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Case Study: Customized Google Map

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

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I have used iframes to display the location of an office before on previous websites, but I really wanted to take it a step further with Google Maps on a recent website update for one of my clients. 
Here are some of the key points of what I wanted to accomplish with my new & improved [...]

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Ensure your end user has a secure connection with ASP .NET

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

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Easy, short code snippet to detect the presence of a secure user connection using ASP .NET.
How do you accomplish this using other web programming languages like php and cgi?

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Use CSS for SEO and mobile friendly headings

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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Fancy graphics and sweet design effects are great for website headers and section titles.
But what about text browsers, search engine crawlers, and mobile phones?
Uh oh…no graphics = no idea what the heck is going on at your website!
Never fear! Text-indentation is here!
Use this CSS technique to ensure you keep the simple browsers and crawlers in mind.

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