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Monthly Archives: August 2009

August Wrap-Up

NEW BOOKS:
PAMELA PALMER’s third book in her hot Feral Warriors series, Passion Untamed released at the end of August. WEBSITE BONUS: Pamela’s new Bulletin Board devoted to all things paranormal is growing. Check it out!

LL FOSTER’s third and final book in the popular SERVANT series, SERVANT: The Kindred arrived in bookstores in late August. [...]

Eloisa James’s Design-a-Duchess Challenge

We are pre-empting our customary month-end Wrap-Up to bring you a fabulous online design feature.
Eloisa James’s Paper Doll extravaganza.

It would be special enough just to have access to these gorgeous paper dolls. But Eloisa turned it into a DESIGN CONTEST. Eloisa and her daughter made the gorgeous doll seen right here. But when you DOWNLOAD [...]

Tuesday Tech: staying in the current

I consider myself a rather tech-savvy person. I first started learning to program (using BASIC) when I was ten on my father’s Osborne 1. My proudest accomplishment on that dinosaur was a randomizing fortune-telling program (”You will soon sprout yak horns!”… “Don’t look now, there is someone behind you!”… “I predict you will turn this [...]

We have abandoned IE6

We recently stopped testing new sites in Internet Explorer 6. Why? Two reasons: First, it’s just an awful browser. We end up having to take perfectly lovely code and add hours of hacks just to make a site function at a passable level on IE6. And secondly: budget. It is a colossal waste of client resources [...]

Twitter Terminology @elizabethyarnel

Twitter was a whole new world for me. Learning my way around was intimidating at first. This Twitter glossary, compiled by Elizabeth Yarnell on her Recipes for Publicity blog, certainly helped. I recommend bookmarking it. Elizabeth finishes off her list with a link to even more resources.

We now post our Tweets on our home page [...]

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