Do you ever change something on your site then realized whatever it is you made completely messed up the design. So you go back to take out the change but the problem still remains. You can’t get your site back to where it was. So frustrating!

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I’m not afraid to admit I’ve been in that place way too often. Thankfully, one of my developers got me in the habit of Versioning. Versioning is act of process labeling or logging each change you make to a file or software. Sounds so difficult and complicated right? It is totally not. Here’s what you do.

Before making any change even if you know you’re not going to mess up anything - this by the way is especially helpful when making changes to WordPress themes - make a copy of that file and append the date. For example, I’ll rename the sidebar.php to sidebar-080613.php. Only

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Alice Seba recently posted on Twitter that one of her pet peeves is images without white space around it. Honestly, that drives me nuts too. I cannot stand text being squished up to the side of an image. Yeah, it’s picky but at the same time, it’s about making your site look good. I know you want it to.

Well, I for one prefer to have as little HTML in each page as possible. Therefore, I use CSS to help me. It’s not quite automatic but pretty darn close.

Here’s how you’d do it with just a little bit of CSS code.

Before you proceed, it is wise to make sure there is no code that already does this in your stylesheet. Otherwise, the browser will automatically choose one, ignore the other and you’ll be wondering why it didn’t work. First, enter this into your CSS

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img.right {
  float: right;
  margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;
  }
  img.left {
    float: left;
    margin: 10px

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Inquiring minds would like to know… what do you build your sites with? Over the years I’ve used a lot of different things from the humble notepad to DreamWeaver. These days, almost all of the sites are built upon WordPress with a static ExpressionWeb page here and there, less than 5% of the site.

What about you? What are most of your websites built with? Spill the beans and feel free to elaborate in the comments.

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Did I tell you I hate making web forms? Think I did some time back. Every time there’s a form to be made, I would die a little inside first. Thankfully there are much easier ways now.

GoogleDocs - One of the easiest ways to get a quick and dirty form up. I also like this method because all the responses are entered into a spreadsheet. This can be very handy for data that you need to further manipulate or analyze. Here’s a quick video to show you how.

cformsII for WordPress - This is one of the multitude of reasons I love using WordPress. One of my favorite, amazing plugins is cformsII. They call it a contact form but oh boy you can do so much more than contact forms.

• You can create forms where people can upload files for you.
• Forms that span multiple pages
• Limit form submissions - great for contests
• Tell-a-friend forms also ‘included’

Just overall a

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Code snippets are back. This week, pick up some simple HTML/CSS code to make those boring grey buttons pop.

Change the color, font and size of your button

Add a little fun image to your button

Mix it up with dashed borders

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