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A Facebook Content Management System (CMS) for Facebook Page Templates

03.23.2010 10:58PM by Evan Johnson

Update:The project now has a name, and a website! Head over to Faceil.com to learn more and get updates.

There's something big in the works here at Chili Pepper Design I wanted to share on my blog quickly:

Coming Soon: A Facebook Fan Page CMS

Right now the social networking site Facebook is quickly becoming the king of the web. Some sources claim that Facebook has passed Google as the...

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Insert Flash Media Embed Code TinyMCE Plugin

03.22.2010 02:19PM by Evan Johnson

I’ve run into a problem providing my clients good, easy-to-use media embed functionality with the existing JavaScript WYSIWYG editors. The big players, CKEditor (formery FCKEditor) and TinyMCE both provide a "Flash" button which works okay with YouTube and other large video providers, but what about embedding a Picasa slideshow? None of the WYSIWYG editors come with plugin to just insert some HTML code....

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Learning Drupal Module Dev: Dependent AHAH/AJAX Forms

03.21.2010 11:32PM by Evan Johnson

So, I've been working on a simple module for a Drupal project lately. I wanted to have two administrator settings for the module, the second of which depends on the first. A "dependent dropdown". It would be cool if it was "AJAXy" too, I thought. Well, it just so turns out that in Drupal 6 there are built in AHAH (Asychronous HTML and HTTP) functions in the Forms API...

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Easy SEO: +2,500% page views from a year of casual blogging?

03.03.2010 10:35PM by Evan Johnson

You know, you always read in SEO articles about how important blogging is for increasing traffic. It’s one of the top suggestions around for improving a website’s search engine juice. Well, I am here to testify that it truly is a great SEO tool.

Granted, the title of this post is hyperbolic link-bait. ;) But it’s true nonetheless!

I’ve had this site, http://chilipepperdesign.com, up for probably five years now...

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