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A lender’s dilemma – did Kiva trick me and does it matter?

Kiva connects people through lending to alleviate poverty.

I’ve made a difference through Kiva, but it seems it wasn’t quite the difference I wanted to make, or thought I was making. Does it matter? Well, yes and no.

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Make 404 Pages much more helpful in WordPress

My Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide article about keeping lost visitors on your site has been published — Customizing WordPress 2.5.1: 404 Pages: Friendly text and useful links in the 404.php file give your confused visitors a much more pleasant experience when visiting your site. They will stay, rather than go, and they may even [...]

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Customise the WordPress Search results page

Another in my series of Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide WordPress articles was published the other day — Customizing WordPress 2.5.1: Search: After arriving at your blog, visitors may want to search for specific items you have written about. Make sure visitors have easy access to Search and that results are useful to them. This [...]

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Banks and anti-usability

I don’t know how they do it in other places, but in New Zealand bank accounts have numbers like this: xx-yyyy-zzzzzzz-00. See that 2-digit suffix in the top part of the screenshot? The suffix may be 50 or 00 or maybe 51 or some other two-digit number. That’s the number the bank issues when you [...]

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