Archive for March, 2006

Why your hotel doesn’t show up in Google (clue: it’s not their fault)

Yazan: Mark | 11 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Web Authoring

There’s an article in the travel section of today’s Times, bemoaning the fact that you can’t find hotel websites in Google. I was sufficiently moved by it to send them this email:

Talk to your future self

Yazan: Mark | 09 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Website of the Day

Today’s website is www.futureme.org - a site that, in the words of the creators, is is “based on the principle that memories are less accurate than emails”. You can write yourself an email and then set it to be sent to you at some date in the future. I’m not entirely sure whether I think [...]

I’ll name that song in, er, fifty taps

Yazan: Mark | 08 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Website of the Day

Website of the day today is www.songtapper.com - a site that claims to be able to identify a song while you tap out the rhythm on your space bar. But it kept telling me that my song was Bohemian Rhapsody…

Nice cup of tea and a sit down

Yazan: Mark | 07 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Website of the Day

Today’s website of the day is www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com which, despite the name, is really more about biscuits than tea and sitting down. Complete with biscuit review of the week, and polls of the most popular (and least popular) biscuits, this is every biscuit-lover’s dream.

All about Lent

Yazan: Mark | 01 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Website of the Day

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. So for today’s website I’ve picked one which gives a good overview of what Lent is all about.
You can see today’s website of the day at: http://www.crivoice.org
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

Why you can’t have too much information in your database

Yazan: Mark | 01 March 2006 | No Comments
Categories: Web Authoring

This question was posted in uk.net.web.authoring:
I’ve got a site on the way, where I need to add products to a sort of simple shopping basket. The plan is to add a pair of values (UserID, ProductID) to a MySQL database for every product the user adds to the basket, and then get rid of them [...]

Websites of the day

Yazan: Mark | 01 March 2006 | 1 Comment
Categories: Website of the Day

I do a sort-of-daily “website of the day” slot on Cross Rhythms City Radio, at around 6.20pm during Rimmerama. These are the sites I’ve used so far:

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