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What resolution should I design to?

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:52 Comments

Personally I try to use 960 for the width. the argument for using 960 was it’s divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 16 which means your grid options are endless, and of course it fits within the most popular 1024 width.
HOWEVER With the soon to be released I-Phone 4 working [...]

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The ultimate excel cheat sheet

Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:32 Comments

I use excel all the time and it can be irritating trying to remember that nice little trick you used 3 years ago.
This page has a great breakdown of the most common and some not so common.
Excel Cheat Sheet

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JQuery – Simple IE 6 Detection

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:48 Comments

A simple way to detect whether the web browser you are using is IE 6, this way allows any version of IE 6 to be picked up.
I’m sure there is a clearer way to do this so please feel free to improve but this certainly works.

$(document).ready(function() {
ie6catch [...]

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How to get the RSS feed for Google Buzz

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 15:21 Comments

I needed this for my Comments Page and at the minute the feed appears to be formatted differently to other RSS feeds. This is due to them not offering a JSON format yet.
There is a great JQuery solution for this the Google Buzz Widget.
They say:
This is a jQuery widget for the brand new social [...]

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Wordpress plugin to list a post category on a page / post

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 14:56 Comments

Very handy if like me you are using Wordpress as a content management system for those page hungry clients: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/
FYI this post is being displayed in the ‘Tit bits’ section thanks to this plugin.

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