Conditional PHP statements can be your best friend when developing for WordPress. They allow you to display information based on certain conditions. We can use WordPress’ internal meta data, such as tags and categories, to determine what to display in certain cases. In this case, we want to simply display a unique heading for various [...]
9 Essential WordPress SEO Plugins and Tips
WordPress is the best platform to develop a site on for many reasons. It’s simple interface allows you to easily manage your site, and a worldwide community of developers have created some amazing plugins that build off the inherently awesome SEO foundation of WordPress. I consider the list below some of the most “essential” plugins [...]
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Hello, and thank you for visiting my personal website and online portfolio. My name is Mike Meisner, and I specialize in front-end design and standards-compliant XHTML and CSS. I also have expertise in JavaScript, PHP, internet marketing, SEO, WordPress, templating, and various content management systems. Visual Elegance In design I strive to balance between text [...]
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You won’t get confused with technical jargon. I am patient and address all your concerns promptly and politely. I create websites you can update yourself – no technical experience necessary I have worked with websites for nearly ten years I have high rates of client retention and satisfaction I have a diverse portfolio Let’s get [...]
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I have been building websites for over six years and have a wide background, that includes experience in technical writing, customer support, marketing and communications and general project management. When combined, my skills allow me to bring a wide scope of experience and understanding to each project.
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Hot new jQuery Slider
I’m not a big fan of the other javascript libraries, so when someone comes along and creates a jQuery version of a popular rival’s plugin, I’m happy. That’s the case with the “s3Slider” plugin for jQuery. It’s super slick and reminiscent of Jondesign’s “smoothgallery”. I look forward to using this in future themes. Check it [...]
Google’s guide to SEO
The Google team recently took some time to address a common question. How can I improve my search engine rankings? To wit they created several small, concise guides about search engine optimization for you to download. These guides are easy to understand, and include lots of images for us visual-minded folks. I suggest downloading and [...]
Create multiple headers in WordPress
The Problem I’ve enounterd the need for this on several projects and thought it might help. In this case, I didn’t want the featured slider to appear on every page, as it was located in the header. You too, may want to display page-specific headers based on certain conditions. Well, it’s not that hard with [...]
Give Firefox mad boost
I recently came across a few interesting sites that offer tips and tricks on how to tweak Firefox; if you’re like me and want your nine tabs of data-heavy websites to run at hyper speed, check out these links. Most notable were the speed tweaks, which I can say increased this things effectiveness. Having used [...]




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