Archive for the ‘tech-titbit’ Category
What resolution should I design to?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 3:52 CommentsPersonally 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 [...]
The ultimate excel cheat sheet
Saturday, March 13, 2010 9:32 CommentsI 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
JQuery – Simple IE 6 Detection
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 3:48 CommentsA 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 [...]
How to get the RSS feed for Google Buzz
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 15:21 CommentsI 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 [...]
Wordpress plugin to list a post category on a page / post
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 14:56 CommentsVery 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.


