News, tips, tricks and tutorials

In this section you will find news, tips, tricks and tutorials about web design/development, graphic design and e-marketing. Hopefully, some will give you ideas for your business. If you have any questions or suggestions about the articles, please comment on them in case there is someone else reading the website who will find it useful.

An updated Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet

What follows below is a variation on the Tweetie for Mac bookmarklet that comes “included” from atebits, the Tweetie for Mac developer.

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Posted on: 15th May, 2009 in Software,

Bookmarklet to add the currently viewed web page to Omnifocus

A couple of problems I came across whilst using OmniFocus were that:

  • whilst on the Mac the the ‘Add to Inbox’ keyboard shortcut doesn’t work inside Firefox
  • when I am away from my Mac (i.e. at work on my PC) I have no way to send stuff into OmniFocus for later (of course, I could use the iPhone app, but typing out long protracted URLs isn’t the best use of my time!)

So I set about writing a bookmarklet for my browser that would take the web page I’m looking at, wrap it up in an Gmail/Google Apps email and send it to an ‘unused’ email address (I use my MobileMe one) so that later, when I start up Mail.app on my Mac OmniFocus would process them into its inbox.

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Posted on: 13th Mar, 2009 in Software,

Getting started with Search Engine Optimisation

I was going to write an article about SEO, giving some simple advice and examples as it is a question I get asked about all the time. But Chris Coyier over on CSS tricks wrote an article just like I had envisaged recently, and to be honest, I couldn’t put it better myself.

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Posted on: 13th Mar, 2009 in Marketing,

Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use

In what is going to undoubtedly prove unpopular amongst the businesses already using the service, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone (no relation) has hinted that they are looking to create commercial accounts that businesses will need to pay for if they want to continue to use the service.

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Posted on: 12th Feb, 2009 in Marketing,

Citroen unveils refreshed logo - looks sadder :(

Citroen, the car manufacturer, has unveiled its new logo, but I can’t help thinking it looks sadder than ever. It essentially looks like two unhappy mouths on top of each other - think smileys - :( .

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Posted on: 12th Feb, 2009 in Design,

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