sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Tech on May 12th, 2008
So, I have a customer.
Customer wants a new website. They’ve outgrown their existing one.
Website should be an ecommerce site and be really accessible to the search engines (I added the last bit!).
To be honest there is nothing in those short statements that would bother most website designers (which I am not by the way!). [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
In theory version 2.5 of Wordpress now allows multi-media files to be uploaded to your posts natively and without the use of a plugin.
In practice you probably want more control over these presentations than you are given - and that is where An-Archos’ plugin comes in to play.
mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
Vladimir Prevolac’s Wordpress plugin is an absolute life saver for the lazy amongst us. Essentially, every image we use should have both an alt and title tag associated with it. These tags Vladimir describes as follows:
ALT attribute is important part of search engine
optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
WordPress has reached version 2.5 (WordPress is the GPL OpenSource software used by bloggers), and I have dutifully applied the upgrade to this blog.
Mostly it has been painless and the improvements are many. Obviously there are quite a few niggles (can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs etc….), so I thought I would do a [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 16th, 2008
11.21am
Yesterday I predicted that Lewis Hamilton had what it takes to become a Multi-Champion to better the Schumacher legacy. At 3PM this afternoon, the UK will watch Lewis race to victory beating a flagging Ferrari team, his team mate, and the BMW of Nick Heidfeld.
He commented that:
I never thought it would have been physically [...]
