Archive for April, 2009

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This video tutorial walks through the process of creating a new email newsletter campaign, selecting the template, and editing the newsetter template using the simple newsletter CMS. Once you’ve entered your content, this tutorial takes you through the basic steps to send out.

In the design is series, I will release wallpapers for your desktop that reflect my ever-changing personal view of the web design community.

In this first release, I chose a topic that has been on my mind lately: originality in modern web design. Is there such thing as original and/or unique design anymore, or is all design recycled from history?

Hope you like it.

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Well it has now been 2 years since we launched our Canadian based web hosting service and I am amazed with the feedback we have received.  Our clients have been extremely happy with the value we offer and the service levels we provide. Our practice for shared hosting is not to overload our servers to ensure the best overall performance. All of our shared hosting packages can be found here.

We offer a number of dedicated server packages which will meet the demands of any SMB. In addition to the packages we offer, we provide custom server configurations (contact us). This month we announced single and dual Xeon server packages (found here), which is an optimal server for load intensive application.

jQuery accordions are a dime a dozen these days; there are dozens of them floating around the jQuery plugin repository, each with its own specialized functionality and purpose. A few projects ago, I was looking for a basic accordion plugin but could not find one simple and lightweight enough to suit the project, so I decided to write my own. It was my perfect foray into jQuery plugins, as the functionality is simple and basic and allowed me to focus on learning how to effectively write plugins.

We have continued to use jQuery.yaa (yet-another-accordion) in most of our projects due to it’s light weight and simple functionality. It functions as a basic accordion menu, and nothing more. I may expand on it later depending on the needs of future projects, but for now, here is jQuery.yaa:

http://604media.com/604js/

With the long awaited launch of osCommerce 3.0, the 604 team has just released the first of many contributions. A robust newsletter management tool these days is very important to measure your penetration rate and to deliver quality, inviting newsletters. Having used a number of different tools, we feel that Campaign Monitor has the best mix of value for dollar for the SMB market.

The developed modifications are simple in nature, but allow for Campaign Monitor integration nonetheless.

You can download this contribution here

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