Technical Dreams

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  Hunt for the Perfect CMS

  15th August 2008 05:13 by tom

  Probably the most commonly requested requirement for a website is the ability for the client to add and edit pages. It sounds such a simple requirement, but in reality it's really tricky to get the balance right between functionality, flexibility and the level of technical skills required. There are literally… Read more

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  How to Let your Users Create Desktop Shortcuts to your Website

  12th August 2008 04:25 by tom

  Bookmarks are very handy for remembering sites you like, but wouldn't it be really neat to let your users create a proper icon on their desktop that links directly through to your website? Or even a link in the Quick Launch bar right next to the start button. Using Gears… Read more

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  Firefox Guinness World Record Download Attempt

  21st June 2008 12:18 by tom

  Has Firefox Set the Guinness Record for the most downloads in a 24 hour period? That was the aim for the latest release of their ever popular browser; Firefox 3. Millions of people logged into the official site to grab a copy of the browser, infact according to the Download… Read more

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  Facebook Style Image Grabber

  22nd February 2008 11:57 by tom

  I love the way Facebook works; there are so many subtly clever gizmos that just make the whole experience that little bit smoother and pleasant. One feature I particularly like is the image grabber. For those that don't know, if you enter a URL while writing a private message in… Read more

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  How to Generate an Image Captcha

  19th February 2008 04:44 by tom

  Everyone hates spammers, how they sleep at night I don't know... Maybe they are so rich they can afford to buy those special space age mattresses that mold to fit your shape, or machines that imitate the sound of the ocean! (OK I got that from a film). But one… Read more

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  Give your site an MOT

  18th February 2008 05:12 by tom

  We often have clients asking us to check out their site and see if there are any bits we'd suggest improving or changing, so I thought I'd just list my quick top things to check out for and make sure your site has. This is far from exhaustive so please… Read more

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  Checking your site on Safari

  15th February 2008 05:10 by tom

  There's an increasing number of Mac users who are impossible to ignore. I may even become one myself at some point as they do look pretty nice! If like me you've always coded websites on a PC in the past you might have been forgiven for 'over-looking' the small percentage… Read more

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  Magical list generator using jquery

  20th November 2007 09:02 by lisa

  Just found this simple but effective javascript code, utilising the invaluable jquery library to create linked select lists. You select the first list and it magically goes off and generates the options in the 2nd and 3rd lists. This in itself isn't anything particularly ground breaking, but this code connects… Read more

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  A web design dream come true

  30th August 2007 07:50 by lisa

  Wow! Here's an amazing video by Dr Shai Avidan and Dr Ariel Shamir to support their paper on 'Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing'. It's a few minutes long, but it's worth watching to the end - where they make people disappear! Ooh! To be able to seamlessly extend or… Read more

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  An XHTML and CSS-based Form Template

  23rd August 2007 08:41 by tom

  I've always found it a little tricky to write truly valid forms, yet still keeping the layout looking anything half decent. I guess you can hack it around a bit and float div's left and right, but it somehow always seemed a rather long-winded way to go about things. So… Read more