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Silas Notes

Silas+Trinet

Posted by Duncan on February 15, 2007

Many of you have already heard Silas Partners and Trinet Internet Solutions have joined together to form one combined company. Many people may be asking what does this mean for me?

If you are a client than this means we will be able to serve you even better than before. Silas Partners and Trinet possess highly talented and committed teams, our respective skills and abilities are complementary in many ways. The coming together of Silas Partners and Trinet allows us to offer our clients greater depth of expertise across a broader range of services.
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Catasrophemail?

Changes, they are a-coming.
Posted by Doug Nelson on January 11, 2007
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Some corners of the web-design community are up in arms about a recent Microsoft decision to dump the current HTML email engine for Outlook 2007, instead adopting an outdated and flawed engine based on, no, really, Microsoft Word. What’s on the chopping block? Consistent support for background images and colors, nice margins, and overall control of object placement and spacing inside emails. If the rumors are all true, a lot of emails are going to start looking bad, and a lot of email designers are going to be tearing out their hair.

More after the jump:
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Viral Pigment Power Opportunity

Posted by michael on January 10, 2007

Coloring Screen samplePeople want the pigment power. It is a primal instinct exposed through the child development years, this need to choose the crayon of one’s choice to color. I cannot remember hearing an adult chastise me for coloring a tree purple with crayons but I can trace my early works of art from purple trees to green trees. It happened to us all, this sad day when authority took away our color freedom. THE TREE MUST BE GREEN they scolded! Forget the fact that trees are orange or yellow in the autumn. Forget that your classmate Lulu ate your green crayon. Forget it all. You must adhere to society’s coloring guidelines - adhere they tell you! Make sure your pillow sheets match the comforter they tell you. Those pants don’t match those shoes they tell you.

Understanding the drain of giving up one’s power to color the world the way they want, Silas Partners developed an Read more >>

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Customizing WordPress Templates

Posted by Joe on December 19, 2006
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I’ve been doing a bunch of work with WordPress lately, mostly customizing templates and writing plugins to make it work more like a “real” content management system (CMS), rather than just a simple blogging platform.

Rather than try to explain all the technical details of what I did (I hate doing documentation), I thought I’d just show some examples from two sites that I recently worked on, GraceDC and Langham Partnership International. In this post, I’ll focus on some of the design and template related modifications I made to WordPress’ templating system to make the sites look and behave like the way they do.
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