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Err, so what’s been going on?

June 7, 2011 Blog

If you’re anything like me, you have clients. Demanding clients with deadlines which are often more important than blog posts. So you skip a post or 2, and before you know it you haven’t blogged for 6 months. Sound familiar? Good, then you’ll accept my apology and we can move on. Here’s what’s been happening [...]

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10 tips to survive the 1st year of freelancing

March 22, 2011 Freelancing

Today marks my 1-year anniversary as a full-time freelancer. In the past 365 days I’ve made some interesting observations about this business. Here are ten I can remember in no particular order: People are strange. Mostly they’re awesome, but occasionally they’re abusive, overly-demanding or just plain dumb. Get used to it. You’re not a successful [...]

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What would you do?

February 11, 2011 Blog

Take a look at your website, your social media profiles, everything you do online. What frustrates you most? Given an extra 2 hours a week to generate more sales leads online, what would you do? To make it more interesting, pretend you have no budget for this. Nothing for sale here, I’m just curious. Answers [...]

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Affinity – A FREE Thesis Skin

January 11, 2011 Blog

Update (03-01-2012): I have temporarily removed the Affinity skin as it needs a major update. It will be re-released in coming months as a premium theme/skin. Thanks for your interest. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I was planning on releasing a new skin for Thesis. Well, it’s here. What is Affinity? I wanted [...]

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Lose 20 Pounds

January 3, 2011 Blog

First up, Happy New Year. I wish you all the best blah blah blah. You’ve heard it all already… New Years Resolutions are a complete and utter waste of time, right? Right. So I don’t generally make them. But this year I decided that because sitting in front of a computer for 12+ hours a [...]

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New Thesis site for Brook Farm Cuffley

October 13, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

Recently I was asked by Brook Farm in Cuffley (that’s in England, a soggy, bankrupt little island off the coast of France) to redesign their website. I don’t often tackle design projects, but I figured I could improve the existing site. Here’s what it looked like before:

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7 marketing lessons I’ve learned this week

September 28, 2010 Blog

So far this week I’ve learned that: Most people outside the Internet marketing arena don’t understand what web designers/developers do. My wife, one of the most intelligent people I know, has no idea what I do for a living. She tells people “he makes websites look nice”. 8 of the 10 people I’ve asked (in [...]

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How to center your Thesis menu

September 13, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

I’ve seen a lot of Thesis theme users struggling to center align their main navigation menu, and it really isn’t that hard to do. Here’s a 3-minute fix to get you on the right track. In this tutorial I make the following assumptions: You’re using the Thesis Menu, not the WordPress 3.0 menu system. Your [...]

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thinkdave.com gets an upgrade

August 26, 2010 Blog

This morning I launched version 3647 of thinkdave.com, with a new layout, a few new features and hopefully, better content. Here are the important additions: Thesis updated to version 1.8 I’ve upgraded Thesis from 1.7 to the all new version 1.8. I haven’t had a chance to use the Custom Loop API yet but I [...]

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Actually I DO have an opinion on the Thesis vs. WordPress debate

July 14, 2010 Blog

So today was fun, wasn’t it WordPress & Thesis people? In case you missed it, here’s a brief rundown of what happened: Update: Thesis now sports a shiny new Split license which should appease all you GPL lovers. Can we get some work done now? Bill Erikson sent out a Tweet explaining that WordPress had [...]

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