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Alex Chousmith

Tips

Protect Your Eyes from Monitor Strain with the 20-20-20 Trick

Hot off the (video) presses from the Today show is a technique / bit of advice to protect your eyes from the strain of using a computer all day every day: the 20-20-20 trick. It's easy: every 20 minutes, just take a 20 second break to focus your eyes on something 20 feet away from you. Dr. Keri Peterson also advises that the top of your computer monitor(s) should be level with your eyes, so looking at the whole of…
February 7, 2011
DevelopmentTips

Quick Shoutout : Duplicate Post Plugin

Russell and I were talking strategy and usability this morning, and we realized one of the few things WordPress was missing was a "Clone Page" / "Save Page As..." function. Now I am writing this post because I am excited that I don't have to make that plugin myself, as it already exists! And duplicating a Duplicate Posts Plugin ourselves would just be silly. Adding "Duplicate" as a quick link on the main Edit Posts / Edit Pages areas, and…
February 2, 2011
Development

Alex’s Recommended Plugins – Plugin

In developing with WordPress for a few years now, I have found that there is a shortlist of plugins that I find useful on almost every site I work on. These plugins cover the range from things every good site should have - help with SEO, contact forms, analytics, automatically generated XML sitemaps, database backups - to other aspects that might also be desired - image galleries, A/B testing, eCommerce... and now, you (and I) can have this list available…
January 31, 2011
DevelopmentMarketing

Shoutout to MailChimp, Shoutout from MailChimp

MailChimp is a rad, free, email marketing & email list management website. We have had the pleasure of using their email marketing solutions to meet (and exceed) the needs of some of our clients - like when the first email blast for Pencils.com brought in some 300+% ROI in sales the first day after it was sent out. Besides their UI designs, I have been really impressed with how easy it is to tie their product (add a Subscribe to…
January 25, 2011
CultureDesignDevelopmentMarketingPress / News

Ninthlink Presents Black Book Sessions’ Relaunch

Just in time for Black Book Session 9 next weekend, we are proud to have been a part of the redesigning of BlackBookSessions.org. "Black Book Sessions is a non-profit organization committed to empowering and inspiring young, talented minds dedicated to helping kids & teens develop their artistic skills and build their confidence." Now up and running on WordPress (as of Friday late afternoon), the new site does a great job spotlighting their upcoming events, blog activity, and of course, the…
January 19, 2011