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Amazon S3 — Are you protected?

This morning I received emails from two separate clients who were worried about their Amazon S3 protection. Amazon Web Services sent out an email over the weekend alerting people who had settings that may cause a security issue. So I did some research to help solve the problem for my clients.

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Got Video?

If you've tried to embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo or Flickr, you know that they provide you with a chunk of code to add to your blog post. You have to make sure you add it to the HTML tab, and also have to be careful about "loosing" the code if you switch back to the Visual editor. Well, here's a solution!

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50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials

A friend of mine on Twitter (@YourSavvyVA) shared a link to this article today.

50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tools and Tutorials from Smashing Magazine

Now, I’m not a CSS (cascading style sheets) guru by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, but I’ve tweaked my share of themes and done my share of Google searches to find out how to get my site showing just the way I’d like it to look. But in looking over just the titles of these 50 articles, I feel like I’ve learned so much about what is possible with CSS.

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WordPress Plugins: Take back control of your Widgets!

As with all WordPress sites, Widgets are a boon to Membership Site creators. Being able to pop in a bit of text or a list of links or whatever in the sidebar is one of the key factors to the…

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3 Top Plugins to Install on Your Membership Site

Have you ever looked at the amount of plugins available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/? Wow! There seems to be hundreds of thousands (ok, I’m exaggerating slightly!) and if you search for a topic, you’ll find several that seem to do the…

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