On my bookshelf: Web Design and Marketing Solutions
15 May 2008 | Comments
I am reading Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites by Kevin Potts at the moment. The book aims to provide advice for anyone who wants to build better business websites. The subtitle for the book is ‘Better Sites, Better Marketing’ and it goes through each stage of the website build and marketing process and provides useful tips and expert guidance along the way.
On first glance, the book seems to do a thorough job but I’ll post a more detailed review once I have finished reading it.
Jon Evans - freelance science writer
6 May 2008 | Comments [1]
A new website for the freelance science writer Jon Evans. The website includes a blog for Jon to write articles about science and about himself. For this reason and for ease of maintenance, the website was built using Textpattern using an adaption of the Profilo theme.
CSS Tip: Expand your font horizons
1 May 2008 | Comments
It is sometimes easy to get into the habit of always using the same font declaration in your style sheet for every website you do. Even though the number of fonts that are common to both Mac and Windows systems is pretty small, there are a few variations worth trying.
YAML CSS framework
25 April 2008 | Comments
These days, there are quite a few CSS frameworks popping up all over the place but YAML has an interesting and attractive CSS layout builder tool as part of its arsenal. This works really well and, in conjunction with the core YAML CSS framework, it allows you to build fixed and fluid CSS layouts with a few clicks of your mouse.
Link checking your website
22 April 2008 | Comments
I maintain several personal websites including a pub guide and a directory of pub links. In the latter case, it is particularly important to keep up-to-date with invalid links. People are only too happy to submit their link when it is new but if the link becomes invalid, for example the domain name changes or the website goes belly up, I seem to be the last to know.
I have all my links in a database but what I need is a simple link checking tool that can search my web pages for invalid links or do the same thing through my website's admin backend. That's where this LinkChecker extension [home page] for Firefox is very useful. It adds a 'Check Page Links' command to the right click menu. The extension checks each link and highlights every link on the page with a different colour according to their validity [green for valid, red for invalid ... you get the idea].
LinkChecker is a great little tool.
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