugin (plugin link on WP.org) on a rather large project, and everything was going fine, except for one small problem:

The content wouldn’t show up!

My code was fine. The tabs were displayed on the edit screen. No errors were being returned. I was confused as hell.

But then I figured it out.

So, what was the problem?

I didn’t initiate the WordPress loop!

As soon as I got the loop “if” statement put in place, the MultiEdit content was displaying just fine.

In hindsight, it’s obvious. The MultiEdit plugin works with the loop.

In a nutshell: Make sure the WP loop is in place on your custom page template, otherwise page.ly MultiEdit won’t work.

No loop = no MultiEdit content. Simple, eh?

(Image credit goes to Sarah Gooding, because I’m too lazy to screenshot my own MultiEdit implementation.)

Lessons from The Old Spice Man: @OhDoctah

Andy — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:01:08 +0000

the biggest key to the enormous success across almost every measurement for the Old Spice campaign was that it was centered around “personal contact with regular people. People need to communicate directly with their fan base.

via vaynermedia.com

I love this little excerpt from the Doctah.

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