“Hints and Tips” Category
| 03 Sep 2010 | Inspired By: Old Time Radio The importance of tone/mood/theme. |
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| 13 Jul 2010 | Pause A Flash Game With stage.frameRate A slightly hacky trick. |
| 24 Jun 2010 | Automatic Content Filtering Is ****ing Difficult Poor old Scunthorpe. |
| 24 May 2010 | The First Rule Of Tech Support “Avoid doing it”? |
| 31 Mar 2010 | Who’s The Boss? Laying down the ground rules. |
| 17 Mar 2010 | Login/Log In, Logout/Log Out “Pedants Corner”/“Pedants’ Corner” |
| 19 Feb 2010 | Harnessing Boredom Or rather the desire to avoid it. |
| 26 Jan 2010 | Revolting Listeners thesixtyone’s controversial redesign. |
| 08 Jan 2010 | Posting Scores To Twitter From Flash Games The easy approach. |
| 02 Nov 2009 | Templates For Displaying iPhone Screenshots A few suitably-sized PNGs. |
| 22 Oct 2009 | The Cynical Web Developer’s Manifesto Three simple tenets. |
| 16 Oct 2009 | Using OpenID With Your Own Domain Delegation’s what you need. |
| 15 Oct 2009 | ‘Decommissioning’ Online Marketing Campaigns Reuse and recycle. |
| 12 Oct 2009 | Domain As Identity Having an online place to call your own. |
| 01 Oct 2009 | Optimising Your Web Site (a little) For The iPhone The quick’n’easy basics. |
| 29 Sep 2009 | Breaking News: Sites Have Breaking News Over now to our correspondent… |
| 25 Sep 2009 | MAMP PRO An easy way to work locally on multiple sites. |
| 03 Mar 2009 | Flash Games Finickiness ‘Finickiness’ is a real word, I checked. |
| 21 Feb 2009 | Never Trust Clients The unintentional generosity can be costly. |
| 12 Jan 2009 | Setting An Example Domains reserved for documentation. |
| 15 Dec 2008 | Faster Flash Speeding up games and animations. |
| 04 Dec 2008 | Flash Text With Solid Outlines/Shadows A simple filter trick. |
| 14 Oct 2008 | A House of Cards The perils of dependencies. |
| 26 Jun 2008 | What do you mean, you forgot? Details for the to-do list |
| 06 Jun 2008 | Geek Makeover In movies they just do their hair & remove glasses. |
| 14 May 2008 | Saving Memory on Media Temple’s (dv) Hosting Simple tweaks, big gains. |
| 05 May 2008 | Must… Avoid… Cache/Caching Pun… Optimisation through reuse. |
| 21 Apr 2008 | Making Buttons ‘Bobble’ A simple CSS effect. |
| 18 Apr 2008 | Interchangeable Form Elements Same data, different user interface. |
| 15 Apr 2008 | Missing Scrollbars In Mac Firefox 3 An obscure but irritating quirk. |
| 09 Apr 2008 | A Shinier, Tastier Green Apple An eco-friendly ecommerce redesign. |
| 10 Mar 2008 | The Dark Art of LOLspeak With great power comes great responsibility. |
| 26 Feb 2008 | The Downside of Uploads Another extra burden imposed by IE. |
| 21 Feb 2008 | stropS iiW Try upside-down with eyes closed? |
| 20 Feb 2008 | Using the Vista Fonts Without Vista Install them in XP for free. |
| 27 Jan 2008 | Think Before Doing Why not keep the planning bit separate? |
| 14 Jan 2008 | Get The Wii Internet Channel For Free It’s a bit of a faff. |
| 19 Dec 2007 | Hiding CSS From IE5 A conditional comments example. |
| 12 Dec 2007 | Flash’s Custom Stroke Styles Making lines less plain. |
| 28 Nov 2007 | isthissitepointless.com Short answers to simple questions. |
| 13 Nov 2007 | PHP preg Pattern Pitfall Watch out for those trailing newlines. |
| 26 Oct 2007 | In Defence of PHP Short Tags Questioning the conventional wisdom. |
