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In this sitdown of "FS Interviews:" we pull up a chair with reknowned blogger and designer Michael Martin of Pro Blog Design. We discuss what makes blogs work, his favorite project he's ever worked on, most visited sites, and the creative process behind designing a kickass website.

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Happy birthday day everybody! It's Fire Studios' sixth birthday and we're celebrating with a brand spanking new design! But that's not all! We're also redirecting our content focus to a more teaching view! Granted, that last part doesn't sound too exciting, but I promise it will mean much more interesting content coming from FS from now on!

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A couple of days ago I showed you how to make a category menu. In this post I'm going to show you how to create an even more advanced version of the same function, that not only has all the same features, but also includes the ability to be sorted into a different order.

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Here's a short (15 minute) screencast from Fire G detailing everything that's going on here at FS during 2010. I talk about the 6th birthday special event, address the activity of the site, discuss my recent endeavors, and review my work for the past year both on and off site.

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One of the most common features on any blog or website is category highlighting showing you which category you're in or the page is in. Wordpress, by default, does not have a function to do this. Thus it's up to us developers to write our own custom functions to do this, and that's exactly what's I'm going to be teaching you in this tutorial.

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With an ever increasing amount of content building on your Wordpress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.

This is a Nettuts +Tut.

While reading though some twitter updates this morning, I stumbled across one that was asking if anyone knew a way to exclude a specific category in Wordpress from the loop, unless it was certian page template. After a quick minute of thinking, I came up with this small function that will do just that.

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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 offering it up as a free Wordpress theme for you guys!

Abstraction is a simple typography based theme with some decorative elements thrown in to class it up a bit.

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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.

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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.

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