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Wordle your Wordpress: Flash based tag cloud plugin 28 Jun 2009 | 04:31 am
I’ll never forget the day I discovered Wordle. Colourful, uniquely arranged words, sized according to popularity… beautiful! In September 2007 WordPress 2.3 launched with tagging built-in. The WordPre...
Synchronise Contacts between Harvest and Highrise 13 Apr 2009 | 10:45 pm
There appears to be an online application for everything these days… and thank goodness for that. 37signals have charged ahead and produced some wonderful online applications such as Basecamp, Backpac...
designing link styles 23 Feb 2009 | 01:52 am
Links are the fabric of the web. In this post I discuss the importance of link styling, and in particular, text links. I emphasise that link styles form a core prerequisite in designing a great user e...
Meraki promises. Meraki delivers. 1 Mar 2008 | 06:09 pm
I recently took delivery of a Meraki access point. I didn’t really need another access point but the hype eventually got to me. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what it would do. All I knew, was what...
Online Video is hot! 29 Jan 2008 | 03:09 am
It has been hard in the past to publish video on the web reliably, for a number of reasons, low bandwidth being the larger of the limiting factors. But there are many more users with fat bandwidth and...
ie7 penetration statistics (updated) 8 Dec 2007 | 03:10 am
It’s now been 12 months since the release (via automatic updates) of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). 79% of visitors to our client sites are using an Internet Explorer browser (a reduction of 3% from when ...
The Google Analytics Revolution 25 Nov 2007 | 02:31 pm
Google bought Urchin Web Analytics in 2005. Since then we have seen some major changes to the original Urchin software. Earlier this year Google upgraded their analytics offering significantly. Google...
Chart your websites performance in the search engines 20 May 2007 | 10:38 pm
We are always looking for ways of accurately reporting the success of websites in the search engines. Screen scraping the search engine result pages is not always an option since they often lock you o...
why www? no www! 18 Apr 2007 | 11:17 pm
Ever heard a radio announcer read out a website address “double u double u double u dot sydney restaurants dot com dot au”. It really takes a very long time to say ‘www’. So why do it? Why do we put a...
more ajax spinners a.k.a ajax activity loaders, animated spinners 22 Feb 2007 | 02:07 am
We have recently began submitting forms via AJAX rather than the traditional full page load approach. It is working very well. The challenge now though is to make this approach as accessible as possib...
