Jenn Mears Web Design

My latest project has been one of those things where you say “Yeah, I’m pretty sure I can do that.” only to end up thrashing around on Google and in various forums, trying every keyword combination possible to make Wordpress do something that you thought would be fairly simple. (more…)

So I had an interesting synchronization happen last month. I met with a parenting group in Salem about possibly helping them put together a new web site and the site’s administrator asked me if I thought Wordpress MU would be a good solution for handling the group discussion feature. I had to ask him to explain what it was, and it sounded interesting, but kind of overkill for something that could probably be handled by comment moderation in Wordpress.

But the idea of using multiple blogs on one site was interesting and I thought it might work for another client who wanted to build a web site around the idea of one umbrella corporation and three companies under that corporation. (more…)

The Stockexpert site is one of that rarest of breeds, a free photo website that is actually free! Well, some of their best photos are only available via their credit system, but it is clearly explained and they tell you right on the 1st pop-up window how much each photo is at each resolution. Having spent the good part of a rainy Saturday afternoon slogging through about 6 stock photo websites, this site was tops for selection, pricing (majority of pay-for-use images $1) and ease of use.

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…)

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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