APA Style uses a unique headings system to separate and classify paper sections. There are 5 heading levels in APA. The 6th edition of the APA manual revises and simplifies previous heading guidelines. Regardless of the number of levels, always use the headings in order, beginning with level 1. The format of each level is illustrated above. Continue reading
I have created an APA 6 template for MS Word that I wanted for my own research writing. I am sharing it here with you.
Click here to download the APA 6 Word Template file This is a file for Word 2007/2008. Continue reading
I was so looking forward to Google’s April Fool’s Joke this year. They have had some good jokes over the years including Google Romance, Google TiSP, and Gmail Paper. But today’s joke is not funny and rather self promoting for their new broadband experiment for big cities. They are calling themselves Topeka for the day.
This name change is due to Topeka temporarily changing their name to Google in hopes of getting onto the Google free broadband wagon. Too bad.
I really think that Google could have done a better job at a time when people need a good laugh. So many are out of work, the economy sucks, and natural disasters are causing havoc with real people’s lives. Come on Google! The day is not over! You can give us another joke!
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text. Continue reading
Ark Recovery needed their site updated, and I was tasked with creating a PHP contact form. The PHP needed a lot of custom coding because the form submission needs to be emailed to the company and a custom email needs to be sent back to the form submitter. The information is also submitted to a new MySQL database.
I also created custom CSS to style the form so it looks nice. I implemented the JQuery Valiation plugin to ensure that required fields are filled in before form submission.
I have installed a Buddypress installation for a client wanting to create a community blog. I also installed BBPress for community forum posts.
Buddypress extends WordPress so it can be used as a social networking site. It is like having your own Facebook-type website that hosts a family site or a community interest of some sort. You can set up group discussions and activities, and you can allow community blogging. With some expert help, you can seamlessly integrate BBPress to allow forum posts.
Elan Woman is now using a WordPress theme for their magazine’s companion website. This theme was a challenge because it needed to integrate multiple types of JavaScript image galleries. Different JavaScript solutions are difficult because they can easily interfere with each other and easily interfere with the WordPress built-in scripts.
I also spent a lot of time consulting and helping Rebecca Servoss of Persnickety Graphics as she implemented the site update.
I coded the new WordPress theme for Startup Princess. This site needed improved navigation and Search Engine Optimization. This is a smart theme that uses multiple, custom sidebars and a custom home page. There is so much to this website, that more information needed to be “findable” and easily accessed by users. All this specialized coding is very complex within a WordPress theme.
Jakob Nielsen’s and Kara Pernice’s new book on “Eyetracking Web Usability” has proven some ideas for necessary element placement on your web pages. This book shows eyetracking data on the most important elements that you should place on all your web pages and where to place them. Continue reading
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There are several characters that you cannot type directly into HTML. You must use code to represent those characters. you can use either the entity number or the entity name in your code. Continue reading
