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Archive for August, 2006

HTML pre-launch flight check

Friday, August 25th, 2006

AnyBrowser have a lot of tools for you to use when validating and preparing your website for deployment including:

Screen Size Test
Meta Tag Creator
HTML Validation
Link checking
Engine View (See how your site might get listed by search engine spiders.)

Not a bad list, don’t forget that ALL web developers should validate their pages, perform link checking and test […]

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A London gift

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Carl Orr is in town but only for a few days. Carl is truly a special guitarist and an old teacher of mine. In fact I even did his original wesite waaaay back in the day (please forgive it now!). Carl has been living in London for about 10 years so it was a long […]

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SWFObject

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I’ve been using SWFObject for quite a while now and it amazes me that developers out there still don’t know about it, especially with all the news around Microsoft’s EOLAS case late last year.
SWFObject is a tasty method for embedding Macromedia Flash content into your web pages and has (among others) the following functionality which […]

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