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		<title>Jacquei Essex: Artist in Spain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jacquei needed a showcase&#8230; This project began with a simple gallery added onto the client&#8217;s genealogy site over at Bennett- Essex Genealogy for the purpose of displaying the artist&#8217;s new photography work. As she made a name for herself through her creative works, Jacquei Essex decided it was time to launch a website in her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/06/jacquei-essex-in-spain/</link>
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		<title>Honeymaker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My, what golden haunches you have&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/06/honeymaker/</link>
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		<title>Bookjacket Detective Revised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I discussed vintage book jackets as inspiration for page layouts since many are royalty free and easily found in the public domain. Here&#8217;s an example of the same book jacket revised as a genealogy page layout: Side by side smaller views:]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/05/bookjacket-detective-revised/</link>
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		<title>RSS feed in TNG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running thru validation on core TNG files I discovered the tngrss.php file had a small error flagged by the W3C Feed Validation Service, which stated: &#8220;This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.&#8221; Correction can be made by opening the tngrss.php and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/04/rss-feed-in-tng/</link>
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		<title>TNG Event Map Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The personal details of our ancestors lives transform their genealogy into a family history. In TNG, these details of biographical or historical interest can be added to the an individual person&#8217;s page through addition of custom event types. From the Edit view of the person&#8217;s page, the administrator can create Events under &#8220;Other Events&#8221;. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/02/tng-event-map-details/</link>
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		<title>At font-face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;last week I mentioned here that I love typography. While Internet Explorer (IE) has supported the @font-face rule since v4.0. support was limited to embedded Open-Type fonts.  While restricting browser support to embedded Open-Type fonts put limits on it&#8217;s use, the method of  rendering a typeface on a web page by linking to a font [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/02/at-font-face/</link>
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		<title>Old Bookjacket Detective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Old bookjackets are a great resource for page layout inspiration. The artwork is royalty free and examples are easily found in the public domain. I ran across this one a while back and loved the simple landscape shapes of the tree near a cabin near which stands a cock crowing at the sunrise. Peaceful and well-placed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/01/old-bookjacket-detective/</link>
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		<title>TNG Drop menus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Humans feel more comfortable when they know what to expect. They&#8217;re more relaxed within familiar surroundings. With a little planning it&#8217;s possible to make them feel right at Home on each and every page of a website. Drop menus exist by default in the upper right corner of most core TNG pages. These menus organize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/01/tng-drop-menus/</link>
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		<title>TNG Page Layouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large part of my work consists of customizing genealogy websites powered by TNG. While TNG is a powerful application for bringing one&#8217;s genealogy to the web, the display and layout of pages &#8220;out of the box&#8221; is somewhat outdated with respect to web standards. I&#8217;ve been using TNG since 2004 and the page layouts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2010/01/tng-page-layouts/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The TNG Two Minute Install&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TNGv7.1 release The latest version of The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNGv7.1) was released today. In the previous post I mentioned writing a series on modifications to the out-of-the-box installation so I created a new database and uploaded the files for this release. This version includes an &#8220;Express Installation&#8221;. After FTP&#8217;ing all the files [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/05/tngv71-release/</link>
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		<title>Husing in the United States</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a major project over at Husing.org. I had free reign on the site, so chose to couple WordPress and TNG. I used the incredible ThemeHybrid for the framework in WordPress and it&#8217;s a joy to work with. Inspiration for the color scheme came a simple question to the owner, &#8220;What&#8217;s your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/04/husing-in-the-united-states/</link>
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		<title>TNGTarski</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finishing up a project over at Koen Colpaert&#8220;s new &#8220;stamboom&#8221;. Coen had asked me to work up a custom TNG layout to match WordPress &#8220;Tarski&#8221; theme. The main WordPress page as rendered by the Tarski theme looks like this: We skipped the TNG homepage and directed the &#8220;Genealogy&#8221; link to TNG&#8217;s surname page instead. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/04/tngtarski/</link>
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		<title>Tarski Default Color Palette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on styling TNG with the default WordPress Tarski theme. Here&#8217;s the color palette from ColorZilla: #e5cfd2 -mauve #a8001c -red #006a80 -turquoise #cfe2e5 &#8211; sky blue # 8fbf60 -lime green # ece9d8 -concrete gray One major issue was the default Tarski #wrapper 760px fixed width. Because much of the data in TNG is laid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/02/tarski-default-color-palette/</link>
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		<title>TNG Color Scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favorite FireFox plugin of all time, ColorZilla, now has the ability to analyze the colors of a web page and create a corresponding palette. Here&#8217;s a sampling of out of the box color scheme for TNG  pages with default styles governed by genstyle.css: I&#8217;m not sure what the rhyme or reason was for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/02/tng-color-scheme/</link>
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		<title>Generations Gone By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post back in September of 2008, I mentioned my work over at Generations Gone By but we&#8217;ve done a lot of small things since then to continuously update the look of this genealogy site. This site was initially built with the Template 4 design included with TNG. When Sharon Randall approached me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2009/01/generations-gone-by/</link>
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		<title>Country codes &#8211; ISO 3166 Standard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The benefit of following a standard is that everyone who uses it understands it&#8217;s definition. Information sharing is enhanced when everyone is on the same page. Confusion is minimized when we don&#8217;t have to reinvent the wheel. Symbols and codes are natural candidates for standardization because they represent larger entities in a compact form. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/12/country-codes-iso-3166-standard/</link>
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		<title>Barrier to BS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great article on using the internet for research: Searching the web to find responsible, verifiable, genuine information of the professional or educational kind is a skill. Like all skills, it’s an acquired one.Searching and Teaching Your Kids to Research]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/09/barrier-to-bs/</link>
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		<title>PHP Best Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Practices for high grade PHP programming: 10 Principals of the PHP Masters]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/09/php-best-practices/</link>
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		<title>Google map pins in TNG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on a project with a Sharon over at Generations Gone By who has a special affinity for the &#8220;Places&#8221; category of her family history. The addition of GoogleMap functionality to TNG fueled the fire of this inspiration. There was a need for more place pins&#8230; In TNG&#62;Admin&#62;Setup&#62;Map Settings&#62;Help:Map Settings Place Levels Pins: Labels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/09/googlemap-tng/</link>
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		<title>Web Page Content Evaluation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you visit a web page how do you know the if information correct and valid? An excellent reference and mini-workshop for Web Page Evaluation is Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask published by the UC Berkeley Library. From the page: In the general World Wide Web there are no editors (unlike most print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/05/web-page-evaluation/</link>
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		<title>Managing Registered Users in TNG</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am the only administrator for my TNG database. As such, I feel it is my responsibility to oversee user registration. All registered users must prove relationship with a name in my database in order to gain access to view &#8220;living&#8221; information. I have a few tricks to handle registered users which you may find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wild-type.com/2008/05/managing-registered-users/</link>
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