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The Kick Awesome Show: Episode 1

Monday, August 09, 2010 ~ 3:08 pm

Welcome to The Kick Awesome Show! That's right, Nate and I have decided we need to hang out more, so why not in front of a camera? We're going to attempt to talk about cool and interesting things every week so go hit that subscribe button now.

Being that this is our first shot the format's still up in the air a bit. But that's ok, we know you'll tell us what you love and don't love …

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It’s Conference Time!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 ~ 10:52 am

Hey Everyone! How’s it’s going? It’s been a while since we’ve posted as things have been silly crazy awesome busy, but we wanted to let you know about some of the super sweet conferences we are speaking at and/or just going to. Check the video:

 

Links to things in the video:

We are very excited to be speaking/attending these events and we would absolutely love to meet you there. Let us know in the comments if …

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Five Days of DesignHope

Thursday, March 11, 2010 ~ 5:06 pm

I’ll just come out and say it. DesignHope has taken way too long. What started as a great idea with support from some of the coolest companies out there turned into a long drawn out process that still isn’t finished. Scott, we’re sorry, man. I hope you haven’t minded being the guinea pig. We still have big plans for DesignHope, but obviously we need to get …

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Use ImageSizer to Scale Lightbox Gallery Images in ExpressionEngine

Friday, February 12, 2010 ~ 4:49 pm

I still remember the day I found the ImageSizer plugin from Lumis. "Holy crap, I can upload any file and this thing will crop it and resize it on the fly in multiple places throughout my whole ExpressionEngine site?" To say I was psyched would be an understatement.

We often use ImageSizer in conjunction with the FF Matrix FieldFrame field type to let users add as many images as they want with captions. Then we pull at the first one and give a link to …

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Creating a Tell-a-friend Pop-up Form with jQuery and ExpressionEngine

Thursday, December 10, 2009 ~ 5:59 pm

I recently had a reader ask about the pop-up contact forms and lightbox scripts we've used on some of our client sites - were they built into ExpressionEngine and how did we get them to work? Well the answer to the first question is generally no. EE lets you setup whatever js effects with whatever libraries you want. So can choose exactly how you use it. It really is a different way of thinking about putting together dynamic websites, especially if you're used to most of the other CMS's …

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Speaking at the ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 ~ 4:00 pm

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be doing a workshop at the ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference in Leiden, Netherlands October 22-23, 2009. I’m really excited about this trip because 1.) I’ve never been out of the country and 2.) The group of people at this conference are amazing. Honestly, I’m quite humbled by the lineup. How did I get to be invited again? I can’t even list them all here, but include household names …

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Front-End Design Conference Presentation Notes

Monday, August 03, 2009 ~ 10:26 am

Well, Nate and I made it back from our trek to the sunny St. Petersburg, FL and the Front-End Design Conference where I was a speaker. Let me tell you right now; we both had a great time. Dan Denney (@webdesignfanboy) went all out for his first event and went out of his way to make us feel welcome. From the coffee cups with our cartoon characters printed on it to the swank afterparty, we …

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ExpressionEngine Giving Free Licenses at Front-End Design Conference

Thursday, June 04, 2009 ~ 10:18 am

Just another reason to come to the Front-End Design Conference this year: ExpressionEngine will be giving away 5 EE Packages at my session on "Why ExpressionEngine is Great for Designers." Each package includes:

• 1 ExpressionEngine License
• 1 Discussion Forum License
• 1 Multiple Site Manager License (3 Sites)
• 1 Solspace Tag Module License

In addition to me speaking, Kevin Hale of Wufoo, Fabio Sasso of Zee Design Studio, …

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Setting Up Custom Category URL Structures in ExpressionEngine

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 ~ 3:48 pm

We just finished up a particularly fun project, Casillas, Inc. They're an amazing custom furniture maker in California. In an odd turn of events, we actually did very little design for the site and became the "backend guys" if you will. As we got into how we wanted the site to be structured we realized that because of the product names (all numbers) we needed to use the category that the product was part of in the URL structure. So for example it would read:

http://site.com/products/sofas/10-123/

And if …

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Favorite Projects of 2008

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 ~ 8:58 am

Raise your hand if you can't believe it's almost 2009 already. Yep I've got mine up! It's amazing how fast time flies when you're having fun. The last year has definitely been an interesting one, and we're looking forward to this next year with great expectation and excitement. I can honestly say that God has blessed us with the best jobs and families in the world. What more can a guy ask for?

