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Advent Calendar – 25

mike — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:00:22 +0000

Merry Christmas!

Advent Calendar – 22

mike — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:01 +0000

Sprouts!

Advent Calendar – 15

mike — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:00:58 +0000

The perfect place for festive and New Year’s celebration.

Google Maps

mike — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:09:08 +0000

I’ve been using Google Maps for a while and they really are good! Many a bored moment I would spend visiting Google Sightseeing, fascinated by the weird and wonderful images of the world, and all from the comfort of my computer.

Integrating a map into a site is fairly straight forward so I decided to have a look at my Yorkshire Dales Photos site and map out the locations of each photo. I’ve not finished them all but here is a sneaky peak – photo locations. The JS is a bit untidy and what I should really do is create a kml file which can then be plugged into Google Earth. Unfortunately my lowly laptop struggles to run it so I’ll have to wait for a nice shiny new one to play with that, whenever that will be!

‘Old school’ rules to web design

mike — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:58:06 +0000

The idea for ‘Old school’ rules to web design came about after I visited lots of internet cafes in South America and noticed that a lot of the machines were pretty old. I used several machines running Windows 98 on 14 inch monitors at a resolution of 640×480 and realised that I didn’t design sites for such small resolutions anymore.

New article – Jakob Nielsen’s latest ramblings

mike — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 05:23:14 +0000

I was reading Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox – Avoid Within-Page Links and just had to comment. It was going to be a simple post but whilst writing I decided it would become an article in my Writings section. I have been wanting to write about JN for a while but his recent alertbox articles have been pretty reasonable albeit still condescending. So, enjoy my latest rant article, Jakob Nielsen’s latest ramblings.

promeni.net – my new photoblog

mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:07 +0000

I’ve been wanting to create a photoblog for many months now and have been looking on and off for a while as to what software I could use to create one. I looked at other blogging software such as Moveable Type and Textpattern and even CMS’s to do exactly what I wanted. Suffice it to say, none of them did what I wanted in a simple way. So I went back to good old WordPress and thought there would be some customisation and plugin writing/searching. In fact it was actually quite easy and I had all of the templates done in a day. And promeni.net is the result. It is a very simple site with the main emphasis on the picture, which is what a photoblog should be about. Enjoy!