Yesterday, Snap.com announced the version of their popular Snap Preview Anywhere feature had been upgraded and renamed to Snap Shots. Containing some elements from ideas garnered from their recent contest (including mine, it seems), the new system allows for several custom “shots” to be used instead of just thumbnails. For example, I can link directly [...]

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I started renting a PO box at the local post office a couple months ago. This was mostly because, more and more, I’m needing to use an address for my side business Coffey Design. Since I work out of the home, I didn’t really like the idea of putting my home address on registry information, [...]

I needed to drop a simple contact form on a client’s WordPress site and tried to find the “Contact Form” plug-in I’ve used a few times before. As I was searching, I came upon a modified version put together by Douglas Karr. → WordPress Contact Form with Spam Protection This version adds a simple challenge [...]

Actually, it was called an “extreme makeover” contest, but it was basically a fun way to cull some great ideas from the user community about how to improve Snap.com‘s Preview Anywhere feature for website owners. SPA is a great service that I enjoy using, so I gave it a shot and won. The contest ran [...]

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