I thought about writing some sort of "resolution" or goals post for the new year, but instead I …

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How We Use ExpressionEngine: Templates and Global Variables

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 ~ 11:58 am

Continuing in our series of how we use ExpressionEngine, I thought it would be cool to show you the power and flexibility of the templates in conjunction with global variables.

One of the main reasons we started using EE was it's flexibility. Other CMS's make you cram your design into their pre-defined templates and make you dig around in huge PHP files. Not so with EE! We code every site from scratch by hand, first creating a static version …

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How We Use ExpressionEngine: Add-Ons

Thursday, December 11, 2008 ~ 12:09 pm

In case you hadn't noticed, we love ExpressionEngine. Some may consider it an unnatural love, but we don't care. The flexibility and plain english programming is head and shoulders above everything else.

Lately we've been coming across some awesome plugins, extensions and modules that extend the functionality of EE even farther, and we had to share them with you. Most of these are free, but I know many of the developers take donations. If you find these useful, consider helping them …

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When Is A Content Management System Needed?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 ~ 9:02 am

Wait, what’s a Content Management System (CMS)? Well, according to Wikipedia, it’s a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. We, for example, use ExpressionEngine as our CMS of choice. And no, I’m not going to get into why it’s so awesome right now. Go check it out for yourself.

So back to the point; when is it time to use a CMS? We’ve worked on several small websites lately and our customers decided they didn’t want the upfront …

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A Non-Profit’s Guide to Websites

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ~ 9:33 am

Non-profit organizations have a special place in our hearts here at FortySeven Media. We love it when people decide to change their world for the better, and do our best to help them however we can. Several months ago we completed the Knoxville Leadership Foundation's new website. Shortly there after Dan Myers, the Director of Communications and Operations at KLF, asked us to be part of a seminar for non-profit organizations to better equip them to use their websites. The following is a condensed version of that …

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Mac OS X Leopard ExpressionEngine Folder Icon

Thursday, March 27, 2008 ~ 10:27 am

Here’s a little goodie for you ExpressionEngine developers on Leopard. A pretty folder icon to put all your plugins, modules, extensions, etc… in.

Quick rundown for those who don’t know how to change folder icons:

1. Select the folder who’s icon you want to change.

2. Right Click and select “Get Info” or press “Command - I.”

3. Select the eeicon folder and do the same.

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Encode Your Email Addresses in ExpressionEngine

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 ~ 5:23 pm

So here’s a quick tip for you ExpressionEngine users. EE will automatically encode any email addresses that are generated by itself. For example, when you leave a comment on this blog and put in your email address, EE will turn it into a mess of javascript nonsense in the code so that those nasty spiders don’t pick up your email and send you dirty emails.

Sometimes you’ve got to manually encode it, though and that’s where this quick tutorial comes in.

Ready? Here we go:

{encode="bob@bobby.com" title="Email Me!"}

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Auto Navigation Highlighting in ExpressionEngine

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 ~ 4:35 pm

We’ve been using this technique for a while now and it works great! We always take the most used parts of a site and put them in templates for easy access when putting together a site. But what happens when you want to highlight the navigation to show the user where they’re at? Enter this cool trick! And yes, you have to be using ExpressionEngine .

Alright, say this is your navigation code:

<ul>
  <li><a class="current" href="./">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="dont_hire/">Don’t …

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