24 May 2010

In the search for a jQuery “slider” (made popular by the nice one at http://panic.com) for a client’s WordPress installation, I decided to give EasySlider a try. After QUITE a bit of tinkering I was able to integrate it into the site and there were moments I thought the plugin ought to be entitled NotSoEasySlider, which is a greater reflection on how WordPress made it a bit complicated than on the great work by the author, Alen Grakalic!
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2 February 2010

I spent nearly 2 solid days trying to figure out why the latest posts on one of my clients’ sites were not showing up in the “popup preview” provided by email marketing site MailChimp. I love http://MailChimp.com, but this had me stumped and my eyes were beginning to cross. I had already spent countless hours learning how to create a custom RSS feed, template and query in Wordpress (future, much bigger article).
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22 January 2010

Depuis son lancement il y a moins qu’un an, je suis sérieusement amoureuse de l’application (extension Firefox) Feedly qui est un aggregateur de flux RSS sans pareille. C’est ma page d’accueil dans Firefox, ma lecture de soirée, ma façon de surveiller des centaines de sites ou blogues que je n’ai pas assez de temps à [...]
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22 January 2010

I just posted this using the web service http://posterous.com where you can create links with a host of blogs, social sites and more, and then send posts via email. I fooled around with it a bit first to see what it came out like and here are a few tips :
1. I’m posting to [...]
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11 December 2009

Site web pour l’organisation Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant à Québec. Fait en Wordpress, c’est un site très complexe qui implique nombreux d’aspects et fonctions : l’adhésion et répertoire des membres par champs d’activité, actualités dans le secteur culturel-politico, paiement d’inscriptions en ligne, téléchargement et entretien de documents PDF, flux RSS spécialisé qui envoi automatiquement [...]
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11 December 2009

Working on a new website for award winning American fiddler Jeremy Kittel.This is a design for a single holding page while the complete site is developed (it will be up very soon).
Je travail actuellement sur le design du site web pour le violoniste américain Jeremy Kittel. Cette image provient de la page d’attente pendant que [...]
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11 December 2009

Design/développement du site pour Camp ViolonTradQuébec, un camp d’été devoué au perfectionnement et répertoire du violon traditionnel québécois. Sur le site : biographies des professeurs, réservation en ligne, achat de marchandise et informations sur les programmes.
Design/development of a site for Camp ViolonTradQuébec, summer camp devoted to learning and sharing traditional Québécois fiddle music. Features teacher [...]
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10 December 2009

Nouveau look pour l’entête du site Folquébec pour débuter la dixième anniversaire de l’organisation. New look for the Folquébec website header, to celebrate the beginning of the organization’s tenth anniversay.
http://folquebec.com.
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24 September 2009

I’ve been looking high and low, for a client, to find some way to easily upload and link to PDF documents. I came across the Apture plugin for Wordpress, which interfaces with the Apture website (http://apture.com) and lets you pick from uploaded documents of all types (multi-media, pdf, xls, pp, etc.). Click on the sample [...]
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29 July 2009

I had so much fun doing a new website for April Verch, a great Canadian fiddler, singer and stepdancer from the Ottawa Valley. I’m very proud of this site, which is in WordPress (of course) and really has so many of the elements and functions that a performing artist needs to maintain a good web [...]
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