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 [...]

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

New Fianna Fail website

Fianna Fáil pulled a bit of a bait and switch on the launch of their new website. Lured by the promise of a talk by Joe Rospars the new media director of the Obama campaign, a bunch of Irish bloggers and internet types were disappointed to find out that the talk was only to last [...]

Google analytics

Google analytics is a fantastic service, and free. But sometimes the amount of features can be daunting and it’s difficult to know where to start. I’m sure their help files are choc full of useful information but this post from grokdotcom.com has some really neat videos explaining some of the better features.