<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>Web design, print design, and photography &#124; the blog and portfolio of Focus97</title> <atom:link href="http://www.focus97.com/blog/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator> <item><title>Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Dead</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/search-engine-optimization-seo-is-dead/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/search-engine-optimization-seo-is-dead/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:47:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Web design & Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[web development]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com:/blog/?p=490</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ok, SEO is not completely dead. But it&#8217;s growing old, and it&#8217;s increasingly covered in cobwebs. Troves of snake-oil salesmen vying to sell you an SEO package would like you to believe otherwise. Here&#8217;s my take: I have sat in countless meetings with clients &#8211; prospective and current, large and small &#8211; to discuss Search [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/search-engine-optimization-seo-is-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Keep stylesheets and jQuery files fresh without forcing refresh</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/keep-stylesheets-and-jquery-files-fresh-without-forcing-refresh/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/keep-stylesheets-and-jquery-files-fresh-without-forcing-refresh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:43:55 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Web design & Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[HTML]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jQuery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=457</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ever make changes to a client&#8217;s website &#8211; whether to the stylesheet or the jQuery powering the site &#8211; then send a link and ask them to refresh? It happens a fair amount for clients that love to see fresh changes. And it happens here in the Focus97 kingdom as well. I make changes to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/keep-stylesheets-and-jquery-files-fresh-without-forcing-refresh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Video for Operation Rainbow</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/video-for-operation-rainbow/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/video-for-operation-rainbow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:13:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=443</guid> <description><![CDATA[New video to benefit Operation Rainbow. This is from our recent trip to Cuenca, Ecuador. Video produced in collaboration with Josh Levy, with final editing assistance from Amanda Mathson. Like and Share - Operation Rainbow needs it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/video-for-operation-rainbow/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Create a vertical skills graph with simple CSS and jQuery</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/create-a-vertical-skills-graph-with-simple-css-and-jquery/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/create-a-vertical-skills-graph-with-simple-css-and-jquery/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:12:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Web design & Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jQuery]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=416</guid> <description><![CDATA[Chances are, if you're a designer or developer, you run across design sites where people tout their skills using a fun graph.  Sometimes they're simply rendered in static HTML, but the cool ones are animated using Javascript. (Yes, the animated ones are the 'cool' ones.)]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/create-a-vertical-skills-graph-with-simple-css-and-jquery/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Cuenca 2011 with Operation Rainbow</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/cuenca-2011-with-operation-rainbow/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/cuenca-2011-with-operation-rainbow/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:10:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=393</guid> <description><![CDATA[the FACE OF Operation Rainbow This is why we do this. The story behind this little boy is what makes us stop for a second and hold our breath.  His name is Roberto, and in the above image he&#8217;d been waiting in line in the hospital with his mother and father for 7 hours.  With [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/cuenca-2011-with-operation-rainbow/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>11</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Solo in Desolation Wilderness, round two: Summit atop Pyramid Peak</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/solo-in-desolation-wilderness-round-two-summit-atop-pyramid-peak/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/solo-in-desolation-wilderness-round-two-summit-atop-pyramid-peak/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:20:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[backpacking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[triumph]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=369</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mountains are not easy to climb.  The summit is not easy to reach.  Climbing at high altitude with a heavy pack on your back is in most every way a continually strenuous, at times grueling activity. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/solo-in-desolation-wilderness-round-two-summit-atop-pyramid-peak/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Solo winter backpacking adventure: Horsetail falls into Desolation Wilderness.</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/miscellaneous/solo-winter-backpacking-adventure-horsetail-falls-into-desolation-wilderness/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/miscellaneous/solo-winter-backpacking-adventure-horsetail-falls-into-desolation-wilderness/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:15:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category> <category><![CDATA[backpacking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=321</guid> <description><![CDATA[This post is a bit of a departure from the usual photography/web development/tech ramblings, but so be it. note: click any image for a larger view I decided&#8230; &#8230;That it would be a good idea to go against summitpost.org&#8217;s, as well as the park ranger&#8217;s advice not to venture up Horsetail Falls in the winter.  [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/miscellaneous/solo-winter-backpacking-adventure-horsetail-falls-into-desolation-wilderness/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DPI (dots per inch) explained: How many do I need, and what is it anyway?</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/dpi-dots-per-inch-explained-how-much-do-i-need-and-what-is-it-anyway/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/dpi-dots-per-inch-explained-how-much-do-i-need-and-what-is-it-anyway/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:49:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dpi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[resolution]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=292</guid> <description><![CDATA[What is this term DPI (dots per inch), really? It&#8217;s a measure of how many dots will be printed per inch.  Keyword: printed. DPI, contrary to many ideas around it, does absolutely nothing when it&#8217;s set in Photoshop for images that are displayed on the web. Take a hypothetical image of 100 x 100 pixels [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/photography/dpi-dots-per-inch-explained-how-much-do-i-need-and-what-is-it-anyway/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>WordPress nav, solved: How to list child pages only for the current Parent page</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/wordpress-nav-solved-how-to-list-child-pages-only-for-current-parent-page/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/wordpress-nav-solved-how-to-list-child-pages-only-for-current-parent-page/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:51:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Web design & Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.focus97.com/blog/?p=245</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Problem: You have a 3-tiered navigational hierarchy, like above. If you click on mainPage-a, you only want the 3 child Pages to show. But if you click to dive into Page1, you still want to show the three child Pages of mainPage-a, but also want Page1&#8242;s subpages to show, but ONLY those subpages. For [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/web-design-and-development/wordpress-nav-solved-how-to-list-child-pages-only-for-current-parent-page/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>16</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>iPhone 5, the iPhone 4 killer: First impressions… wait, the 5?!</title><link>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/technology/iphone-5-first-impressions-of-the-5/</link> <comments>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/technology/iphone-5-first-impressions-of-the-5/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mike Lee</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[iphone 4]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category> <category><![CDATA[review]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.focus97.com/?p=199</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yeah, just kidding.  It&#8217;s only the iPhone 4, alas.  But here&#8217;s my relatively informal review, 24 hours in. While standing in the &#8220;reservations&#8221; line yesterday morning for 3.5 hours, seeing many happy customers coming out sporting the  new fancy gizmo, I looked at it and wondered if I was going to have buyer&#8217;s remorse. I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.focus97.com:/blog/technology/iphone-5-first-impressions-of-the-5/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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