CropRefine WordPress Plugin

When an article is published in WordPress, it could likely appear across several of the internal templates, besides just the single post page. For example, you may see “Recent Articles” on the home page sidebar or footer, “Related Articles” at the bottom of other posts, and “Search Results” may show excerpts with thumbnails to help readers to quickly find relevant results. These other applications of featured images not only direct readers to the freshest content, but they also notify search indexers of changes to a WordPress sitemap. This boosts the credibility of the site and its author by showing that the site is maintained and current, and offering cross-links to promote relevance.Read More

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Mobile Apps and Chunk Uploads

Higher camera resolutions, retina pixel densities and broader bandwidth have given us the web with greater, more beautiful detail. And the HTML5 canvas element now gives us the ability to manipulate imagery armed with nothing more than Javascript. But, as with all growth, there are growing pains, and this one can be found in the

Error Code 413:

Request Entity Too Large.

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FoundationTables WordPress Plugin

Succeeding the popularity of Zurb’s famous framework, FoundationTables is a WordPress plugin written by ERA404 to harness the responsiveness the framework provides, and extend the WordPress page editor with a new toolset to easily insert, edit, style and delete Foundation-ready tables.Read More

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The Ryanair of Design

For frugal latitudinarians, Ryanair is a blessing. You can find tickets for as little as €1 to whisk you off to a growing set of your favorite European cities. They truly are the GoDaddy of airlines, with an inexpensive base price, a million options for billable add-ons, and even their CEO, Michael O’Leary, projects a similar public persona to GoDaddy’s Bob Parsons.Read More

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StaffList WordPress Plugin

If you’re unfamiliar with WordPress, it’s a powerful, extensible blogging architecture that’s quickly spawned a massive contributor base for plugins. ERA404 developed ImageMeta, in 2012, a comprehensive tool for refining and grooming all linked and embedded imagery in your WordPress blog or website, for improved SEO and ultimately more precise/favored search engine ranking.Read More

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The Creative Process

Oftentimes when approached by clients and agencies, we’re asked about our creative process at ERA404. While people can easily see a step-by-step diagram of our development process, broken down by time, cost and client interaction, we have never really outlined how the creative process works here. This is partially because development, which is creative in its own right, is considerably more objective, pragmatic, and analytical. The process is linear, relying on previous checkpoints to proceed to latter ones.Read More

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