| 24 Sep 2007 | Opting Out of Image Searches How to exclude your pics from being spidered. |
| 05 Sep 2007 | ADSL Microfilters Better filtering might make a difference. |
| 28 Jul 2007 | Mac Backups With Mozy Protecting data from fire and burglars. |
| 11 Jul 2007 | Project/Account Management For Dummies Repeat after me… |
| 23 Jun 2007 | Switch to Fast User Switching No more disputes over that LOLcat wallpaper. |
| 15 Jun 2007 | Miscellaneous Advice Link Dump Just a few links about work and hiring. |
| 07 Jun 2007 | “I have new mail…?” How to get at messages lurking within OS X. |
| 03 Apr 2007 | Using HTTP Status Codes Errors for all occasions. |
| 26 Mar 2007 | Typing Curly Quotes, Accents, etc. In OS X Put that Option/alt/funny-symbol key to good use. |
| 12 Mar 2007 | Unicode-friendly PHP and MySQL Getting web applications to think in UTF-8. |
| 02 Jan 2007 | OpenDNS Update New European servers and cache checking/refreshing. |
| 06 Dec 2006 | How to Win a Million (More Often) And make Alex Tew even richer. Bah. |
| 04 Dec 2006 | Spam: The Movie A trick for sneaking video into email. |
| 31 Oct 2006 | Top Ten Timewasting Techniques How to avoid getting things done. |
| 13 Oct 2006 | Telephone Number Usability Death to (0) ! |
| 10 Oct 2006 | ISP DNS RIP Something to try if your surfing slows. |
| 26 Sep 2006 | Tooniversity Learning about/with comics and cartoons. |
| 18 Sep 2006 | Selling Jobs Niche recruitment and job ads with personality. |
| 14 Sep 2006 | Tweaking WordPress Page Titles Improve most themes with a snippet of code. |
| 04 Sep 2006 | Securing OS X’s Personal Web Sharing Keep prying eyes away from work in progress. |
| 18 Aug 2006 | Setting Up Apache, PHP, MySQL, .htaccess and mod_rewrite in OS X I think the title says more than enough. |
| 13 Aug 2006 | Pet Project Ideas are cheap. This one’s free. |
| 03 Aug 2006 | malevole Redesign: Front-end Features So what stuff will people see? |
| 16 Jul 2006 | Optimising Email The neverending quest to make it flexible and reliable. |
| 20 May 2006 | Awkward Email Even the simplest of formats can be surprisingly tricky. |
| 08 May 2006 | Pinging Bloglines Feed your subscribers faster. |
| 05 May 2006 | New, Improved Flash ‘Fuzzy Felt’ More dragging and dropping. |
| 02 May 2006 | Work Less, Earn More Being busy isn’t a good thing in itself. |
| 01 May 2006 | April Link Dump Dinosaurs, email, stick figures, design, modelling, drums, video, text and clutter. |
| 20 Apr 2006 | The Blogger Strikes Back Tools for tackling ‘splogs’. |
| 19 Apr 2006 | Keeping It Stupidly Simple Approach nifty interface gimmicks with caution. |
| 08 Apr 2006 | Serial Scrounger How much cash will a million people donate? |
| 28 Mar 2006 | malevole Redesign: Aims What’s the point? |
| 20 Mar 2006 | Pranklets Far nicer than clingfilm on toilet seats. |
| 16 Mar 2006 | Preventing Prefetching Putting greedy browsers on a bit of a diet. |
| 10 Mar 2006 | Keeping Flash Active Internet Explorer update forces changes to sites. |
| 05 Mar 2006 | malevole Redesign: Getting Really Real A plan for planning a project. |
| 27 Feb 2006 | Settling Into A New Home Fingers crossed after moving hosting firms. |
| 22 Feb 2006 | February Link Dump Bears, water, politics, web dev and fonts. |
| 07 Feb 2006 | Selective Google Adsense and Firefox Ads Detect search engine referrals and Internet Explorer. |
| 22 Jan 2006 | Flash the Cash Don’t act too coy about your finances. |
