Technorati Made Us Do It
We're submitting the new blog to Technorati, so they've asked us to do the "input this strange code in a new post without completely making your readers wonder what the heck is going on" dance. Here you go, Technorati. Hope you're happy. AUMQ3JJ77G4H …
Responsive Web Design: Say Goodbye To Pixels
Perhaps not goodbye, but maybe an “until next time.” Although I’ve tried my best to ignore it, responsive web design is here to stay. A List Apart seems to run a weekly editorial on it and all the big conferences are focusing on this new type of web development. I knew the time had come [...] …
Cincinnati Art Gallery Tribute to our Local Fallen Marines
Recently we had the privilege of stopping into an amazing art gallery in our lovely city of Cincinnati. The gallery showcased nine extremely detailed portraits of our hometown fallen soldiers, whom fought courageously and gave their lives for our country in 2005. Nine memorial paintings were displayed at Colerain High School for a week and [...] …
Tax Write Off Guide for Small Business
As a co-owner of a small business, I know how important it is to structure out operations. We focus on every aspect of building a strong business, and part of this involves taking careful considerations for our taxes. It’s important for all small businesses to manage their accounting as best they can, and in turn, [...] …
WordPress Media Library Not Working
When working with WordPress, you will find out fairly quick that it can be pretty sensitive during updates and host transfers. This may create tension with the main reasons why you chose to use WordPress for your website in the first place, for example our issue being the Media Library. Our problems occurred during a [...] …
Get Only The URL Of The Previous And Next Posts In WordPress
Today, while trying to configure links between a blog’s next and previous pages, I ran into a little hiccup that seems to be one of the little features that has been forgotten by WordPress’ contributors. There is absolutely no function to return ONLY the URLs of the next and previous pages. To save anyone else [...] …
Three Tips For Financial Independence — The Hard Way
The year has already been one of success. Recently, I had time to sit back and reflect on some of the basic principles that I’ve always strove to follow. They aren’t from any one book or person, but rather a collection of things I overheard, events I witnessed, stories I listened to. And in my [...] …
Online Movement Against SOPA and PIPA
Today, January 18, 2012, is the start of thousands of websites gathering together to form an online protest against two internet regulation bills currently under review in Congress. You have probably experienced it by now by not being able to go to your favorite sites like Wikipdia, Reddit, Boing Boing and Craigslist. So what [...] …
The Best New Old Thing: jQuery Masonry Plugin
Every designer has come across a itemized design that called for precipitous “blocking” of elements at least once in their lives. Much like the front page of this blog, for instance. And most have found that unless you specify an exact height for each block item, the entire design will fall to shambles once you [...] …
I Love Typography
John Boardley is a British-born writer, publisher, and graphic designer. Along with his passion for design his love is for typography gave him the concept to create one of our favorite blog sites, I Love Typography (ILT). I Love Typography blog was born on August 7, 2007 and blew up since the launch. It is [...] …
Disable WordPress Auto Formatting Using Short Code
Anyone who has worked with WordPress knows how bad the automatic formatting can when you are creating your pages or posts. Thankfully, after hours of testing and looking for helpful advice we stumbled on the best solution; to our amazement it is just a bit of short code. This short code will disable only the [...] …
State of the Union: January 2012
Each month we will publish an article with the pre title of "State of the Union". SOTU will be an outlet for Ideas and Pixels to showcase happenings in and around our office, giving you a peak into the daily life at Ideas and Pixels. We'll cover major events that we attend, milestones we achieve with our clients, and more. …
