Today’s site is a design blog published by Stylish Web Design, and the niche is a collection of tips and tricks about computer and internet development - there’s some web design content, but the majority at present is concerned with desktop matters.
As for the design itself - stylish in the modern way of the powder blue and grey Arial business template with embedded video and personal icons for those that want them - true to say, blog design has come a long way from the early “here’s 10 posts on the front page, and like it”… One USP to set the blog apart from the many others in the niche is the calculated inclusion of personal content, just to lighten the tone a little - some might quibble, I don’t mind that sort of thing at all. Read more »
Admin Themes? What is that all about? Well, it’s obviously part of the masterplan, since the option became available.So what is the great attraction in having a skin to stare at while doing important things like editing posts, culling comments etc. Like skins for Firefox, these things do rather slow down productivity.
As usual, some clever plugins and articles have arrived, but… surely, only extreme narcissists need apply….
Well, they did say 5 years ago, that link directories were dead in the water and that Google had figured them out - not so, there still seems to be a fair few around the internet - one such quality directory is dirmania.org, a paid submission directory, although at the relatively nominal prices of $4 for a standard listing, and $7 for the premium, with the usual benefits.
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Jesse Garner (known as Jennifer to his friends) is setting out on the long march towards PR6 with BlogChemistry, promising the standard formula of WordPress themes and general PHP programming know-how…
He would always be welcoming of your support and am happy to offer mine to a mate… and we did let him borrow the “true sliding-doors” trick for the horizontal tabs.
I’ve looked and looked - for a perfect regex to grab a link off a page, for out-sourcers who can do Ruby, and also for a slideshow builder… There have been some that come close, but nothing perfect for the job - nowadays, in these brave new times of embedded content, I have basically given up and resorted to Flash… Read more »
The design portfolio is certainly visually impressive - launched client sites, (not just the usual scattering of demo sites and coming soons) - coming to you out of the West Midlands, UK, Web Sitedesign.net, offering web site design, e-commerce, web-based apps, branding, logos and crm software. Some of these sites, those in the e-commerce category in particular, are genuinely good, with effective layouts, competently built - and not too much Ajax sitting there amongst it all, my usual bete noire…
With seven years and more than 300 web projects down, it does take more than a snappy logo and a few bland and unlikely testimonials hanging there in quotes, to convince a client to buy the package nowadays - there’s competition about, not like the old days…
In terms of Sitedesign’s ecommerce solutions, they do seem to know how to chop up an osCommerce template pretty well - the one drawback with this ubiquitous software is that all the sites really do start to look the same after a while, to be able to bring some variety to this market is no bad thing at all.
So, as a UK-based development engineer, doing a lot of business with the US - it seems to have really taken off it the last 18 months or so - for UK sites looking to get out into international markets, though the dollar exchange rate is not so very wonderful at the moment, there’s skype to solve all the communication issues and as for the time difference, you really don’t notice it after a while - there’s no need for web design birmingham to involve Alabama any more…
Well, I remember when telnet was all we had - and computers were all green writing on a black background, and none of these silly images that get in the way all the time.
Pragmasys do telnet - Telnet Client - they also do SSH, because that’s how it all works - secure business applications that connect to a server, with or without encryption, allow its administration, data editing and management.
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There’s a new Alexa rank algorithm out - we previously knew Alexa rank to be meaningless except when it came to people like Text Link Ads using it as part of their calculation.
The main point appears to be less reliance on toolbar stats - as Alexa puts it, data is now gathered from a variety of sources, whatever they may be…
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So, this blog, and a couple of others, each get about 40% of their RSS subscribers using Google products - this according to Feedburner’s stats panel.
Google products meaning the snappily-named Feed Reader or iGoogle, the widgetised, personalised front page, clone of Netvibes and a few others…
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You’re getting an Intel chip, a disk and a motherboard - and told to get on with it.
Over the years, I have never quite understood how it is that since the average desktop is only a sum of its parts, there isn’t more of it - self-assembly, do it yourself desktops…
The site is How to Build a Computer and getting the product is simply a case of navigating the dropdowns, choose your operating system (which is XP or Vista, with Vista as the default), choose a monitor and media reader if you want. The graphics card is also optional in the package, which is nice, you’d think maybe the opportunity would have been taken to push something not completely suitable.
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