I like having a local development environment when I’m working on new or existing projects. This means that if I blow something up, it’s just on my local machine and not on either the staging server or (God forbid) the live server. It’s an added level of sanity for me (I can revert back to the code that worked on the staging/live server before my changes blew it up). Also, … » Read more …
What type of a question is this? Your web site only has one home page, right? This is true, most web sites have a single home page that is considered the doorway to the rest of the web site. Most home pages are designed to cater to the fact that this is the first page a visitor will see. A good home page will lead your site visitors into the … » Read more …
Enough y’all. I can no longer idly stand by while my fellow Millenials bastardize our language in social media and in text communications. I’m a writer, which means I probably love wordplay as much as anything else. But don’t let my yearning for the return of the pun or applause for abundant alliteration sway you from a real issue going on in advertising and our culture. We have forgotten how … » Read more …
If you are reading this blog on our website, there’s a very good chance you entered our website from a channel other than typing in our homepage URL. We post our blogs on our social media, tag our posts for Search Engine Optimization and send blog articles out in our monthly email publication, The Absolute Truth. As a business, it’s important to understand how people interact with your website. And … » Read more …
Moorhead, MN – Absolute Marketing Group announces the hiring of Tiffanie McLean as media buyer. McLean’s responsibilities include planning advertising campaigns, media strategies and purchasing ads for clients’ businesses. McLean, 35, is a native of Fargo. Before joining Absolute Marketing she spent her past five years working as the production manager and account manager at H2M. McLean also served as gala chair for the Plains Art Museum’s 2010 annual spring … » Read more …
Working with the Thematic framework for WordPress can be really fun, especially when you have the freedom to use filters on the meta information for posts to style your post date to look like a calendar. What it looks like originally: The result after some filtering and styling: Goal: Modify a child-theme of Thematic to make posts display the meta like the following: Remove reference to the author (single author … » Read more …
Manually Install php on WampServer
In my last blog post, I said that I like having a development environment on my computer (running Windows 7). I use WampServer to do this. I especially like that WampServer allows you to have multiple versions of php (and MySQL and Apache) installed. You can switch between versions in the WampServer menu on the icon in the system tray. The server that an upcoming client project will be hosted … » Read more …