This also included developing a custom image viewer for displaying the company’s portfolio. The viewer was created using jQuery and can be maintained via an XML file.

The company hired me to create a simple web site and blog that could be easily maintained. I chose to develop the site using WordPress and then provided training on creating and maintaining the site and Blog.

I developed the spa’s new web site using a design provided to me by a design agency. The site is developed using WordPress and includes the ability to edit all content throughout the site directly within the WordPress administration interface.

The firm hired me to create a web site that included a Blog that could be easily maintained by the attorneys.

I assisted the fund in developing new branding, a web presence, and also a way to collect donations online. This included creating a standard logo for the fund, new letterhead, an e-mail marketing campaign, a new web site, and also setting the fund up with a PayPal account.

I also serve on the Board of Directors for the Fund.

These efforts resulted in a 3.75%+ CTR for all adds and a significant increase in sales.

My role was to create a new logo for the shop, design and launch the web site, and then assist in online marketing efforts. This included training the shop manager on how to create a Facebook fan page to promote the store.

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What does this plugin do?

Use this plugin in your WordPress site to place a weather forecast for any US location in a Page, Post, or within a sidebar.

Instructions

Installation

• Download and unarchive the plugin folder.
• Place the uncompressed weatherspider folder in your wp-content/plugins directory. You should end up with up wp-content/plugins/weatherspider/.
• On the Plugin page in your WordPress Administration area, activate the WeatherSpider plugin.

WeatherBug.com API Key

In order to use this plugin, you must first obtain an API key from WeatherBug.com.

1. Go to: http://developer.weatherbug.com/
2. Register for an account
3. Apply for an API key (be sure to get the REST key - not the GEO key)
4. Enter your API key in the field above and press the “Save Settings” button

Caching Weather Data

By default, the weather feed information for each zip code will be cached for 15 minutes. This prevents the widget from making uneccesary calls to WeatherBug.com for weather. You can turn caching off in the settings panel (though it is not recommended). You can also clear the cache manually by clicking the “Clear Cache” button.

Displaying in Pages and Posts

To display a weather forecast in a page or a post, you can use the [weatherspider] shortcode. The shortcode has four options, listed below.

• zip: The zip code of the location you want to show the forecasft for (default=90210).
• size:The size of the forecast display. Options are:
  • sm: 3 Day forecast, 200px wide (default)
  • med: 4 Day forecast, 250px wide
  • lg: 5 Day forecast, 300px wide
• showCurrent: Show the current temperature in the display. Options are: true, false (default=true)
• showForecast: Show the forecast in the display. Options are: true, false (default=true)

Example:

[weatherspider zip="02842" size="lg" showCurrent="false" showForecast="true"]

The Widget

If your theme is widget-enabled, you can add the WeatherSpider widget to any sidebar. Configuration is self-explanatory. Note that you can add multiple instances of the widget in your sidebar.

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What does this plugin do?

Winning.

Install this plugin and four things will happen:

1. You will replace the boring Hello Dolly quote in the admin section of WordPress with a much less boring random quote from Charlie Sheen.
2. You will have a widget that you can add to any sidebar that displays a quote from charlie sheen.
3. You will have the ability to add a random quote from Charlie Sheen to any post by using the short code [charlie sheen]
4. Your blog will have Tiger blood and Adonis DNA.

The way you render a partial view in Razor is by making the following call:

@Html.Partial("{ViewName}")

When you make this call, MVC3′s default Razor view engine looks for the view you specified in the following default locations:

~/Views/{1}/{0}.cshtml
~/Views/{1}/{0}.vbhtml
~/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/{0}.vbhtml

Note that {0} is the view name you specified and {1} is the Controller name (if specified).

If it does not find a view matching the name you specified in any of those directories, guess what? Yup, Yellow Screen of Death.

Well what if you wanted to store all of your partial views in a “Partials” directory within the “Views/Shared” folder? You could do this without a problem as long as you called your partial views from now on by prepending the view name with “Partials/”, like so:

@Html.Partial("Partials/{ViewName}")

This is of course perfectly OK, but what if you move your partial views in the future? You would then have to do a search and replace of code throughout your application.

A Better solution:

First, create your own view engine as a class in your Models directory, inheriting from the “RazorViewEngine” base class, store your view locations in a string array, and add your locations to the base PartialViewLocationFormats in your constructor like so:

public class MyViewEngine : RazorViewEngine
{

    private static string[] NewPartialViewFormats = new[] {
        "~/Views/{1}/Partials/{0}.cshtml",
        "~/Views/Shared/Partials/{0}.cshtml"
    };

    public MyViewEngine ()
    {
        base.PartialViewLocationFormats = base.PartialViewLocationFormats.Union(NewPartialViewFormats).ToArray();
    }

}

Then, in your global.asax file, in you Application_Start() method, add your view engine to the applications ViewEngines collection like so:

protected void Application_Start()
{
    AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
    RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
    ViewEngines.Engines.Add(new MyViewEngine());
}

Now, when you call a partial view in Razor with @Html.Partial(…), the locations you designated will be searched in addition to the default locations.