Whoops we did it again. Another Zumo programmed site has left the building, this time in the shiny coat of Summer Fields Prepartory School.
TMax Media designed the site and Zumo Internet cut the code and programmed the CMS and front end from start to finish with a smooth blend of XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and jQuery. More reason to trust us with your web site development.
Here’s a quick GOTCHA that may save at least one developer some time. Recently whilst working with some XML to import music into an mp3 download site I came across an issue accessing the values of specific nodes through the simplexml object that I created. The value always threw up zero.
The issue lies in node names containing hyphens, thus:
$object->album-title returns 0
The answer is to wrap the object property (node name) containing the hyphen in curly braces.
$object->{‘album-title’} returns “London Calling”
Here’s hoping that helps someone.
This is a software update loop that has been annoying me for a while now when Thunderbird tries to update itself on Windows. Well, before you go removing any files or removing Thunderbird and starting from scratch, try this somewhat abstract method. I’ll bet more times than not it works:
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.
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. Continue reading →
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.
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.
More accessibilty techiques can be found at the recently re-launched Made For All.
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 Clark, Gez Lemon and of course the author of this blog these articles are a little piece of the web that begged to be saved.
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:
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.