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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 send [...]

May 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: SEO, social media, web theory | Leave a comment

Comments please

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 eventually found a great little [...]

March 16th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: London site rebuild, web development | Leave a comment

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 developed [...]

March 9th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: London site rebuild, web development | Leave a comment

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 kind [...]

February 23rd, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: London site rebuild | Leave a comment

The joys of Google

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 site e.g. for those occasions [...]

February 14th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: London site rebuild, web analytics | Leave a comment

The great CSS v IE6 challenge

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 was all you ever needed [...]

February 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: London site rebuild, web development | One comment