Nick and Ian make a shiny new website for Podcamp Halifax in a night or two or three. Check it out at podcamphalifax.ca! A couple cool things we did are CSS “sliding doors” buttons for the main navigation, so we can use nice graphical buttons that are also use plain text so they’re dynamic and resize when edited in...
Read more →It’s way easier then it sounds, at least what we’re going to do. When people share your site (or a page or blog post from your site) on Facebook, it tries to find the title, a description, and an image automatically. Sometimes the things you’d prefer to have there don’t show up, or the user has to click through a...
Read more →Ah, one of the most-asked questions re: Web stats like Google Analytics. Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that leave your website after viewing one page, i.e. they come to your site then “bounce” (bounce bounce come on bounce). So, a bounce rate for any given page means that X% of people who landed on that page left...
Read more →Which is one of the reasons the iPad will win over other tablets like the iPhone has claimed special place in owners’ pockets and hearts. Apple pays attention to detail. More-so than any other company. The way the screen feels is perfect, and no accident. They got the coefficient of friction down, I mean it is a touch device,...
Read more →For those of us who have more than ten website accounts in Google Analytics it’s a real pain clicking the “next” buttons to see all your numbers at a glance and get to your important sites. I’ve even renamed accounts to get stuff on (or off) the first page of the list. And then there it was. Just bookmark this...
Read more →Update August, 26, 2010: Well as it turns out, the day after I posted this we got invited to a Basecamp project with another firm, and the note for the option to use an existing account is now to the right of the form instead of at the bottom. So, great! You may have already heard of a Web...
Read more →Last time we asked Jonathan Frakes (aka Cmdr. William T. Riker of the USS Enterprise) what our next burger theme should be. His response? The Roswell Alien Burger. And what did we come up with? Some may claim it’s just a weather balloon, but oh no, what we have here is 100% New-Mexican gray alien. Mixed with chopped jalapeno,...
Read more →If you’re a fan of spicy like us, this burger’s for you. Starting form scratch as always, we turn few simple ingredients turn into a delicious adventure. Grilling to perfection, just a cheese-melting away. And there we have it. The Mexican, aka Siesta Grande. A 1/2 pound beef patty stuffed with diced jalapenos, topped with aged cheddar, onion, tomato,...
Read more →The last weekend in May brought us the second annual iHackathon (formerly iPhone Hackathon) for Charity, because yes, we had iPads this year! On the weekend they were released in Canada in fact, but a bunch of us had acquired them early. Quite possibly the highest concentration of iPads in HRM. But I digress… The turnout this year was...
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