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Thesis Design

Experimenting with the Brightcove Video Player

August 4, 2010

Just messing around with the Brightcove Video Player to see the different options and integration into Thesis.   Not much of an elegant blog post here, this is simply a whiteboard upon which we will be regurgitating our video player…  Probably going to be pretty ugly.
Going to keep an eye on the time and see how [...]

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SEO by Hansel & Gretel – Using Breadcrumbs for Search

May 1, 2010

Adding a breadcrumb navigation structure is a simple way to improve your website navigation and usability, and increase the “spider-ability” at the same time.   Google is now including breadcrumbs in the SERP’s, allowing a searcher to navigate directly to the page that most closely matches their search term.  This can help increase your click-through rate, [...]

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Header Change

March 12, 2010

Bye Bye Gigantic Header
Ok,we went ahead and changed the header as it was too big and ostentatious.  Obviously this was as simple as changing the size of the logo, and adjusting the CSS so the display fits the image size.
Now that we’ve made this change, it’s time to get into some more advanced customizations. [...]

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My, What a Big Header You Have!

February 24, 2010

Better to Eat You With My Dear
We just wanted to play around with some image replacement CSS techniques, so we went and installed a fairly large version of our logo.   So the header is  a little ostentatious, but it’s going to stay that way for a while.
We’ll make it a bit smaller and more [...]

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Denver SEO Blog After 2nd Mods

Added Blue Sidebar to Denver SEO Blog

February 19, 2010

Simple Style Changes That Took Less Than 1 Minute
Edit the custom css file in 10 seconds to add a cool blue shading effect to the sidebar of this page.
Here’s all of the Steps and coding that it takes to add this effect:

Go to the Thesis Options >
Choose Custom File Editor >
Choose to Edit Custom.css >
Add [...]

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Denver SEO Blog After 1st Mods

Changes to the Denver SEO Blog

February 16, 2010

Just a Few Quick Modifications to change the look and feel…
Here’s what the Denver SEO Blog looks like now:
What Changes Did We Make?

Changed the hover color of the nav menu to a blue that we like
Moved the nav menu below the header
Adjusted the padding around the nav menu to line it up with the Title
Changed [...]

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