Ten reasons to use WordPress themes from StudioPress

Posted in on 25 August 2010 | Comments [2]

I’ve been using some WordPress themes from StudioPress in recent months and have been pretty impressed – so I thought I would highlight some of the reasons why in this short post.

Info: I have used the Genesis theme with various child themes on several projects.

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Getting started with Facebook pages for business

Posted in on 11 July 2010 | Comments [2]

Like many other folks, I have a Facebook account which I use for personal friends (and only friends). However, I have never used Facebook for business reasons until fairly recently. A few weeks ago, I was asked if I could create a Facebook page for a business and, whilst I’m sure I could do this, I had to be honest with the potential client and say that I’d never actually done this before. With some spare time last weekend, I thought I’d create my own business (page) on Facebook. I should be in a better position to advise clients if I have actually done it myself! Here’s what I have done so far and a few beginner tips.

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Five fantastic Firefox extensions you might not know

Posted in on 13 May 2010 | Comments [2]

Like many other Firefox users, the large number of Firefox add-ons that extend what I can do with Firefox means that it is my default browser. I probably use many of the add-ons that you know and love but I thought it would be interesting to list a few that are not so well-known… but that I find really useful. In no particular order, here they are:

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Create your own iPhone app quickly and easily

Posted in on 4 January 2010 | Comments

The growth of the iPhone app store and market has been phenomenal in recent years. Many websites and blogs have developed their own iPhone applications as a way of promoting their brand. One recent example of this was the Guardian newspaper in the UK with its own Guardian iPhone app. Quite a smart way of leveraging the newspaper’s online content I think.

Up to now, you needed to have some development experience and you had to navigate your way through the Apple app development process before creating and (possibly) selling your app. However, AppMakr is a new website that promises to make iPhone app development easy, fast, and inexpensive. If you have website content and an RSS feed, AppMakr makes it straightforward to create an iPhone app for a low price (from $199). I viewed their demo movie and it all looks very easy!

This is one of those (rare) websites that has really made me sit up and say Wow!

Related: Want to optimise your website for iPhones using the traditional CSS route? Try iPhone CSS—tips for building iPhone websites

Advent calendar websites for web developers

Posted in on 7 December 2009 | Comments

This is the time of year when online advent ‘calendars’ spring to life. As a web designer/developer, I don’t mean those nice pictorial calendars that we give to children but instead websites that publish an article a day for the first 24 days of December. Here are three that are aimed at geeks, developers, or web designers.

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