Archives for August 2007

I wish for writers’ accounts

I’m writing a website / book for community groups about using Internet technology. As part of this I need to log in to all kinds of services and make screenshots as I work through some basic procedures. It so happens I already have logins on a lot of services: Basecamp, WordPress.com, Flickr and so on, […]

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Customizing WordPress: Using Plugins

Back in Awash in articles: WordPress, Internet, Mac and more I mentioned a new series of articles for Informit. Number 2 was published recently over on the Peachpit Web Design Reference Guide: Customizing WordPress: Using Plugins: Plugins extend the capabilities of WordPress enormously. While some start work the moment you activate them, others need to […]

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Software for shallow pockets

Big corporations with deep pockets pay (hundreds of) thousands to get tailor-made software developed. My budget would stretch to more like $20 on a good day. Which is why microPledge may be just the thing for others with shallow pockets: What is microPledge? The big buzz-phase is “collaborative funding”. But basically it’s a website that […]

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Code Blacks to continue work with Grampians

One of the problems community groups have is when people want to do stuff for them, rather than with them. While the Full Code Press challenge organisers had some plans in place for keeping an eye on things, it’s thrilling to read that the Code Blacks have volunteered an ongoing relationship: The true winners, though, […]

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Full Code Press winners

OK, the results are in and the winners of the Full Code Press event are of course the two community groups, who ended up with a free, professional website. The winning team though are the CodeBlacks: The CodeBlacks have won FullCodePress! In an extremely close decision, the judges have gone with the New Zealand team. […]

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FullCodePress beneficiary organisations

Now that Full Code Press is in full swing we can reveal the two non-profit groups to benefit from the competition: The Ripple Effect (Team Australia) The Ripple Effect is a development initiative organised and run by young Victorians for rural Thai communities. The project involves funding community driven initiatives that improve the quality of […]

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WordPress internals

Leonid Mamchenkov is writing a very useful blog called WordPress Bits: Hacking WordPress. Keeping the bits together. His blog is for people who want to work with WordPress to make sites. As he says: this web site is going to focus on in particular: WordPress customizations. WordPress development. WordPress internals. WordPress as web application framework. […]

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Real life usability

In Kilbirnie, one of the few flat parts of Wellington, there’s the Rita Angus Retirement Village. It’s quite attractive and has an appealing brick wall around it, with pleasing iron gates at intervals for foot traffic. The Rita Angus Retirement Village opened in March 2001. The site is located in Coutts Street, close to the […]

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FullCodePress teams: on your marks!

This weekend the FullCodePress geek web-design Olympics take place in Sydney. Event opening: 9am Saturday Teams begin work: 9.30am Saturday Teams stop work: 9.30am Sunday Winners announced: 12.00pm Sunday The two teams will be building their websites online, and you can watch the progress on the two websites in real time. The web addresses will […]

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The dangers of Copy and Paste

Griffin’s Tech Blog at the NZ Herald makes some interesting points today in his article: Covering your digital tracks. I’ve advised clients before now to log out of services they use while on a shared computer (webmail, banking, etc), but have never thought about the perils of Copy and Paste or trashed files. Griffin writes: […]

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Better business writing on the web

These days pretty well anyone who writes anything sooner or later finds that content online: either on the Internet or on the company’s Intranet. Rachel McAlpine’s brand new book, “Better Business Writing on the Web” is now available. She describes it as: A new book for contented authors The title reflects the hard-to-convey fact that […]

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What time was that?

Hooray! The people at Inside AdSense truly grasp that they have an international audience. Their system will be down for a couple of hours: … from 10am to 12pm PDT. …For our international readers, we’ve converted the maintenance start time for a few cities around the world: Toronto — 1pm SaturdayLondon — 6pm SaturdayCairo — […]

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