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"I heart geeks of doom!" - Lisa McMillan

"I wonder if we could make Ontario a Silicon Igloo." - Lisa McMillan

At GraphicRiver we love icons! So to celebrate the Redesign of the Envato Marketplaces we asked kickass icon designers Turbomilk to make a special icon set to give away absolutely, completely one hundred percent free! All you need is a link back to this page and you can use it in anything from personal to commercial to items for sale on ThemeForest and FlashDen. Go wild! - Lisa McMillan

jQuery, one of the best things that happened to programming. jQuery is fast and concise yet it is able to produce mind blowing animations and interactions. On the other hand, we have WordPress, which is known best for its customization. When customized, it can ultimately power any type of website. In this post we are going to combine these two powerful elements by the use of the plugins below to create effects that will rock your WordPress site. - Lisa McMillan

JPolite (jQuery POrtal Lite) is a lightweight front-end web portal framework based on jQuery. The focus is easy content integration at the front-end, through an intuitive naming system and conventions plus simple and easy configuration. Developers can make use of various server side technologies and frameworks to generate content for the portal. Features: * Flexible layout configurations * Module drag-drop (thanks to jQuery UI * Simple UI controls (Tabs, accordion, ...) * Sample RSS Reader ... Last not least, the core js file weighs only 5kB after compression! Check out the Live Demo to experience. - Lisa McMillan

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SlickMap CSS SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up ... - Lisa McMillan

you need to create a rewrite condition to only apply the rule to your old domain or the subdomain in this case. Just add the following two lines to your .htaccess file in the root of your website - Lisa McMillan

Minify is a PHP5 app that can combine multiple CSS or Javascript files, compress their contents (i.e. removal of unnecessary whitespace/comments), and serve the results with HTTP encoding (gzip/deflate) and headers that allow optimal client-side caching. This helps you follow several of Yahoo!'s Rules for High Performance Web Sites. - Lisa McMillan

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6. - Lisa McMillan

Get the most out of your Google Analytics with this collection of links to implement, configure and get insights from Google Analytics. - Lisa McMillan

This website is for those who want to follow the Google webmaster guidelines, but seek more definitions, explanations and examples than Google provides in their documentation. - Lisa McMillan

If there are certain subdirectories of your website that you would like to track, you can create a filter to only report on traffic to that directory - Lisa McMillan

Google Webmaster Tools allows client applications to view and update site information and Sitemaps in the form of Google Webmaster Tools Data API feeds. Your client application can use the Google Webmaster Tools Data API - Lisa McMillan

Using Regexes (Regular Expressions) with the Redirection Plugin for WordPress. After some testing and asking for more information, I have figured out the most affective way to use the regexes with the WordPress plugin. - Lisa McMillan

Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are powerful but still yet quite unknown WordPress functions. Imagine you could just type “adsense” to display an AdSense ad or “post_count” to instantly find out the number of posts on your blog. WordPress shortcodes can do this and more and will definitely make your blogging life easier. In this article, we’ll show you how to create and use shortcodes, as well as provide killer ready-to-use WordPress shortcodes that will enhance your blogging experience. - Lisa McMillan

PHP Speedy is a WordPress plugin that cleans up and compresses your code so that it can load faster. There are few technical configurations that you need to make, but it is definitely manageable, even when you don’t have any coding knowledge - Lisa McMillan

There’s probably a good chance you have. Either more than 90% of themes have sloppy code or by some astronomically improbable chance, I only ever happen to download themes with sloppy code. I’m hoping to open the eyes of at least a small percentage of theme authors and help usher in a new era of neater code. - Lisa McMillan

So, after building a number of plugins from it, and “perfecting” it (read: adding time saving features, because I’m lazy and don’t like to re-write code) I’ve decided to release it to the Wordpress community so that other plugin authors don’t have to start from scratch anymore either. - Lisa McMillan

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times. - Lisa McMillan

I was TOTALLY going to tweet the same thing yesterday, but thought people would think I'd have a dirty mind. Well I do, but at least I'm not alone anymore. - Lisa McMillan

I sure hope this is the future of brochureware. - Lisa McMillan

This is the best tip ever. No more apple-click on the folder to figure out where I am. Thanks for the share, Jesse! - Lisa McMillan

I've been using 2.7 since the first beta release and man, is it slick. I get all giddy just thinking about it. - Lisa McMillan

shocking. ;) - Lisa McMillan

great read. i wish i had time to experiment more. - Lisa McMillan

this makes me want to move to Seattle - Lisa McMillan

They found Brandon's remains yesterday. Sad sad news. Still no word on cause of death. :( - Lisa McMillan

Jon Hicks is making the move from freelancer to in-house Senior Designer for Opera. I'll be incredibly interested to see what will come of this. - Brad Dillon

I can't WAIT to see what he does for Opera. Could be a tipping point given the respect Jon has from the web community. - Lisa McMillan

+10 points. Yay tims. - Lisa McMillan