‘tips for the web’

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 [...]

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 looks [...]

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 or even [...]

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 (remember the [...]

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 with regard to Firefox [...]

If you’ve chosen to have your website hosted with Tall Poppy Digital, you can now check if there are any problems just by visiting here and looking in the sidebar.
I’ve added a widget there for the Dreamhost Status feed, through Twitter, which gives updates on any issues that may be occurring.
As annoying as website and [...]

With thanks to Randall Munroe of XKCD.com:
The Tech Support Cheat Sheet – be the envy of your colleagues and co-workers and fix your family’s computers using this highly sought-after free guide
You can download it here: Tech Support Cheat Sheet at XKCD.COM

Thanks to the wonderful people at Stylish Design, anyone who has Photoshop CS2 or up, together with some graphic design skills, can create really nice, convincing-looking 3d eBook and box images.
Click to open the Stylish Design eBook page
It’s a really nice solution and looks great! The only thing to remember is to save the file [...]

Google Webmaster Help
Google provides a number of free services for users of the web (and by default, users of their search engine. Bing is a newcomer to the market and only time shall tell how popular it gets).

Google Webmaster Help
The Google Webmaster help gives answers to questions that you probably haven’t even thought of yet, [...]

I and my good friends once owned a domain. It was a nifty domain (think it cost us $30US for a year at the time). It was for a street magazine I’d conceived on the flight back to OZ from the UK.
We let it go. There simply wasn’t the time to keep the magazine going [...]