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Hey Everyone! After searching endlessly for the chords for Ben Dunn’s awesome song “Heart Strings” I decided to just figure them out myself. To all you fellow guitarists out there, please email me or leave a comment if you have any corrections… I’m no ace when it comes to guitar it’s entirely possible that I was wrong about some of the chords.

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Greetings Dancers! Sarah Skinner (featured performer and instructor with World Dance New York http://worlddancenewyork.com) will not only be joining us for Shimmies for the Cure Part 2, but she will be teaching a workshop on Romantic Veils. Sarah is incredibly talented in her usage of veil in dance, I’ve seen her many times and she’s one of the best out there!

Veil dance is one of the most glamorous and visually stunning genres of belly Dance. Its expressive language conveys a wide range of moods – mysterious, romantic, celebratory, spiritual, meditative. Sarah Skinner, creator of Belly Dance with Veil DVD and Seven Veils DVD, shares her…

MailChimp embeds a number of codes by default when you use their pre-generated “embed code”. These scripts are very useful as they allow error-checking, validation, and other custom messages that happen within your MailChimp subscribe box on your website. This is much more professional than sending the user to the MailChimp page for your list, which is ideally themed to match your page but still, not as professional.

What I just learned was that the reason for my JavaScript conflict was that I was calling jQuery and a number of other scripts at the top of my document. By moving them to the bottom, it allows the MailChimp scripts to resolve and then jQuery and other scripts get called last,…

While working on a project I found that the Fancybox buttons used to “navigate left”, “navigate right”, and “close” the Fancybox overlay, while beautiful, just weren’t right for the theme of the site. So I created my own navigation buttons and I felt that they fit seamlessly with the existing theme of Fancybox yet were appropriate for a completely different style of site. If you’re project has gold or gold would be a nice accent for it, you will love these buttons. They’re free to use for commercial and non-commercial projects, I ask only that you not post them for download yourself but link back to this page if you want to share them with friends…

I would say that in my experience as a web designer and developer, deciding on what is a “fair rate” to charge for my work ranks as one of the most difficult aspects that has taken me a long time to get a handle on.

I wanted to post a little discussion on the topic of “fair rates” for web design. It is my hope that this video is a help to web designers who are just starting out and also people who are currently shopping for a web designer and are unsure of what to look for and what to expect in terms of skill, price, and a number of other factors. Hope it helps!

A discussion…