Journal & Studio Notes
Reflections on art direction, light, composition, and visual storytelling
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New Modern, "Flat" Look for XtremelySocial.com
2 minutesNo comments on New Modern, "Flat" Look for XtremelySocial.comI’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on complete redesign of XtremelySocial.com and have final finished it and rolled it out. I sure hope you like it! The theme is more modern, fully responsive, with “flat” look and color scheme. It uses two great looking open-source fonts of various weights. Perhaps even more…
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XtremelySocial Site Now Mobile Optimized
I have finally rolled out a new fully-responsive website theme that is optimized for both desktop and mobile browsing. The new site automatically reformats itself based on the width of the browser or mobile device. So it should look great whether you are accessing it with an iPhone, iPad, Android, or Windows Mobile device. The…
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How to Make an Awesome Maintenance Mode Screen for WordPress
Whenever you update your WordPress site to a new version or mass update multiple plugins at the same time, WordPress automatically places your site in “maintenance mode”. In this tutorial, I’ll show you to how to easily make an awesome “theme” that gets displayed instead of the blank white page that just says the site…
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Posting Site Comments Back to Facebook Now Fixed
Facebook changed the way developers have to publish to user’s “stream”, so I had to update the code here on XtremelySocial.com to get comment publishing to Facebook working again. Please feel free to comment at will! If you don’t have a particular article in mind that you want to comment on, feel free to use…
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How to Create a Popular Content (Top 10) Page in WordPress
This article will show you how to create a special page in WordPress that lists your most popular content. I had enhanced another plugin’s code to allow you to easily do this and he has already incorporated into the latest version! I have no idea why Wordpess doesn’t simply include the number of page views…
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11 Must-Have Plugins for Every WordPress Site
Regardless of whether you are running a simple personal blog or using WordPress as a full-featured corporate content management system (CMS), you should seriously consider adding all of these plugins. These plugins help you control spam, optimize your site for search engines, track site visits and other metrics, allow you to display related posts throughout…
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How To Allow Users To Invite Facebook Friends On Your WordPress Site
In my first article about WordPress, I’ll show you how to easily add a page to your WordPress site that allows your users to invite their Facebook friends to check out your website. You’ll first need to have Facebook Connect up and running on your site. More on that later. What I did was make…
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Welcome to XtremelySocial!
One of the great features with this site is that you can log in with your Facebook user ID and password. No need to register with yet another website! You can also post your comments on this site to your Facebook news stream, if you would like. You can see a list of your Facebook…