After a month of boiling water in a pan the thought occurred to me that maybe the kettle was fine and that it was the fuse in the plug that had blown – so I replaced it with one I knew to be working.
Sadly no, it still wouldn’t work.
The kettle however, is the one [...]
For quite some time now the Visual Editor hasn’t worked for this blog. It seemed to want to load but once the editor had fully loaded the Visual Editor buttons were missing and the content pane was blank. Funnily enough though, if I dragged my cursor through the content pane it highlighted the text in [...]
Just came across Elf Yourself from JibJab which allows you to dress up to five people as elves and have them perform a dance afterwards.
There are a number of different dances to choose from and the end result can be emailed or embedded so that you can share it with friends and family.
You can also download it however this [...]
ThickBox is a WordPress plugin that adds the lightbox functionality to images in your posts. You can download it from the WordPress site. I found a little hack was necessary to get it to work as I didn’t fully understand the instructions provided on the author’s website.
After installing and activating the plugin the lightbox effect [...]
I came across a very thought-provoking website today.
Local Cooling aims to help combat Global Warming by encouraging computer users to reduce the amount of power they waste by leaving their computers on whilst not being used.
The following information is taken from their website:
More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us [...]
I started working with another web design company at the beginning of the new year – The Web Shop. The chap I am working with is a master at search engine optimisation (SEO), he can pretty much guarantee to get you on the first page in Google within three or four weeks. You can see some of [...]
An online SEO tool for webmasters – performs a free analysis of your website and provide recommendations on how to improve your website so you can get found by more prospects and convert higher percentages of them to paying customers.
www.websitegrader.com
dfGallery has to be one of the slickest free flash galleries around at the moment. One of it’s best features is the ability to display images in full screen mode by simply right-clicking on an image (you need to have Flash Player 9 to take advantage of this). Take a look at dfGallery, if you need a gallery for your website you could do [...]
Another one for web or graphic designers, Fawnt boasts a collection of over 8,000 classy fonts with an extremely user-friendly interface. If you’re looking for a font try Fawnt for size: http://fawnt.com.
This excellent piece of software deserves a big plug. If you’re into building websites with image galleries it’s a must see and use. What’s more if you want to use it on a personal website, a school site, your family’s photo album or if you are a non-profit organisation it’s free to use. Check it out here: http://vikjavev.no/highslide.
