Sunday, March 16th, 2008 77 views
I work with a really talented bunch of people and last week one of them made a great suggestion for my site.
Add a comments section, they said. Perfect.
Er, but how exactly.
After wading through loads of message board plug-ins for things like WordPress and full applications that needed database support, I ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008 180 views
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 ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 144 views
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 ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008 72 views
Hats off to Google - they definitely provide some excellent website tools. And of course they are totally free.
I've been using two of them for some time now on my current site: Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics.
The webmaster tools are invaluable for helping to highlight missing urls within your ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 101 views
Aaaarggggghhhhh - talk about a marriage made in hell.
Everything worked so perfectly (ok, maybe not quite) in IE on my current site but I appreciate the days of table based layouts are limited. Once upon a time, good old tables within tables within tables sprinkled with a few one-pixel gifs ...
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