Today is CSS Naked Day. You will be pleased to hear that stripping the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code from my website is as close as I am planning to go towards that aim but, you may be asking, what … Continue reading →

As a post-script to yesterday’s updated comments code, I wanted to show the graphic that is used as a marker while specific information for each entry (thumbnail graphic and number of existing comments) is being looked up on Flickr. The … Continue reading →

As promised yesterday, today I will give details of the updated javascript code that drives my comment links, all of which depends on the jQuery library. The original snippet looked like this: $(document).ready(function() {  $(“div.flickrcomment”).each(function(){    var aFlickr = this.id.split(“-“);    var sPicID = aFlickr[1];    $(this).load(“http://www.web-den.org.uk/scripts/flickrgrab.php”,      {photo_id:sPicID},function(){        $(this).show(2000);      }    );  });}); The revised version is a little … Continue reading →

Last year, I concocted a script that links my blog postings to pictures on my Flickr account (see index of postings). This allowed comments to be made on my blog postings using the secure, tried and tested mechanism set up … Continue reading →

As with many web-based services, YubNub has a strange name but an interesting concept. In this case, it is all about searching for information. For several years Google has been king of the hill when it comes to digging up … Continue reading →

It is all well and good to enthuse an audience about the possibilities offered by social networking when, like members of the local NHS webteam, they are already predisposed towards that kind of thing by having chosen jobs that involve … Continue reading →

The group I was addressed last Friday, when I delivered the presentation I am writing up for this series, was made up of NHS staff from around London whose common denominator was having responsibility for websites. Some work on the … Continue reading →

The subject of Web 2.0 is one that I have written about a lot on this blog because it has occupied much of my thinking as a professional web designer for the last year or so. You can peruse those … Continue reading →

MySpace is the biggest name in the current crop of “social networking” websites, with millions of pages. As a web designer who works to balance elegance and accessibility, I struggle to understand why: the site is often unreliable, the code … Continue reading →

After beginning my talk (see online presentation) with establishing that I was talking about people interacting via Internet technologies, I moved onto looking at some of the well-established ways of doing that. Even email is for communication between people but … Continue reading →