Development
LESS – Leaner CSS
Adds lots of useful features for CSS, in fact why wasn’t it like this all along would have been things a lot easier and cleaner.
LESS – Leaner CSS.
Simon York Handyman – new site
New site been developed providing handyman services to the York area. See www.simonyorkhandyman.co.uk for more information.
Simple Twitter RSS Processing
I required a simple feed from Twitter into www.MindOver-matter.co.uk/news.php. There are numerous examples around but a lot of them are very convoluted. Below is an simple code example. The function could of course be modifed to be generic whereby user info etc would be passed in.
<?php
function parse_cache_feed($usernames, $limit) {
$feed = “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/130211322.rss”;
$xml [...]
Using site speed in web search ranking
Google as added yet another criteria to its algorithms to achieve good search ranking; speed of site. This can only be a good step in the right direction forcing designers and developers to ensure that their sites are optimized as much as possible.
The article has a number of references to some good free tools to [...]
Mind Over Matter Hypnotherapy in West Yorkshire – unlock your potential
Would you like to live your life with better health, greater happiness and increased confidence and success? Well you can make those positive changes with hypnosis! You can live your life the way you’ve always wanted, releasing bad habits, fears, and removing the limitations that are holding you back?
via Stop smoking or lose weight with [...]
Useful Article On Structural Tags in HTML5
You can start to build your new site now and be future enabled when HTML5 is widely accepted. See Structural Tags in HTML5 – Ordered List.
IP Location API, database and fraud detection tools
IPInfoDB provides a number of services that could be useful when developing a website including:
Web based IP geolocation lookup
IP geolocation API (XML, JSON and CSV format)
API that generate IP CIDR by country for iptables or htaccess blocklist
E-commerce fraud detection API
For example http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=82.27.34.78&output=xml&timezone=false will return the following XML.
<response>
<ip>82.27.34.78</ip>
<status>OK</status>
<countrycode>GB</countrycode
<countryname>United Kingdom</countryname>
<regioncode>Q5</regioncode>
[...]
Proper testing on older browsers!
There are a number of sites that provide a snapshot picture of a particular page of a website running on various version of browsers. But if you want to test your website thoroughly SPOON.NET offers a solution.
It allows you to run various browsers and versions from the Spoon web site and other Spoon Servers. To [...]
Hosted Testing of Web Sites
There are other providers of this service but I like Adobe® BrowserLab.
It is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them in [...]
Dewsbury Beer Festival
Developed new website for Dewsbury Beer Festival which is on May 20th to 22nd at the Town Hall which is in the centre of the town. For more information - Dewsbury Beer Festival.
