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  • jQuery FAQ fader

    A quick little jquery tutorial for anyone that’s interested. Of course I’m going to assume you have at least a little jquery knowledge. Such as setting up the basic foundation for the jquery library. Now that that’s out of the way. Today I had to make some quick documentation for a piece of software and I wanted a simple single page FAQ system where the questions were at the top of the page and the answers would display inside a dedicated viewing window. To accomplish this I decided... Read→

  • Featured Auctions Displayed

    It’s a common question. How do we make the front page show more than just 3 featured product or service Auctions? And it’s not as hard as you think! Open your main.php file in your favorite editor and then find the following code Read→  Read More →

  • Trouble shooting Plugins

    Plugins, we want em, we need em, we love em. But sometimes they have bugs. Unfortunately as with all software, even plugins will have their bugs. We try our hardest to test them, but inevitibilly we cannot account for every environment that they will be assimilated into. Sometimes plugins can push eachother around, other times it can be another customization that causes a Plugin to go rogue. While everyone loves a self starter I’ve found that sometimes self-starters shoot themselves in the... Read→

  • Member Profiles – Default Tabs?

    It was recently asked in the iLance forums how to set which tab is the default that appears on a members profile when someone clicks the link. Our goal here is to make the Full Profile tab be our default visible tab whenever someone clicks a username link to go to their profile. There are several ways to accomplish this, so lets review them. First we need to know how iLance prints the username and it’s associated link. One might think it’s straight forward, and that editing the html... Read→

Automation – Saving Jobs & Money

Posted by Umbrella On December - 5 - 2009

In times of such economic hardship, businesses find themselves having to make some tough decisions. What to cut, where to cut it from and even whether or not to keep the doors open. Unfortunately just like the radio, teevee and other media are telling us, these times are here. It’s no longer a whisper on the wind or a murmur around the water cooler; nope, its here and it doesn’t look like the problems are going to be solved in the short term. But what can a business owner do to cut costs,... Read→

Design vs Development

Posted by Umbrella On December - 5 - 2009

Even though most clients will know exactly what they want their new web site to do, and have an idea of how they want it to look, very few of these clients give any real thought as to what kind of services they require to bring this new web site to life. This doesn’t stem from lack of thought or planning, but from a lack of understanding some basic differences between titles and services. In most cases the client is a new comer to the industry and lacks understanding of industry terms,... Read→

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