When a client approaches a design agency for a website either as a representative of a company or for themselves they should have assessed exactly what they are willing to pay for a website. If a client doesn’t have a budget then they really don’t need a website. The way I see it if a client isn’t prepared to figure out something so basic it’s a waste of time because more often than not these are the people that think they can get a website for £100.
Twitter plugin
Earlier in the year I was faced with an issue of integrating a Twitter feed into a website, problem was the website wasn’t using WordPress. At the time it appeared like every Twitter plugin available was built to integrate with the popular blogging platform. At the time I was able to hash together a working PHP function but over time problems kept coming up resulting in much needed improvements. Finally I think I have something that’s fairly indestructable.
IE inviting friends to the Windows 7 party?
After an initial decision to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7 following the anti-trust court ruling it appears Microsoft have come up with another solution. Rather not bundle IE they have offered is to add competitor browsers into the install and present options for users to choose which browser they require.
Although this solves the stupid idea of not having any browser it’s still a stupid idea and here’s why:
Coming down with a Fever
Lately my RSS feeds have gotten a little on top of me, mainly because I access them from a desktop aggregator on a PC I can go days without switching on. Although Twitter has become a good source of links not everything gets through. So I finally decided it was time to find a solution that truly worked for me.
The main problem I needed to solve would be to have access to my feeds from multiple computers, in multiple locations and probably on my phone too. The obvious solution would be Google Reader, but, and I can’t really explain why exactly, I didn’t want to use Google Reader or any other online aggregator really.