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Introducing Video Tutorials

By: Jason Craig on Jan 19, 2010 | No Comments

With the launch of our updated site we wanted to expand our content to our followers.  Part of the expansion is the addition of video tutorials.  Every week we will introduce a new 'How-To' video.  If there is a particular topic you would like us to create a video on, contact us and let us know

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Prosper202 Complete Install Package – Hostgator Fix

By: Jason Craig on Dec 10, 2009 | 13 Comments

Prosper202 Complete Install Package As we approach nearly 1000 downloads on our Prosper202 Complete Install Package, we've seen a few comments where people needed a little additional help on how and when to overwrite the functions.php file. To make life easier, we've included our fix in this

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WordPress Plugin Recommendations

By: Jason Craig on Nov 19, 2009 | No Comments

With over 7,200 plugins freely available for WordPress there is quite a bit out there which can help enhance and improve your website. It is easy to simply add multiple plugins and accumulate a large amount over time. Adding multiple plugins should be done with some caution as I'm sure many

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BuddyPress: How To Use A Different Theme

By: Jason Craig on Nov 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

We've done quite a bit of work with Wordpress with our clients such as designing themes, creating themes from .psd's, making plugins and more. Working with the BuddyPress plugin was something completely new to us. It presented a few challenges which we thought we would share with you in the

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Is RentACoder Always a Good Idea?

By: Jason Craig on Oct 15, 2009 | No Comments

I thought it was time we give an update as to what we've thought about using RentACoder (RAC) to keep us busy when work contracted directly through our site is slow. We have been on RAC since we started nearly three months and the experiences have been a mixed bag of both good and bad. On

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Outsource The Outsourcing To The Outsourcer

By: Jason Craig on Sep 17, 2009 | No Comments

Who doesn't want something cheaper, especially nowadays right? I'll keep this in the realm of web related programming to make it relevant. To take from one of my previous posts, you have an idea for a website and have decided to hire a coder. We'll use RentACoder as the base for which you will be

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To Support IE6 Or Not….That Is The Question

By: Jason Craig on Sep 14, 2009 | No Comments

Internet Explorer 6 aka IE6 was released to the public on August 27, 2001, making it over eight years old now. The question that needs to be answered is should be still be supported in current web development. You can guarantee yourself you will get varying answers from nearly everyone you talk

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I Have An Idea For A Website….Now What?

By: Jason Craig on Sep 1, 2009 | No Comments

After many nights of lying awake in bed, going over idea after idea, you've finally come up with something that you think will make it big on the world wide web. As you continue to think your idea transforms from a simple static page site to a full-featured dynamic website. Now comes the hard

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WANTED: Your Ideas!

By: Jason Craig on Aug 19, 2009 | No Comments

It's hard to believe that we at BlueLayerMedia have any extra free time at all, but surprisingly, we do have a couple of extra minutes! We'd like to put those few extra minutes to good use. We recently released our first plugin Random Testimonials. We are currently looking for new and

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FIX: Permalinks & Statpress

By: Jason Craig on Aug 12, 2009 | No Comments

Many Wordpress users may be familiar with the StatPress plugin created by Daniele Lippi. It basically allows you to have a Google Analytics-esque section within your Wordpress admin to see all of the traffic coming into your blog. Undoubtedly a great plugin idea! Unfortunately the plugin

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