Archive for the ‘Personal’ category

Latest Zumo Internet Launch: Orange Business Survey Petition

July 11th, 2009

We’ve launched another client project over at Zumo Internet and this one is pretty exciting. We worked with 2 other media companies to provide a new survey application for the Orange UK’s business site.

For our part we used jQuery, PHP and MySQL to write a custom built petition that triggers every nth visitor.

It’s a tiny part of a huge site, but nevertheless we are pretty chuffed to have been involved.

0×80040600 (how to fix a corrupt Outlook pst data file)

February 20th, 2009

Firstly thanks Microsoft for another of those beautifully crafted error messages.

I got one of these nice 0×80040600 Send and receive failed on all of my Outlook email accounts  and after an hour of Googling and fidgeting with my laptop I managed to get to the bottom of it and find the fix. So here it is. » Read more: 0×80040600 (how to fix a corrupt Outlook pst data file)

Web design in Spain from Zumo Internet

February 12th, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, but at last my company website for my services of web design in Spain has been launched.

The site promotes my services of web design in Spain (that is the most gratuitous bit of SEO I have ever undertaken in a post) and has been dangling around for 9 months as just a holding page. I decided to employ HTML 5 to develop the site just out of plain curiosity to learn. Although the elements in there make use of existing HTML elements rather than pushing the envelope too much.

It’s been a nail-biting, but exciting year for my fledgling business and slowly but surely enough clients have rolled in to give me a solid base to expand upon. I have more plans for the coming year, but nothing was ever going take precedence over the web site. It’s straight to the point at the moment but I intend to build upon it in the coming year to match the progress of the business. But for now, just enjoy it.

How to make your web 2 app accessible.

January 16th, 2009

This is the shortest article I have ever written on the subject of accessibility. For me it’s a comforting thought that it really is this simple to make a web 2.0 app accessible.

  1. Make a web site that works without JavaScript and follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
  2. Grab a library such as jQuery that allows you to inject your bells and whistles with an onload / document ready method and keep your JavaScript out of the body of your HTML.

More accessibilty techiques can be found at the recently re-launched Made For All.

More Made For All accessibilty articles online

January 7th, 2009

The remainder of the archived articles from the original made for all are online:

What strikes me when reading through these 5 year old articles is how relevant they all still are, more so with the growth in mobile browsing devices. With content from Ian Lloyd, Anitra Pavka , Joe ClarkGez Lemon and of course the author of this blog these articles are a little piece of the web that begged to be saved.

Made For All back online

January 6th, 2009

After a 6 year hiatus, Made For All, the first online publication about accessible web development is back online.

New articles are due soon that deal with accessibility and modern web development which has come along way since MFA was first published. I am proud to take the rein on the publication again and look forwards to producing more quality articles on creating accessible web content.

In the meantime, two old articles are now back online:

Letters about a letter.

August 1st, 2008

This is beautiful, funny and worrying at the same time. Giles Coren’s letter to the Times sub-editors about the removal of the indefinite article “a” from a sentence and the subsequent response.

Be warned – contains copious profanities, bad grammar and a glimpse into the tense realtionship between writers and sub-editors.

The Outsiders (part one).

July 24th, 2008

Southern Spain. An internet kiosk in the lobby of a residential block. A portly woman with two young children pulls up a chair and gazes at the screen.

“How come this is not in English?”

My Top Albums of 2007

January 4th, 2008

Drag and drop reordering of database fields (sortables) with Mootools

October 10th, 2007

This recipe follows on from the work done in my Scriptaculous Drag and Drop recipe, only using Mootools an alternative Javascript library that I have been using lately. I am not endorsing either library and I suggest you read both tutorials and see which one feels most comfortable for you, or choose depending on the library you currently use.

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