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Blogging For Dummies III: Look for it in 2010!

I did something pretty exciting this week: I signed a contract to write the third edition of “Blogging For Dummies!”

“Blogging For Dummies, 2nd Edition” came out in January of 2008. Shane Birley was my co-author, and we had a lot of fun (there was also some stress) in working through the…

The Clean Bin Project: A Consumer Free Year

The Clean Bin Project was a year-long project whose goal was to get a shared household to buy nothing and reduce the amount of garbage produced to as close to zero as possible, undertaken by Vancouverites Jen, Grant and Rhyannon. Hop Studios gave free consulting, graphic design and Web development to the Clean Bin Project because we believed in supporting what they were trying to accomplish.

Announcing: Publish That Plugin for ExpressionEngine

Our new Publish That plugin is a twist on our popular Edit This plugin.

EE Roadshow v2.0, Submissions Open

Hop Studios is happy to be organizing again the second ExpressionEngine Roadshow, in Seattle, Oct. 2. We’ve just opened the submission form, and because we are GO-GO GETTERS, we have set the deadline for speaker submissions to be June 30.

The 15 Largest ExpressionEngine sites May 2009

There’s hasn’t been any single list of large, successful ExpressionEngine-powered websites. Well, that’s all about to change:  Here is the definitive list of the 10 largest ExpressionEngine websites.

Update May 20: After adding A List Apart, Kukla’s Korner and Gov.ca.gov, I decided to expand the list to the top 15.  The order is slightly different now.

Update May 15: I’ve had a number of good suggestions for big sites, and one has definitely made it into the top ten: Top Gear, the BBC racing show. I’m also tipped to two more “can’t-tell-you” sites about which I’m trying to find out. Stay tuned.