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WordPress Search Tips and Security Flaws

If you want to customize WordPress’s search functionality you’ll have to scour the internet for bits of WordPress code in a post apocalyptic wasteland of seemingly irrelevant information. Not anymore! I’ve put these chunks of code and tips below to help you customize your users’ search experience without banging your head against the wall to get things working. In some situations you may have strangle your WordPress search for security/survival reasons, but don’t worry, we’ll cover that too.

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CARDERIZER Business Card Giveaway

Courtesy of CARDERIZER, I’m able to give away two print credits for their amazing gift cards. I have a prize of 100 Glossy 16pt Cards and another for 100 Matte 16pt Cards. I don’t know if you’ve read my review on their printing service, but its probably the best business card printing company out there due to their phenomenal customer service and products.

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Top 10 Android Business Applications

If you’re like most freelancers or small business owners these days, juggling your to-do list with life is like fighting off a dragon and ninjas at the same time (which is theoretically impossible). The second I leave my computer I start wondering if my next job will come in, what if a client’s website crashes, and the worst situation, what if somebody calls me offering free money? Wishful thinking, but its possible. To help solve my office dilemma I recently purchased an HTC Android phone. To help manage my life better, I’ve been searching around for the best Google Android applications to simplify running my business. Also, its very important you find some reliable and safe applications because several I downloaded sucked the juice out of my phone when I wasn’t even using them.

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CSS Grain Background Tutorial

Recently I created a website to organize and plan my upcoming wedding. When doing so it quickly became apparent that a visual shortcoming was the background. Although I used a grain based background (which is very popular right now) it still seemed too plain. To make things more interesting I added a transparent radial gradient on top of the repeated grain background. You can see a demo of the finished product at the link below.

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Adobe CS 5 for Web Design

Extremely under impressed with CS 4, I wasn’t keen on upgrading from version CS 3. Adobe announced their online conference to demo CS 5 a few months ago with flashy advertising to back up their words. Intrigued by how much money Adobe was dropping on their product, I felt it was worth checking things out. Watching the online conference last week invoked an array of emotions from happiness to tears. After viewing their new products I did some more research on how their efforts will be affecting web design and here is what I came up with.

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