Web & Code
Anyone got recommendations for blog stats packages?
At the moment I’m using google analytics, which is frankly overkill; plus it doesn’t tell me things like how many comments I’ve had in a given period. I’m also trying performancing.com’s metrics which do have more relevant reports for blogs but (and this is very irritating) you can’t change it to display in your local… Read note →
Microsoft launch Photosynth
Microsoft have just launched Photosynth an amazing new website with software that “takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.” With Photosynth you can: Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle. Seamlessly zoom in… Read note →
How to create or edit a Firefox quick search
I like the quick search facility in firefox; the dictionary search is particularly useful. by typing “dict search-term” into the address bar you get a dictionary definition. The definitions used to be provided by dictionary.reference.com but for some reason in the last couple of versions it’s been the Merriam-Webster website. I just don’t think the… Read note →
Dreamweaver 8 losing FTP login settings
Recently I’ve been having a frustrating time using Dreamweaver’s FTP client. For some reason, it kept losing the FTP user name and password whenever I restarted dreamweaver, and it seems I was not alone. It appears that the problem was caused by a conflict between the version of Dreamweaver I was running and IE7. Downloading… Read note →
A whole batch of good new stuff – Part 2: Web Sites
I read the other week that the average person in Western Europe now spends four hours a week online; I think this must make me special, I’ve just done some quick maths and I’m certain that I spend over thirty hours a week online. Admittedly a lot of that is for work (working on customer… Read note →
A change of theme
I decided it was time for a change of theme. I know I’ve only had the blog going for a couple of months, but I’ve not been entirely happy with the look of the site since the word go. The old “Almost Spring” theme was OK but not quite what I was after. The new… Read note →
@media 2007 announced!
Having thoroughly enjoyed @media 2006 a couple of months back, I was excited to receive an email today announcing @media 2007! And this time there are three conferences to choose from: San Francisco, Hong Kong or London If you are involved in the web design / development industry and you are near one of the… Read note →
Hype 2.0
There is a huge buzz in the web community at the moment about “web 2.0″. Web 2.0 is the term applied by some people to products of the recent trend for developing web applications using technologies like XML & AJAX, providing “social networks” – where people are able to interact with each other and manipulate… Read note →
moblogging…
It would be dead handy if I could post to my blog from a mobile. I rarely find time to right entries for my blog at the moment, being able to post quickly from the phone would be realy nice. I’ve been playing about over the last day or so with lifeblog from nokia. It’s… Read note →
Sometimes the little thing you forget causes you the most pain
I spend a lot of time wrestling with CSS working round IE’s broken box model. A lot of this pain could have been avoided, if only I’d remembered about the “doctype switch”. If you don’t know what a box model is, or why IE’s is broken, have a look at this. There are lot’s of… Read note →