Automatically updating the copyright date on your website

My first post for a month, but a useful one nonetheless. It always paints a bad impression when you visit a website and the footer copyright says 2003. Basically the last time the web designer was involved with the client.
This handy snippet of code will make sure your site doesn’t look so obviously stale.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
var [...]

Favourite Firefox Extensions

Here is a quick list of my top Firefox extensions
Web Devloper toolbar
Essential for anyone who works on websites. My favourite features are

View Style Information
Very handy for editing CSS templates. You can pick the element you want to alter, and the extension will show you it’s properties and where to find it in the CSS files.
View [...]

Live streaming video from a plane!

Earlier today Digg.com founder, Kevin Rose, on board a Virgin America flight to New York, was able to stream live video from his laptop via the in-flight WiFi service.
This is pretty amazing, but are we really wowed by technology any more?
I think the really cool thing about this, is the power of social media to [...]

Choosing the perfect CMS

Smashing Magazine are carrying a post about how to choose the perfect CMS. There’s some pretty useful stuff in there and I’d recommend checking it out but I’d also add these couple of points.
Allow for Power-users
In the sales pitch for almost every CMS I’ve ever seen they talk about how it’s so easy to use [...]

Embedding Google Maps in Wordpress

I found a solution to the issue of Wordpress screwing up iFrame HTML when switching the editor from Visual to HTML mode. Thought I’d post a link to it here as it’s quite an elegant solution Just a test post for embedding iframe maps