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He’s a miracle, Saviour of the universe, King of the impossible – Cash Gordon

tom — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:04:33 +0000

Any number of things are wrong with the tory’s comically bad attempts to smear Gordon Brown, here’s a list:

There’s a lot of actual shit things about New Labour they could talk about (although to be fair to the tories most of these things are tory policy)
Making me think of Flash Gordon means I’ve got Queen and Brian Blessed stuck on a loop in my head, which is a good thing
Complaining that a union, which about 4% of voters are members of, has an unfair say in Labour policy, when you’re run by a 1 guy who’s a thieving billionaire scum bag who only cares about increasing his already obscene wealth, is a bit off.
Oh, and you fucked it up completely:
- Congratulated themselves for doing a great job before the shit hit the fan (and even if it hadn’t there’s only 617 people signed up)
- Didn’t understand how twitter, or html injection worked
- Caused a funny graph to be made
- and got a torygraph stooge to say it was teh hax0rs

The internet is great

YANT

tom — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:29:47 +0000

(Yet another nerdy t-shirt) but one with a romantic angle

Keming

tom — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:34:37 +0000

The result of improper kerning [via]

The :not selector in CSS3 (and jQuery) is so brilliant I might cry

tom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:15:18 +0000

This could’ve been a tweet, but fuck it.

The new Beeb style guide

tom — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:19:54 +0000

looks good [via]

If you don’t know html & css then you’re not a web designer

tom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:48:30 +0000

You’re a graphic designer, and there’s nothing wrong with that it’s a completely legitimate career. But you’re not a web designer, drawing websites in Photoshop makes you a web designer in the same way that this image makes me an architect.

Facebok Login

tom — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:40:50 +0000

Username

Password

Obviously this doesn’t do anything, I just thought it’d be funny with the recent login kerfuffle, especially with the intentional misspelling of Facebook I might get a few hits on Google. I’m aware that I’m a bastard.

Getting SEO advice from your webhost…

tom — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:36:53 +0000

…is like getting advice on what to say to your customers on the phone from BT

A guide to Search Engine Optimisation for clients of web design companies

tom — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:15:55 +0000

A lot of clients who hire some designers to design & build their website will pay a third party for SEO, often too much relative to what their paying for the design and development. Here are the steps you need to follow for budgeting.

Take the number of sales you make to Search Engine’s spiders (which is 0)
Prefix it with your local currency’s symbol (for UK visitors £0)
Spend that much on SEO
Take the money you were going to spend on SEO and hire a copywriter.

Because good content is important, maybe if it was called Potential Customer Experience Optimisation (PCEO™) clients would pay silly money for it.

New Design

tom — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:10:45 +0000

There are 2 reasons for the new design

I’m working at 5mm for the next couple of days and as there’s absolutely nothing planned in the tech world for that time I figured it would be interesting to talk about my use of CSS3 selectors.
The old version was over designed…

Theres a few bugs in IE, who cares?