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While Shopify provides a great ecommerce solution, the built-in blogging software isn’t as feature-rich as WordPress or Blogger. One of the more annoying issues for me was lack of avatar support. Fortunately, the Shopify staff recently made it much easier to show user …

Version control systems are a foreign concept to a lot of designers and front end developers. I've known about Git and Subversion (SVN) for quite a while, but as a one man shop, never really saw a need to use them. That changed when I began to develop themes that would be used …

One of my favorite things about the new Design Pepper site is the background images. What's so special about the background images? They rotate every hour. While the concept isn't particularly groundbreaking I think the different images add a touch of freshness for returning visitors. …

As I've mentioned before, the Design Pepper site recently switched from WordPress to Expression Engine. So I thought that I'd put together a high level overview of the differences between the two systems. 1. EE requires a lot more configuration With a typical WordPress …

If you've visited the Design Pepper website in the past couple of weeks, you probably noticed that it's sporting a new look. It's also been updated under the hood. Here are a few of the highlights. (If you're using a feedreader, you might want to click through to …

Does your code support IE6? With the news that Digg, YouTube, and other social media sites are beginning to drop support for IE6, there has been a flood of articles discussing whether web designers should stop supporting it as well. Unfortunately, neither "full IE6 …

Over the past couple of days I've been trying to make a list of all the software that I need to reinstall or transfer to my shiny new Dell* laptop. In the course of this list-making, I realized that though I have a lot of software that I use occasionally, there are a handful that …

If you've been working with CSS for long at all, you've probably spent a fair bit of time debugging seemingly intractable problems that turn out to have a very simple solution. The question: What can we do to debug our CSS faster? Validate your CSS You may know the CSS …

The Wrong Way To Think About Your Goals (And How To Fix It) : Million Dollar Leverage Dave Navarro suggests an alternate way to think about goals if you actually want to accomplish them. Unclutterer » Archive » Creating a minimalist workspace — from Zen …

First, if you haven't seen it, I have a guest post up at Daily Blog Tips called Become a Blogging Wizard – 6 Lessons from Harry Potter. And now here is another collection of great links from around the blogosphere. Conversations with an Underground Text Link …

Here is my latest collection of links that I found interesting and useful. Getting Creative With Your Content – Men with Pens James is tired of formulaic content and attempts to make readers jump through hoops. » The FourFourNiner: The Pilot » The …

Photo by Martin Kliehm (license) If you've been paying attention to web design news in the past week, you probably know that the web standards community has been having quite a bit of debate about a new feature of Internet Explorer 8. The controversy was kicked off by two …

What do you know for sure that just ain't so? | Awake At The Wheel | Small Business | Personal Growth Open Thread: What Do You Wish You Knew When You Started? : Freelance Folder Do The Unthinkable – The Scott Rigsby Interview — mytropicalescape.com One of …

Here is another list of great links from around the web. On Asking Questions — Jarkko Laine – Insanely interested If you're like me and hesitate to ask for things from other people, you need to read this post. Eric's Archived Thoughts: Resetting …

One of the perennial complaints of web designers, particularly those who write CSS, is dealing with bugs in Internet Explorer. Though IE7 has improved things a great deal, there is a sizeable chunk of the browsing public who are still stuck with IE6. There are a few different …