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Creating and using subdomains with MAMP Pro – easier than you think
This weekend I was trying to set up subdomains in MAMP Pro to replicate the server set up for a new project I’ve taken on. Although this task is actually quite straightforward in the end, I couldn’t find any decent documentation on it until coming across an article by Mark Van Der Putten that got...
Creating e-books from existing web content
This. Is. Awesome. Readlist allows you to create ebooks from existing web content – and have that sent to your Kindle / iWhatever. That’s just going to fit so nicely in with my life that I’m nearly weeping at the thought of it. For example, I spend the morning surfing the internet researching an upcoming...
I Don’t Understand The Facebook IPO
I don’t understand the Facebook IPO. Or, more to the point: as a potential (extremely small) investor, I don’t understand clearly enough how it would make me money. If I were a growth fund manager then yes, I’d be in there all guns blazing … it would make good sense to buy as much Facebook...
The most common birth dates – an infographic
Everyone loves a good infographic. This one shows which birth dates are most popular … as you might expect, September seems to be the most common month for birthdays … all that winter time cuddling … predictably, Feb 29th and Jan 1st are the 2 least common dates. Anyway, a nice heat map illustration of...
Makey Makey – turn bananas into a keyboard!
Oh – this is great! I’m off to my kids school to make sure we get some of these kits … What’s MaKey MaKey? MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It’s a simple Invention Kit for Beginners and Experts doing...
The Hold On Tight Shelf
Love this great book shelf … currently the favoured solution for our kitchen bookshelves that are causing our current gargoyle bookends an undue amount of stress. (more info. via)
Teaching kids to code in class
This is a wonderful project: Code Club – with a mission to get kids coding in schools, and an overall vision to ‘create a nationwide after school coding club for children aged 10 – 11’. Sounds wonderful. I did my first coding aged about 10 when I wrote a small program in Basic for a school project....
Firefox loses the favicon
This is interesting. Browsers are slowly ditching ‘favicons’ (the little logos that appear in the URL address bar of your web browser), and Firefox is the latest to do so. The reason is that it is very easy to create a favicon in the form of a padlock – giving your dodgy e-commerce site fake...
Great old photos of New York City
Ah, I love these old photos of NYC. Particularly this one of painters on the Brooklyn Bridge: Oh wait, and this one too, where the newspaper headline reads “Nazi Army Now 75 Miles From Paris” But they’re all good. (via)
Great to see so much responsive web design going on
It’s great to see more and more responsive web design going on … and this wonderful showcase highlights some of the best current work. This example from the University of California in San Diego is lovely – a good, strict responsive grid. It doesn’t try to do too much, but each screen resolution looks native...
People still asking for spec work from designers. Grrr …
So, today I received a really interesting looking tender document. It was well thought out, neatly presented, contained all the information I’d need to put together a full proposal and was, all in all, pretty enticing. Except for one thing. One of the things they requested in their document was: A concise submission should be...
Push your content, not your website
Something I try and stress to people now when developing websites is that the key to getting them to deliver is to understand that it is not actually about the website itself, it’s about the content. Your content should exist independently of your website – you should be able to break it into chunks and...