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Announcing: Feed URL Plugin for ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine’s weblogs include lots of paths to configure (so many that we wrote a module to help manage them).  One of these paths is the RSS Feed URL. 

Now, say you wanted to use that URL somewhere in your templates.  For example, you might want to put a link to your blog’s RSS feed…

Why It Looks Like That: Constraints in Web Design

A traditional print project has one chief constraint: money. You can apply more to get what you want: larger paper sizes, more or brighter colors, or more exciting art. The balance between what a client can afford and what the technology can provide directly shapes the project’s parameters…

Author Don Calame

Our client Don Calame is about to add “book author” to his many writing credits as a screenwriter of film and television projects. His new book, “Swim the Fly,” is due to be published in April 2009. In order to generate a little buzz and build an online presence Don wanted a website…

Northern Voice 2009 Wrap-Up: All the NV09 Posts We Could Find

2009 marked the fifth year of the Northern Voice conference, Vancouver’s very popular personal blogging and social media conference, This year, the Hop Studios staff was involved in many ways to help make it the fun times, connection-filled, and interesting talk extravaganza that it was…. …

Announcing: Reeveal Comments Extension for ExpressionEngine

Here’s the idea behind Reeveal Comments: All the comments associated with an entry are accessible—and can be managed—from the same page you edit the entry on.  No more hunting for the right dropdown; no more digging to find the comment you’re after.  Just open up the entry and click the…