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By Wayne Buckhanan
 It’s been a whirlwind of a month. I’ve gotten more done in the last six weeks than the last six months and I “blame” a few different folks for contributing to my high level of productivity. In late July, I walked through a process called ISIS and set an intent to serve more people, leverage
By Wayne Buckhanan
Just a quick announcement that I updated the CookieMonster-plus plugin (since I realized I hadn’t announced the last minor update). The new features include a config option for setting the cookie duration (default is 30 days) and integration with Contact Form 7 to allow pre-filling text and email fields based on cookied values. I’m considering
By Wayne Buckhanan
While talking with one of my web design clients, the question of where to put certain design elements came up. I made this numbered image so that we could talk about regions of the Google heatmap image while working on his new site. The cool feature of this heat map is that it is based
By Wayne Buckhanan
I recently dove into a project to set up Facebook Tab Manager, a cool plugin from David Carr that feeds a Facebook fan page it’s content from your WordPress install. There are a couple cool features of the plugin for turning off certain WP filters that makes it especially nice. Otherwise, you can create your
By Wayne Buckhanan
Doing business on the Internet is “easy” — you just put up a web site and collect the moola, right? Um, no. Or at least not any more than doing business offline is as simple as setting up an office and getting paid. So, what’s missing from this overly simplistic idea of business? People for
By Wayne Buckhanan
Just a quick note to let you know that CookieMonster-plus has been updated to allow use on all pages (even ones using a template that doesn’t include a call to get_header!) and I found and squashed the pesky foreach() bug I couldn’t seem to replicate until today. Grab the CookieMonster-plus plugin directly or check out
By Wayne Buckhanan
This started as a quick update to the CookieMonster WordPress plugin to allow default values. It has morphed into a nearly complete re-write to add more functionality than the original. CookieMonster-plus takes incoming parameters like http://mercs.net/cookiemonster-plus/?example=NotDefault and puts the values in a cookie so that WordPress can then replace [example] with the value passed (and
By Wayne Buckhanan
Social media is like the mythical creature Medusa. Besides the fact that if you go in unprepared you’re likely to get stoned, social media has many slithery heads. I’m beginning a new experiment. In the past, I was following the usual advice to pick one or two platforms and concentrate on those. I fell into
By Wayne Buckhanan
One NLP technique is called “pacing and leading.” Pacing and leading is about meeting people where they are (pacing) and after you’ve started building rapport you shift (leading) and check to make sure they follow your lead. What does pacing and leading have to do with web development? An obvious choice for people who know
By Wayne Buckhanan
This is only a test. Had this been a real emergency you would have been instructed to run yelling from the building. This has been a test. (What are you testing in your business?)
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