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Moving and sharing
Many years ago, the best you could do to connect your site to another site was through adding links. Plain old hyperlinks to other web sites – the stuff that made the web the web. And then things became a little fancier and you could host a form on your site to allow people to...
A standard kind of code
If you want to get under the skin of developers, just start talking to them about web standards. Specifically the idea of them building client side code which complies with standards such as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2 (probably the two most commonly followed ones at the moment) and, dare I suggest, WCAG 1.0 (Accessibility)....
3 new social media friends
HTML5, microformats and next generation search – 3 things which you should probably become acquainted with this year if you work in the area of social media or web development. Why? Because they are crucial to driving forward their adoption. Peter Kim recently did some research into Social Media Predictions for 2009 – here is...
Becoming better web informed
Today I visited ecommerce expo in London. It was interesting, not only for the presentations on social media but also to see the number of snake oil vendors operating in the marketplace. You know, the types who’ll sell you a “custom” website for £4k (5 pages only, template-based, and SEO advice extra, of course). It...
Comments are free but the code is rubbish
One of the things I’ve been keen to do for a while is to add a better comments tool to London for Free. Recently, I discovered an excellent script from GentleSource, which seemed to do the trick nicely. All I needed to do was to set up a mysql database from my webhost and download,...
London for free goes mobile
Well, since the relaunch a couple of months ago of the main London For Free site, this has been at the top of my list of stuff to do. Then last month, there was an excellent article in .Net magazine, describing the basics of making your site mobile. So finally today, I started creating the...
Captcha the spammers
It was only a matter of time, I guess. Recently I had started to receive spam emails through the web forms dotted around the new site. Thinking back with horror to the time a few years ago when I was receiving thousands of spam messages a day, I knew I had to do something to...
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”...
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