michael ciccarelli » freelance web designer

On the homepage of a WordPress site I was working on, I wanted to display the most recent post completely (not just the excerpt) while the next 9 showing the excerpt only. I also wanted to include a post image and other additional meta data for better usability and also to make the latest article more..

One of the the most important parts of optimizing your website for search engines is to target a select few keywords that you would like to rank well for and sprinkle these terms throughout your pages and domain. A great tool to use when optimizing your site is seo-browser.com, this will allow you to view more..

Soon after launching of my latest redesign I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the use of typography throughout the site. I’ve been teaching myself different font embedding technologies in order to use a specific font of my choice, rather then the standard web safe fonts you see everyday all over the web. more..

I’ve recently picked up a few iPhone/iTunes tricks that I’d like to share with those of you that would like to do the following:

Create custom ring tones using your own .MP3s
Synchronize your iPhone with multiple iTunes Librarys (computers)

Creating Custom Ring Tones with iTunes only
Using the instructions in this article I can now take any more..

I’ve been using a Blackberry for some time now, longer than I’ve owned my Macbook. Originally I was always under the impression that there was no way to Sync my Blackberry contacts and calendar with Apple’s iCal and Address Book, without purchasing additional software. So I was content on syncing my Blackberry data with Outlook more..

Aside from development I do have a day job. I’ve been working in the IT department of Spinneybeck for about 2 years now. One of my job responsibilities is to answer support calls from our sales reps. They all have their own PC, most laptops but some desktop computers, and all of them have a more..

This afternoon I decided to restore my iPod Mini back to default factory settings. During the process iTunes suggested that I “Upgrade my iPod to the latest software” so I went ahead and answered yes to the upgrade. After a couple seconds all I seen was a little “plug iPod into the wall charger” icon more..

There were a few laptops in the office that shared a similar problem, the mouse cursor would go beyond the right of the screen. So instead of the cursor/pointer stopping at all 4 edges of the screen, when you moved it towards the right side of the screen it would continue on past the edge more..

One of the only things I missed about working on Windows XP was the convenience of accessing other machine’s folders and files, that were on the network, from my desktop via Windows Explorer. I knew this was more than likely possible on OS X, I just didn’t know how to do so. Until recently I more..

Several months ago I wrote a tutorial How to burn copyrighted DVDs. It was a very simple, basic explanation of how to copy a DVD that was Copyrighted.
Lifehacker has recently posted a far superior article: Turn your PC into a DVD ripping monster that covers pretty much everything I had mentioned in my original article more..