3 Must have photo applications for your iPhone. TiltShiftGen $.99 allows you to apply some create retro features to your photos. Change the brightness, saturation, and contrast Add a radial or linear blur Add ...

A handful of tips to help you improve your Facebook use with friends, family and co-workers.

Ryan shows you how to use the vector pen tool in Adobe Fireworks

Fireworks is an Adobe product similar to Photoshop but tailored more towards web design.  Here are the basics to doing masking.

MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, what's the next social media fad that is going to sweep the nation?

A 50 minute video gives you the overview of a content management system and how easy it is to update your own website.

Web Ascender finishes first place in our summer kickball league!

Facebook recently launched the concept of @mentions for status updates.

Web Ascender has openings this summer for web designers, internet marketers and sales interns.  Check out the details...

The new office toy is a mini HD flip camera. I used it today to get a testimonial during a client visit. Quality is great for the size, this is completely un-edited.

Web Ascender has worked very hard over the last 365 days to meet the requirements to

Web Ascender employees Jeff McWherter and Michael Pardo created an application for the new Google Phone.

The daily stand up is a meeting held each day to ensure each member of a team is on the “same page” of a project.

The majority of websites you come across today feature layouts that have a fixed width for content that fits in two, three, or even four columns and

Next to your skill set, the most important thing about developing for the web is the tools...

Agile is individuals and interactions over process and tools, customer collaboration over...

Web Ascender becomes a Microsoft Certified Partner and achieves a Microsoft Competency in delivering custom development solutions.

It has taken awhile for me to ‘get’ Twitter.  I have had an account for almost a year now but I did not dive in until a couple months ago...

Majority of the websites Web Ascender puts together is based on the DotNetNuke platform and we are hitting a new milestone

Ryan Doom spoke on Social Media today at the Michigan Chamber of Commerce building.  The presentation is available for download.

Ryan talks with Walter Sorg of WILS1320 this morning about internet social media websites such as Facebook and YouTube.

DotNetNuke – Show the logged in users name

The DotNetNuke documentation does not always have everything you need to customize the system. Often times you need to open up DotNetNuke in Visual Studio to review some of the methods that are available to you in the skins / ascx controls.

Here is how to show the first name, last name or show the username of the logged in user in DotNetNuke / DNN.

<%If HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated=True Then%>

Welcome

<%=UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().FirstName%>

,

<%End If%>

 

<% If HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated=False Then %>

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<% End If %>

 

<% If HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated=True Then %>

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<% End If %>

To show the username of the logged in user in DotNetNuke you can use UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().UserName

Whether you realize it or not, a lot of your time at the computer is probably spent moving your hands from the keyboard to the mouse...

Web Ascender compiles a list of some of our most popular website usability tips and has released the first of the 2 part series.

As web developers, sometimes we use terms and lingo that is not familiar to our clients. Some common...

Web Ascender has had a great 2007, and we look forward to a great 2008.  We have included some Web Ascender factoids that may be of some interest to all of our favorite people.

Many entrepreneurs and salesmen know that networking with other people is an important factor ...

A recent study reveals what your visitors are really looking at on your web pages...

Success is measured the same regardless of whether you are measuring your website, your business, the success of an event...

“Web 2.0” refers to the Web as a platform for a new paradigm in software delivery and functionality....

Many small businesses start off with buying a couple of computers, connecting them to ... 

If you’re responsible for sending out important emails, writing online articles...

Don't have enough time in the day? Have the feeling of...

Web Ascender and their clients get a brand new web server...

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Well we have been in IT long enough to know that technology will fail you ...

 

Web Ascender is doing its part in the Lansing area to help the IT industry ...

I received the most interesting lead on a website yesterday, it was due to a returned library book....

We get asked what is RSS all the time, Ryan tries to break it down for ya'll.