I’ve previously written on implementing twitter cards on wordpress and in a comment on that post was asked if it could be achieved for blogger. The answer is of course yes, and I found a number of articles claiming to achieve it, but none really seemed straightforward to me, so here’s my own recipe. (To […]
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How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, […]
CSS Tip: Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning
I was having a little problem with styling a WordPress/Genesis Author Box. The normal layout is that there is an avatar in the top left hand corner around which the text flows- like this: However, what the client wanted was for the all text to be indented, in a neat column to the right of […]
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Terminology untangled – anchor text and links, or how to make them work for you.
I think we’ve got to a point now, if you’ve made it to this website, where you know what a URL is. (I’m not talking about what it stands for, which is Uniform Resource Locator, but what it is.) It’s that thing you type in the address bar to get to a website – it […]
Terminology untangled: domain names, DNS and hosting.
When you go to set up a website, it can be rather confusing trying to decipher the jargon. People throw around terms like domain names, URL, hosting, DNS, and it can be difficult at best to work out what is what. I think that’s part of the reason people often start with free sites like […]