Airtight CSS Rounded Corners
For some reason, the Airtight website is down, leaving people lost for a lightweight CSS rounded corner solution.
Thankfully, I’ve got a copy so here it is in all it’s glory.
Web Design Peterborough
Most companies, when looking to outsource website design or development, start in their local area, typically with a Google search tagging on their town/county at the end of a keyword list such as:
- Web Design Peterborough
- Web Development Peterborough
- Website Design Peterborough
- Web Design Cambridgeshire
…you get the idea.
A lot of the search results for “web design peterborough” are for directories that with a bit of clever URL and keyword work, consistently placing in the first two pages. This makes it difficult for reputable Peterborough-based Web Design agencies and those further afield within Cambridgeshire to get themselves noticed.
For such agencies, it is important to build awareness to their online presence using as many means as possible, such as registering domain names such as Web Design Peterborough or incorporating Peterborough into their URL.
Facebook starting to smell like Myspace
Tech.co.uk writer James Rivington posted the following article about Facebook and how it’s not as good as it used to be… and how it’s adopting more and more of the aspects which make MySpace so infuriating.
“Facebook accounts will be abandoned in their millions, just like what is happening with MySpace,” it says. “You might as well just blend the two sites together and call it MybookSpaceFace.”
Making the flickr badge your own
It was something I’ve been meaning to look into for a while – styling my flickr badge so it’s a bit prettier and w3c friendly.
In case you hadn’t heard, flickr offer a nifty feature called a flickr badge which allows you to include a selection of photos from your account on a web page.
Out of the box, the HTML badge code includes a naughty table so the first thing to do was strip that out and replace the table tag with a div. That worked and I left it for a few months until this morning when one of my clients asked for me to include a badge on his site.
I can allow quick and dirty hacks on my own site but when it’s someone’s business you want to push the boat out a bit don’t you? So now I’m left wondering what can and can’t be done with the code flickr churn out, a quick Google search returns a couple of interesting sites:
- Elliot Swan’s flickr API reference
All the Javascript parameters you need to know, plus a handy example snippet of the output HTML as a guide. - Veerle’s W3C valid flickr badge
In a similar vein to Elliot’s site but more emphasis on the styling and includes an example of how to recreate the flickr Veerle uses on her own site.
See my first tidy draft in action, there’s still room for improvement and next will be to replace the portfolio images with flickr versions.
eBay SEO tips and tricks
eBay stores are great, you can list all your product catalogue in the knowledge that the worlds largest auction site is going to get reliable traffic to your store.
In reality, you need to do every thing you can to tweak and tune your items to get additional traffic from Google – yes, get your your store listed in Google! This guide tells you all you need to know.
Desktop Tower Defence – super addictive gaming
It’s not often an online game gets my attention like Desktop Tower Defence has, so I felt it was only right that I share it with you.
DTD is war. War against creeps – tiny little critters that scurry around the game screen from one side to the other. Your mission is to stick weapons in a minesweeper-meets-maze style layout, forcing the creeps past all your firepower and hopefully kill them all before they make it out the otherside and escape.
Being flash based, the puzzle/strategy game doesn’t need anything installed other than the Flash plugin. High scores can be saved online for all to see and you can even create high score groups so that all your work colleages/schoolmates scores are listed together.
Every few seconds sees another wave of creeps launched into your maze, each with their own characteristics. You may be fighting against speedy creeps, slow but seemingly invincible creeps or even creeps that fly above your towers ignoring your fiendish maze layout.
Once you get the hang of it, a flawless victory can be had on the Easy setting but it will take some practice and clever maze construction to master Medium and Hard!
Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
It’s Jofftastic! New domain for the blog
I’ve decided to mirror the joff.org domain with jofftastic.co.uk – thanks to Google assuming that anything dot org could never be of relevance in the UK search results… give me Yahoo’s sensible SERPS any day!
So now, the blog should be sitting happily on the other end of http://blog.jofftastic.co.uk
What do you get the geeky web girl in your life?
They look cheap and are possibly best reserved for those industry networking events but these earrings from Etsy are quite funky in a purely geek way.
Recent comments