Jenn Mears Web Design

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Archive for February, 2008


RSS: a guide to weeding the web


What is RSS and why should I care?

RSS is an acronym for several variations of the same idea. Some people take it to mean Rich Site Summary. Others like the meaning RDF Site Summary, but for the majority of users out there, it stands for Really Simple Syndication. (more…)

Getting Photos into your Google Map

Since I’m currently working on 3 different sites that require working with Google’s map feature, I’ve had a chance to find a few quirks in their map interface. (more…)

Wordpress Advertising-The easy way

It seems like it should be easy enough. Your client wants to put a few ads for local businesses into the sidebar of their site. So you upload an image for the ad into your “images” folder, open up your “sidebar.php” file, find out where you want the ad to show up, write some html and Voila! Hey, wait a minute, there’s no image, just the “alt” tag showing through. What up?
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