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	<title>Fire Studios</title>
	<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog</link>
	<description>Become A Guru</description>
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		<title>Abstraction &#8211; A Free WP Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first got into coding, I started out making themes for Invision Power Board 1.3 using primarily CSS. I then branched out and started making some free HTML templates (I was shocked at my coding honestly). I've since gone back and updated everything to standards and made it fully cross-browser compatible and am now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/abstraction-a-free-wp-theme</link>
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		<title>Coding Fire-G.com &#8211; a time-lapse video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so last weekend I finally got around to coding my personal site over at Fire-G.com and decided to screen-capture it all to show you guys!
I would have posted this sooner, but it took 20 hours for my 7.5 hour video to render. Then it took another 6 hours to render after I sped it up.

See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/coding-fire-g-com-a-time-lapse-video</link>
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		<title>Search By Category &#8211; WP Plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Search by Category allows your visitor to select which category they want to search your blog inside of. This allows visitors to find the exact article they're looking for and helps increase viewer loyalty.

Where to Download
Download Search By Category
How to use

Download and install the plugin
Configure the options
Edit your Theme file to include this code where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/search-by-category</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Plugin Templates v2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that long ago I released my Wordpress Plugin Templates and they were greatly received by you all. Through this wide spread attraction, it was inevitable that a flaw would be found and some improvements be suggested. So I took these suggestions and an idea I had, and updated these templates to allow for less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-templates-v2</link>
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		<title>Best Tools of the Trade: Web Developer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a web developer, I've gone through my fair share of programs for me to do my work in, and not all Apps are made the same. So here's a list of the best software and tools that help you get the job done, and get it done right.

Coding
phpDesigner 2008 (Windows only) ~ Free or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/best-tools-of-the-trade-web-developer</link>
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		<title>Even More Advanced Thumbnail Selection in Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 3 weeks ago I did a screencast on how to build a dynamic thumbnail selector for Wordpress. When I wrote that function, I noticed that if the post was in more than 1 of the specified categories, then it choose the first one (alphabetically). This bothered me enough that today I devised a system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/even-more-advanced-thumbnail-selection-in-wordpress</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Plugin Templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wordpress plugins have become my new addiction in the WP environment, thus I've noticed that I'm using the same few beginning steps every time. This led me to create a template file so that I just open, edit, and continue on my merry way of coding my plugin. I'm posting these templates for free use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/wordpress-plugin-templates</link>
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		<title>My first Typography Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I gave my self the challenge to create a motion typography video (sometimes called kinetic typography). I decided to go with the song "No Handlebars by the Flobots" since I quite enjoy the song (I think it's the trumpet). My original goal was to do the whole song over the course of 4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/my-first-typography-video</link>
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		<title>Optimizing the &#8220;Google Syntax Highlighter&#8221; WP plugin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Syntax Highlighter may be Wordpress' most popular syntax highlighter plugin, but it's not the most efficient. With plenty of extra JavaScript and sloppy PHP writing, it's quite the bloat-ware if left unchecked. So here's 2 fixes showing how to put GSH on a diet and still get all the features of the plugin.

Fix 1: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/optimizing-the-google-syntax-highlighter-wp-plugin</link>
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		<title>Weekday Tip: 9 Ultra-useful Wordpress Plugins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No Wordpress blog is complete (or even fully functional) with a healthy arsenal of plugins in it's repertoire. So here are 9 ultra-useful plugins to use on every blog setup you configure.

1.) Akismet – 
The almighty spam filter pre-packaged by Wordpress.

2.) Clean Archives Reloaded – 
Best archive display plugin hands down.

3.) Google Syntax Highlighter – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/weekday-tip-9-ultra-useful-wordpress-plugins</link>
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		<title>What are &#8220;Weekday Tips&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's no secret that we've started a new series on FS called "Weekday Tips" and it's been incredibly successful even though it has only been 2 weeks since it started. So here's a video talking about what it is and how it works and also what all is happening behind the scenes here at FS.


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		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/what-are-weekday-tips</link>
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		<title>Advanced Wordpress Thumbnail Selection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thumbnails in Wordpress themes are a critical part of relaying the topic or aspect of the article/post you've written. With some simple tricks you can add your own to your theme, and there are even plugins out there to do it for you. The fact of the matter is that these systems you have in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/advanced-wordpress-thumbnail-generation</link>
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		<title>Weekday Tip: Wordpress Conditional Tags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Wordpress' conditional tags are by far one of the most useful and unglorified tools for theme and plugin development. Here's a list of all the tags.
The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/weekday-tip-wordpress-conditional-tags</link>
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		<title>Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Font
The font property is, with exception of some system fonts, a shorthand property for setting all of the properties for a font in one declaration. These declarations go in order of font-style, font-variant, font-weight, font-size/line-height, font-family. Below is a chart showing values can be used in each section.


p {font: [style] [variant] [weight] [size]/[line-height] [family], [family];}


Font-style: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/weekday-tip-css-shorthand-pt3</link>
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		<title>Weekday Tip: CSS Shorthand pt.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background
The background property is a shorthand property for setting all background properties in one declaration. The order of declarations is background-color, background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment, and then background-position. Remember that default values for these properties are not set.


body {background: #[hex-color] url([image URL]) [repeat] [attachment] [position];}


Background-color:

Color name (black)
HEX number (#000000)
RGB value (rgb(0,0,0 ))
Transparent

Background-image:

URL
None

Background-repeat:

Repeat-x (horizontally)
Repeat-y (vertically)
Repeat (both)
No-repeat

Background-attachment:

Fixed
Scroll

Background-position:

top left
top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fire-studios.com/blog/weekday-tip-css-shorthand-pt2</link>
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