Web Development

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  Social Bookmark Shopping.. What!?

  25th February 2008 11:49 by tom

  Hands up who's heard of social bookmarking. I expect most people reading this article will have. The concept has been around for an Internet 'eternity' now. I thought everyone in the Facebook generation would be familiar with the idea, but I was speaking to a friend of mine yesterday, happily… 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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  Resources for Web Design (tutorials, tools, code libraries, templates and more)

  7th November 2007 13:32 by tom

  Some great links to resources for design tutorials, inspiration, tools, code libraries, browser bugs, galleries, templates, articles and web forums. http://www.softwaredeveloper.com Read more

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  Future-proof your CSS with Conditional Comments

  5th November 2007 09:09 by tom

  Anyone who has ever made a website, then tried to make it look the same for everyone will have come up against the nightmare that is cross-browser compatibility. Things are no doubt easier than they used to be. Back in the days of ie4/5 and Netscape you practically had to… Read more

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  Creating a Google Sitemap

  18th October 2007 06:56 by tom

  When I first heard about Google sitemaps I have to admit, I was a little skeptical. I didn't see why we should have to make Google's life easier. Surely it's Google's job to index our site, not the web developers job to spoon feed it information! Infact if practically any… Read more