Archive
November 2009
19Nov
This evening I was informed that the ability to add a comment to my site was broken. After a quick test sure enough it was broken. You would have thought I would have figured something was amiss when with so much traffic recently I got absolutely no comments. Well I was still getting spam so I’m blaming that for throwing me off the scent. that threw me off the scent.
Anyways it appears I’ve got the system working again now, although not quite how I’d like. So it’ll be a case of having a look through it all again sometime, amazingly the comments pages were the one area I didn’t touch when redeveloping the site so I’m at a loss to know what went wrong.
If anyone did have problems commenting before I’d still love to hear from any of you via the comments or the contact form. Thanks.
19Nov
The 404 page is one of the most imaginatively designed web pages in a person’s website. A page totally unrestricted by elements such as navigation and headers that are common on most websites. My own 404 page was very bland; it looked exactly like the rest of the website and had only a few links back to the main website. It was ugly and barely helpful.
Redesigning my site provided the challenge to have a go at doing something more creative.
Continue reading “What to do with a 404 page”
16Nov
OK, so Smush.it isn’t actually broken but when Yahoo took over the company it’s most useful feature appeared to vanish.
When Smush.it was first released a user was able to insert the top level domain of a website and have Smush.it crawl the entire site and CSS files for images to optimise. When Yahoo took over the only ways to optimise images are to do it page by page or upload a maximum of 5 images at a time. Both these options are far from ideal.
What to do
The solution is so simple, I’m not sure why it took me so long to figure it out. If the best you can do is use the YSlow plugin to smush images displayed on a single page then all that is required is for that single page to be created to display all the images within a website.
Continue reading “Fixing Smush.it”
8Nov
Some of the response’s I have had since revealing my new site design has been great and really unexpected. One such unexpected response was that from Luc Arnold over at Spicy Web Designers:
I wanted to say that I really enjoyed checking out your portfolio of work. You’ve got a keen eye for design. I also wanted to ask if I could interview you for my site, SpicyWebDesigners.com? I look forward to hearing from you.
Firstly having someone email me was pretty cool, as least the contact form works, but to be interviewed was something I’d not done before, but I thought what the hell, I may as well give it a go.
Some of the questions I was asked to answer weren’t quite what I was expecting, but like I said I’ve not done this before so I’m not quite sure exactly what I was expecting.
Anyway the interviews now live so go and have a look; hopefully it’s an enjoyable read.