Came across this today from a Venezuelan programmer called Emmanuel Garcia. He has put together javascript library to show pages similiar to a real magazine or newspaper. The page also renders well on a ipad and mobile device. It called turn.js and the site demos the plugin, with a good reference guide too.
I was recently told about this site by a client as they liked the interface and usability of the site. However, www.duedil.com is more than just pretty. Its free to use and lets you look at your competitors accounts very easily. So if you had always wondered how much he or she is making compared [...]
Google has made the latest pre-emptive strike in a complicated war with Apple, Microsoft and BT over the ownership of technology used in their Android Operating system. Litigation wrangling has been brewing for some years now as the competition steps up in the smartphone war. Apple has already had to patch things up with Nokia [...]
Beadazzle run two jewellery sites online. One site www.beadazzle.co.uk sells official Pandora Jewellery and the www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk site sells all other non Pandora Jewellery products. Due to Pandora’s strict selling guidelines, they cannot sell any other products apart from Pandora on a single site. This meant that if they wanted to buy item Pandora and non [...]
Here’s a little tidbit for webmasters worrying about on site SEO. We have noticed lately that google can override the title tag on your web page and use it’s own title tag in the search engine results (SERP). So if your title tag is non existent or says ‘untitled’ then google will choose a title [...]
X-Cart 4.4.3 has a bug where the address book page is blank when you are logged into your customer account and goto the accounts section. This issue can be fixed by adding the following line add approx line 54. x_load(‘user’); The full forum thread is here. http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=60203&highlight=func_get_address_book
Check out windows 8′s new fast boot up. No more make a cup of coffee while the computer starts in the morning.
Nice article on how you should be setting up your Linkedin companies pages for organic traffic. http://searchengineland.com/how-to-use-linkedin-to-improve-organic-visibility-90219
The sharecount.com website allows you to get the social ranking of your webpage by getting public stats from facebook, twitter and google. There is even a free api to get this information programatically via a JSON interface. http://sharedcount.com/
Nice bit of javascript that resizes web video as you resize the webpage. The video on the fitvidsjs.com site is quite impressive. http://fitvidsjs.com/