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A guide to not being Socially (Media) Awkward | Topherknowles's Blog
https://topherknowles.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/a-guide-to-not-being-socially-media-awkward
Thoughts that were too big to tweet. A guide to not being Socially (Media) Awkward. March 23, 2012. Did you see that message I left for you? What on my facebook. No I tweeted it. Oh I didn’t see it. Sorry I meant via linkedin. There are too many social media networks to keep track of these days, that’s an unavoidable fact. You want a presence on all of them but you don’t have time to keep them all updated. So just use a tool that updates them all. You have a lot of control over who is in your facebook ne...
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Making jQuery scripts work in WordPress | Topherknowles's Blog
https://topherknowles.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/making-jquery-scripts-work-in-wordpress
Thoughts that were too big to tweet. Making jQuery scripts work in WordPress. July 6, 2012. Most front-end developers working in WordPress are too lazy to code their own jQuery animations and functions when they want to do something they know has been done hundreds of times before. So we grab jQuery code from a website and shove it into WordPress… and usually nothing happens. Where you have a function such as…. You need to change the ‘$’ to ‘jQuery’ like so…. WordPress doesn’t like the ‘ $. Watched 5 min...
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Adding a tap to call button to a mobile site | Topherknowles's Blog
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Thoughts that were too big to tweet. Adding a tap to call button to a mobile site. July 10, 2012. Just a quick tip on how to add a tap to call button to your mobile website when the button text isn’t the number itself like so…. Instead of your standard href tag with a http:/ protocol you can use the following:. A href=”tel:01619682041″ Tap to call us now /a. The “ tel:. Hope this helps, there are more advanced ways to trigger your button tap activity. But this is the basics for tap to call. I can guarant...
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The case for compelling content | Topherknowles's Blog
https://topherknowles.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/the-case-for-compelling-content
Thoughts that were too big to tweet. The case for compelling content. May 18, 2012. Content is king. That must be one of the oldest cliches around in online marketing. How about another? Build it and they will come. Sounds simple in theory (and in swooshy agency presentations) but it is in fact one of the hardest things to do as a small online business. When I first joined The Data Octopus. The penguin and panda extinction fightback. Content by numbers, the secret to creating compelling content. I’...
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Adding jQuery Mobile transitions to WordPress Custom Menus | Topherknowles's Blog
https://topherknowles.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/adding-jquery-mobile-transitions-to-wordpress-custom-menus
Thoughts that were too big to tweet. Adding jQuery Mobile transitions to WordPress Custom Menus. July 11, 2012. JQuery mobile is a fantastic resource and generally it’s quite easy to use it alongside a WordPress installation. One of it’s fancier client-impressing features is animated transitions between pages. These are easy to add to any link if you can directly edit the url, you just add data-transition=”flip”. A href="http:/ yourpage.com" data-transition="flip" Fancy flippin' link /a. Now go and flip,...