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MIGHTYminnow creation RocketDogRescue.org named Best Online Adoption Site

RocketDogRescue.org has won Best Online Adoption Site in the 2015 Beast of the Bay Awards hosted by Bay Woof magazine, beating out many national pet adoption websites. Each year devoted dog lovers in the Bay Area select winners for 56 fun categories from best dog-friendly politician, to best dog-friendly bar. The minnows at MIGHTYminnow are […]

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New Mm Theme: Trestle

CSS, Genesis, MIGHTYminnow News, MIGHTYminnow's Favorite Plugins, PHP, Tech Tip, WordPress / mickey

Trestle A handy boilerplate child theme for serious Genesis developers. Trestle takes a lot of the grunt work out of building sites using the Genesis Framework, providing quick and easy-to-implement solutions to common problems and repetitive tasks. We’ve taken Genesis’ rock-solid foundation, integrated mobile-first CSS, responsive navigation, a full-featured settings panel, and much more. Download. Install.

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Mm Plugin: WP Hotkeys

MIGHTYminnow News, MIGHTYminnow Plugins, MIGHTYminnow's Favorite Plugins, Plugins, Tech Tip, WordPress / mickey

WP Hotkeys WP Hotkeys provides time-saving keyboard shortcuts to help you quickly navigate the WordPress dashboard. Download Now » WP Hotkeys helps you navigate your dashboard as quickly as possible with fully customizable keyboard shortcuts. After installing WP Hotkeys, you will see the default hotkey hints display in brackets next to each standard menu item

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For Love. Part Two.

Did you know?, Fun around the office, MIGHTYminnow News, Website Success / kristinlong

200+ hours (of unbillable time) is difficult to find. Unless you make it a priority. A real, concrete, front-of-the-line priority. Which is what we did, this summer. We made making Rocket Dog Rescue a shiny new website into our top priority.

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For Love. Part One.

Did you know?, Fun around the office, MIGHTYminnow News, Website Success / kristinlong

We are a small company. MIGHTYminnow, small but strong. That’s sort of our unofficial tagline. And at our size, the bottom line is a real consideration. Rent, payroll, expenses… Estimates, calculations, hours, invoices… These mechanisms (which we sometimes find quite tedious, in all honesty) are necessary components of our day-to-day. They are the business counterparts

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Another Successful Website Weekend!

Fun around the office, MIGHTYminnow News / kristinlong

Last Weekend, the minnows gathered with 8 eager students to take on the challenging but exciting task of creating websites for each student over the weekend! We feel that it was a great success and we’re excited that this was the third Website Weekend in a row to sell out. With it came some great

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WordCamp: San Francisco Edition

Around the Neighborhood, Fun around the office, MIGHTYminnow News / mickey

This past weekend saw WordCamp SF come to town, and it pretty much rocked my socks off. Though MIGHTYminnow represented last year, it was before my time so this was my first WordCamp. I think I’m totally hooked now. Below are some highlights: Speakers The sheer number of hugely talented presenters was astounding: WordPress core developers, prolific

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Why WordPress?

Did you know?, MIGHTYminnow News, Tech Tip / kristinlong

Sometimes MIGHTYminnow gets the question, “Why do you guys use WordPress?” First, CMS (Content Management System) based websites are easier to maintain than “static” websites. WordPress is one choice of CMS and there are tons of other CMSs on the (open source) market. While no CMS is the perfect answer for every website, we find

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Dreamweaver Webinar for Adobe Tech Live

MIGHTYminnow News / kristinlong

If you missed out on Kristin’s talk at Adobe’s MAX conference, she presented a similar webinar this morning, July 11th, on Faster Theming of Dynamic, CMS Based Sites in Dreamweaver CC. It is posted in Adobe Tech Lives’s archives, so be sure to take a look and learn all about faster CMS theming workflows using Adobe Dreamweaver!

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Happy Independence Day!

MIGHTYminnow News / kristinlong

In observance of Independence Day, MIGHTYminnow will be closed Thursday July 4th and Friday July 5th. If you have any projects or issues with your website you would like to discuss with us, please plan accordingly! You can call us at 510.629.1440 or contact us to talk. We hope you will enjoy the friends, fireworks, and picnics this holiday brings!

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