Spam in a can

Google’s Re-Captcha service is free,which is a lovely thing. It’ll help with all manner of things;we’ve just started using it on the Melbourne Genderqueer forums and hopefully this will help reduce the number of spambot signups they’re getting.

Getting Google Calendars onto WordPress

The problem:Facebook events had to be manually added to google calendar,which was then added via plugin to a website I maintain.

The calendar ALSO didn’t display anything but the one google calendar,and there were several being subscribed to.

Get a google calendar account and add the events

1. get a google calendar . . . →Read More:Getting Google Calendars onto WordPress

Keep things simple

More and more I see websites that you have to dig for information. You click a button that’s clearly named to give you the hope of more information,and you end up on another general page which doesn’t have what you’re looking for,

So you click again,and the same thing happens.

Rinse and repeat.

. . . →Read More:Keep things simple

making phone numbers clickable

On a lot of mobile phones with touch-screens (iphone,etc),you’re able to tap on a phone number on a website to dial that number.

Some numbers don’t get recognised however –13 numbers for example.

Thanks to Jennifer at Scriptygoodness.com,there’s a solution:it’s a hyperlink with a difference. Click to read more about . . . →Read More:making phone numbers clickable

Why you shouldn’t use Facebook for personal stuff

I wrote this email to some friends about Facebook versus a personal password-protected website for photos and personal stuff. Thought it might be of use to others

Just wanted to write some things about Facebook.

First,putting photos onto Facebook is really dangerous as it regularly changes security settings without telling anyone. In the . . . →Read More:Why you shouldn’t use Facebook for personal stuff

Creating your own Favicon in Photoshop

The Favicon is the little icon that appears next to a website address in the website address bar –up there at the top of your browser. It is literally a tiny little image that’s dropped into the html folder of your website,or if you want to be neater,an image subfolder. The code at . . . →Read More:Creating your own Favicon in Photoshop

iPhone icons

If you own an iPhone you might have noticed that if you add a website to the home screen,some appear with neat icons and some just display a representation of the page you were on.

It’s actually rather simple to get a neat icon for your website to appear on the iPhone,and it . . . →Read More:iPhone icons

mailing lists versus social networking:the new web

Buzzwords ahoy!

I’m a hip and with-it computer internet person;running a business that is all about the web,you have to be!

Mailing lists are old favourites on the web and are based on the assumption that people like to receive email messages with information in them,be they specials you’re offering,general information . . . →Read More:mailing lists versus social networking:the new web

Top 100 websites

Today in The Guardian online there is a report on their top 100 websites,with some analysis of the winners and losers this year:

100 essential websites

It makes for interesting reading,especially the part how Twitter has effectively steamrolled the opposition and now has become,in my opinion,the tool of choice for citizen-journalists . . . →Read More:Top 100 websites

Website Design

It’s Finally Ready! Google releases Chrome for Mac and Linux

Chrome has been out at least a year for the PC,but unfortunately for us on the Mac (and Linux by default) there hasn’t been anything to use but the rather good Safari or the (in my opinion) slightly disappointing Firefox. I say disappointing . . . →Read More:Website Design