HICKORY, NC Matt Everley, of Hickory, NC-based graphic design studio m.e.designlab, was recently selected as a winner for a 2013 American Graphic Design Award by a nationwide panel of judges. The award recognizes excellence in communication and graphic design.
PLEASE NOTE! Several people have had difficulties getting this to work. As I state in my disclaimer below, I am not available to provide support on an individual basis, nor do I know why it worked for me and not for others. My guess is that Facebook has changed something… again (as usual). However, my example still works! So for those of you who are still interested in trying this, by all means give it a go! Others have gotten it to work, as seen in the last few comments. And apologies in advance if it doesn’t.
This tutorial will teach you how to place a Facebook Page’s wall status feed into an html web page using Feedburner. It’s very similar to how you would create an RSS feed for your blog. (This is not a tutorial on how to integrate a “Like Box” from Facebook, which in my opinion looks pretty clunky, and Facebook limits the amount of CSS customization since they host the CSS files themselves.) I’m not a programmer myself, but a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required to customize the look and feel of the feed, and an understanding of publishing html web pages is a must. The gist of this lesson is to get a Facebook Page wall’s status feed or simple RSS feed placed within a web page.
New year… new resolutions! Here’s a list I’d like to make public of my new year’s resolutions as a web designer. (By making it public, I’m hoping I’ll stay on track a bit more.) They are in somewhat particular order, but who knows in which order they will be completed. These may take me all year, but here’s to trying! Read more
A colleague and I recently had a discussion around this question: What is the possibility of white-labeling WordPress to brand it as our own?
The answer she found was a plugin created and available through Video User Manuals called White Label CMS.
This is a great plugin and I think it definitely adds a nice touch to a client’s admin panel, making them feel it’s customized for them. I also like how it has an option for “Hide the nag update” which is great because it disables the “You are using WP version 3.x, please update to the latest version” which tends to throw clients into a tizzy. Using this plugin for this purpose adds an extra little step in the WordPress setup, but I think it goes a long way and is well worth the added effort. Read more
So you just created a fabulous new web site for your business… now what? If you build it they will come? Not really. The following presents a helpful list of “free” and “easy” tips and tactics to promote your web site. Why are “free” and “easy” in quotation marks you ask? Ahh, yes, because nothing is really free and easy these days. These are relative terms of course. The list below takes time and energy, and although these don’t cost money in a literal sense, they do take time and strategy. And as far as being easy, I say that loosely because they are intended as things you—the non-professional web designer/developer or do-it-yourselfer—should be able to do on your own. However, the items below are things you might want to pay someone who knows what he/she is doing better than you, as with any other undertaking. Read more