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Graffiti CMS Plugin - Events and Event Calendars

Charles Boyung — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:59:00 GMT

I am currently building a website for a local magazine using Graffiti CMS. It handles most of the things that the site needs, with two notable exceptions: Show profiles for the various writers,...

Email for Your Small Business

Charles Boyung — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:46:00 GMT

Having email for your small business is nearly as important as having a website. In fact, in some ways, it may even be more important. And just like it looks really bad to your customers...

Fixing Registration Forms – Country Selection

Charles Boyung — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:04:00 GMT

A few months ago, I wrote about how to fix passwords in registration and login forms. Now, I’m going to discuss some ideas on how to improve country selection. This isn’t...

How to Get More Comments

Charles Boyung — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:18:00 GMT

Every writer on the web wants to get as many comments on what they write as they can. I’d personally love to see more comments on the things that I write here. Whether it’s...

Be Good to Your Users, and They will be Good Right Back

Charles Boyung — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:05:00 GMT

A couple of days ago, I received this email: I had signed up for the Avery newsletter a long time ago, when I downloaded some templates for Microsoft Word. I figured I’d...

Programming for Performance Part 3: Normalization Gone Mad!

Charles Boyung — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:58:00 GMT

This is the third part in my series on programming for performance. The first two parts are available here: Part 1: Begin Smart about Code Reuse Part 2: Understanding Your Target Platform and...

Programming for Performance Part 2: Understanding Your Target Platform and Audience

Charles Boyung — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:07:00 GMT

In Part 1, I talked about being smart about code reuse. The story that I have here about understanding your target platform helps reaffirm that viewpoint, while also going into new realm of...

Programming for Performance Part 1: Being Smart About Code Reuse

Charles Boyung — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:34:00 GMT

Performance. It’s a very simple concept. When you write an application or build a website, it needs to do what the user requests in a timely fashion. It also follows that when...

String Truncation Function for C#

Charles Boyung — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:35:00 GMT

There have been several times where I have needed to truncate strings for various reasons. For example, on this TasteOfHome.com search results page, we needed to cut off the article body at a...

Proper Uses of Wikis

Charles Boyung — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:52:00 GMT

After my recent post about blogs and forums, I was posed the following question on the HFI Certified Usability Analysts site: Great article to luminate the strengths of blogs and forums. I have a...