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A new portfolio solution in more than one place.

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Ever since I started to focus on Berchman.com I realized that my former “company” website, HamiltonBerchman Design Group, Inc., was no longer maintained, correct, or relevant. However, at the time I was fortunately too busy to even think about doing anything to the site. Then one day I was doing research on a project and [...]

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Where have I been?

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I have been busy on many projects recently. What is great is I am ready to share them and the new things I’ve learned with Thesis and WordPress. My two most recent projects made me push my personal envelope of what I thought was possible within the WordPress/Thesis environment. Not that I’ve ever had any [...]

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WordPress + Thesis Tutorial: Finding and fixing phantom spacing on your web page

February 26, 2010

I came across something while working with WordPress and Thesis that I know will help at least one person and possibly save them hours of frustration. So here is the tutorial. I was working on a revision to a visual layout of a website I previously helped develop on the Thesis theme framework. I spent more [...]

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New Web Site Published

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Today was a big day of sorts. I completed design and development work on new website. It is a custom designed website in form and function. It’s a significantly modified version of Thesis [ #thesiswp ] running on the latest install of WordPress (presently 2.9.1). The site is http://www.ckwrites.com I learned a great deal more about [...]

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Thesis Tutorial: Funky Header Navigation

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Sometimes one has the need to create a custom, or “funky” header navigation and today is the day for me. So I thought I would document the process of what I do to help you with a custom navigation challenge. We want to create a vertical navigation as is seen below in the previous version [...]

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Thesis 1.6 Out of Beta

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DIYThemes has unleashed the final version of Thesis 1.6. While the beta has been out for weeks I never downloaded it from a combination of busyness and being prudent. How many times have you been burned for being an early adopter? For me too many, so in the words of Yoda, “Patient you must be.”

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A good week for links

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Over the past week I have been humbled and honored by two different websites.

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WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom Google Search Engine

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One of the things you always want to provide visitors to your website is a good search tool. The default search tool that comes standard with WordPress is adequate. However, if your website covers a topic, or area of topics, or you have a Google AdSense account, you can take advantage of Google’s Custom Search [...]

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