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One week to launch
After two months, the site is now almost ready to go live. This weekend I’ve been applying the finishing touches to it. All the content is now done apart from one page which I need to give a bit of thought to – the sitemap for visitors (not to be confused with the xml “sitemap”...
countdown to launch
I created a plan at the outset for the re-design of my site. Thankfully I’ve so far managed to get the work done to plan – fuelled by chocolate, oranges and beer and driven by listening to excellent internet radio stations late into the evening, 6 nights a week. And now I’m only one week’s...
Widgets, more widgets
Finally, I’ve completed the first section of the re-build : the walks. All my old walks content has now been refreshed and migrated but that still left me with a couple of content gaps. And what better fillers than widgets. A quick search and I found a really good widget site, Yourminis. Now I have...
Google maps and KML
As part of the re-build of londonforfree, I wanted to freshen up the google maps, particularly to replace the pink pin icons with actual images of the different locations on each map and make the maps more interactive. This led me to discover KML (a file format and schema based on XML) – though initially...
Print-only stylesheets and the firefox bug
One of the big benefits of using CSS-based design for a site is the fact that you can control the layout of printed pages. Instead of users having to print out exactly what they see on screen, you can get rid of stuff like nav, sidebars and plug-ins from pages, enabling them to print out...
Two steps to valid Flash plug-ins
One thing that bugs me about third party plug-ins is that they always seem to need a bit of code cleaning up in order to make them standards-compliant. I always ensure I validate my site against XHTML 1.0 Transitional and typically it has been the plug-ins from YouTube, Google and now SpringWidgets that have needed...
SpringWidgets – or the long way of embedding a blog
For ages, I’ve been trying to figure out a way of extracting (only) the content of my FAQ blog and providing it within the layout of my new site. Sounds easy enough – you’d think. I guess technically this means something like exporting posts from Blogger in XML format and then including them as a...
Information Architecture – or just plain common sense??
Back in the days when we were all still getting used to the web and google was just another search engine, I used to run free web clubs on Sunday afternoons for my work colleagues. At these clubs, I’d share my emerging knowledge about the web. And to give the sessions some structure, I’d break...
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