Category Archives: Web Development

Facebook iFrame App / Page Tab Registration Just Got Easier

I don’t see that this has been announced or documented anywhere, but Facebook has made a change that will make it easier to fit a wider variety of apps into the registration form for Facebook apps and Facebook page tabs … Continue reading

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Public Speaking

This photo from my speaking gig at WordPress Miami is courtesy of event participant Alex Harris, from his Flickr stream. Thanks to the members of Club Awesome Toastmasters in Coral Springs for helping prepare me for opportunities like this. I’m … Continue reading

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Prototype ExpressDB for WordPress Plugin

This is a prototype of an unfinished plugin to promote ExpressDB, a simple and inexpensive data capture service offered by Caspio Inc., the cloud database company. ExpressDB is popular with web designers who aren’t necessarily database or programming experts. It … Continue reading

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ExpressDB Shortcode Test

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Video: How to add a custom tab to your Facebook page

This was created by John Haydon, one of the people who has been giving me feedback on how to improve Facebook Tab Manager, and gives a good overview of the basics of creating content with the plugin.

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Liked/Not Liked Content Support Added to Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress

Facebook Tab Manager 2.3 lets you specify that content should be shown or not shown depending on whether the viewer has Liked the page that your tab is embedded in. Add like=”1″ to the fbtab shortcode if content should only … Continue reading

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How to Pull Blog Content Into a Facebook Page Tab

This is a usage example for the Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress plugin, which lets you create and edit content to be displayed on Facebook from within the WordPress editor. This is the clippings page tab for my work as … Continue reading

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Updates to Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress

I continue to update Facebook Tab Manager aggressively, maybe too much so. I really should have called the first version 0.1, as I’ve now put out so many upgrades and fixes that it’s at version 2.1 — less than two … Continue reading

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Forbes.com: Best Buy en Español Profits By Serving the Hispanic Market Better

Hispanic customers who shop on the web are giving their time and money to Best Buy in appreciation of its effort to speak their language. Best Buy offers an almost complete duplicate of its main English language website in Spanish … Continue reading

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Another Social Plugin Experiment

[savejs]<iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/recommendations.php?site=www.carrcommunications.com&amp;width=300&amp;height=300&amp;header=true&amp;colorscheme=light” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:300px;” allowTransparency=”true”></iframe>[/savejs] Random Javascript widget, protected with experimental savejs shortcode. [savejs]<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://blog-apart.com/WORLD_TIME/world_time.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript”>area_id=”0″;_bgcolor=”#999999″;_footercolor=”#999999″;world_time_s_function();</script><br /><a href=”http://widgia.com/category/clockcountdown-widgets/” target=”_blank”>More Clock widgets here</a>[/savejs]

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