| 14 Jan 2006 | Finishing Touches: Prettier Printing Making sure sites look their best on paper. |
| 02 Jan 2006 | New Year Link Dump Clearing out miscellaneous bits’n’pieces. |
| 23 Dec 2005 | iPod USB Charging Problem Don’t let it screw up the battery life. |
| 26 Nov 2005 | Finishing Touches: Avoiding Caching Glitches Prevent old style sheets from hanging around. |
| 23 Nov 2005 | Alexa and Your WHOIS Info Keeping domain registration details off the web. |
| 16 Nov 2005 | Flash ‘Fuzzy Felt’ Really simple drag’n’drop scripting. |
| 05 Nov 2005 | Finishing Touches: Fonts Tweaking typography using less obvious font choices. |
| 27 Sep 2005 | Software Development Myths A few misconceptions about programming. |
| 18 Sep 2005 | Encyclopedic Internationalisation Using Wikipedia as an example of I18n best practice. |
| 13 Sep 2005 | Email Injection Attacks Got a contact form? Make sure it’s safe. |
| 08 Sep 2005 | Even Fewer Popups with Firefox How to close a popups-from-plugins loophole. |
| 04 Sep 2005 | Finishing Touches: Useful URLs The address bar is part of your site’s interface. |
| 14 Aug 2005 | Finishing Touches: Presenting Feeds ‘RSS’? ‘XML’? ‘All a bit of a mess’? |
| 11 Jul 2005 | Finishing Touches: Search Engine Optimisation How to avoid throwing away free traffic. |
| 15 Jun 2005 | Similar Templating Using just a dash of server-side coding to build up simple pages. |
| 06 Jun 2005 | Finishing Touches: Block Quotes Neatly displaying quoted chunks of content and their sources. |
| 22 May 2005 | Google Web Accelerator Aftermath Lessons learned from the publicised problems. |
| 10 May 2005 | To Have and to Withhold Don’t get screwed by the wedding photographer. |
| 01 May 2005 | Add Google Maps’ Directions to Your Site Help people to find you with a simple little form. |
| 23 Apr 2005 | Using Flash’s Local Shared Objects for Good, Not Evil Add nifty features with Flash’s answer to cookies. |
| 17 Apr 2005 | Useful Stuff: Writing Online tools and resources for spelling, grammar and style. |
| 05 Apr 2005 | Master of Your Domain Definitely not a ‘Seinfeld’ reference. |
| 02 Apr 2005 | Finishing Touches: Opacity Rollovers Add a translucency effect to linked images. |
| 26 Mar 2005 | Empty Niches Has every weblog idea been done already? Not quite… |
| 19 Mar 2005 | Minimalist Menus Keeping interactive systems simple. |
| 28 Feb 2005 | Finishing Touches: Text Inputs Slightly slicker form styling. |
| 26 Feb 2005 | “We’re Doomed!” “Don’t Panic!” Perhaps I’m a bit too jumpy to be a professional sysadmin. |
| 24 Feb 2005 | Finishing Touches: Permalinks Fine-tuning weblog entries’s links. |
| 08 Feb 2005 | Finishing Touches: Code Blocks Producing prettier program listings. |
| 13 Jan 2005 | Finishing Touches: Emphasis Highlighting the key point in each weblog entry. |
| 05 Jan 2005 | Remote Scripting for Dummies Resources for developers getting started with XMLHttpRequest. |
| 01 Jan 2005 | Finishing Touches: Styled Keys Applying CSS to the kbd tag to display keyboard controls. |
| 22 Dec 2004 | Finishing Touches: External Links Automatically adding little icons to signpost the emergency exits. |
| 15 Dec 2004 | Mapped Out For some reason delivery firms still aren’t making full use of map data. |
| 03 Nov 2004 | Submit Yourself to the Button Yield! Surrender! Give in to authority! |
| 02 Nov 2004 | Gmail Precautions Keeping your account secure from prying eyes. |