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While idly experimenting with the newfangled, real-time Twitter Streaming API yesterday, I decided to have a little bit of fun, to try and make life a little more interesting! In the interests of innovation and openness, I thought I would take some time out to share these experiments with you…
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Steve wrote this on 07.01.10 – 7 comments
It's filed in the Development, Funny, twitter box
Do you have a project that you would like to discuss with us? Or perhaps you know someone who is thinking about how to implement their digital strategy for 2009 and could do with some useful, actionable input and direction?
If so, we are running a limited edition special offer to help you shine online. Check it out.
If we can’t be of assistance or if you are not satisfied with the results then we will send you a delicious cake from the lovely Brighton cake boutique Choccywoccydoodah. Mmm, how can you refuse such a tasty proposal?
“And if you want to know a little bit more about our practice areas and service offerings then check out our “What we do page”. This will give you guys, the wonderful NixonMcInnes audience, a little more information about the kind of work we are helping folks with.
Just so you know in case it is still not clear; we are a full service agency; this means that not only can our skilled social media consultants help you apply social media to your marketing strategy and help you use this medium to plan specific campaigns, but the consultants are backed up by a fully formed delivery team made up of talented developers and designers able to make your ideas for websites, widgets, applications, blogs, social media press rooms and anything else web wise a reality. You can even get to know the team in advance.
So go on, book your conversation with us now, we are ready, poised to listen to your challenges and lend a hand; guaranteed!
Just e-mail or pick up the phone:
ruth@nixonmcinnes.co.uk
01273 648315.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks to EpicFireworks for the image.
Ruth wrote this on 26.03.09 – 1 comment
It's filed in the Business, Buzz monitoring, Design, Development, Free things, Marketing, NixonMcInnes, Social media, Social networks, Strategy, Web analytics, Web technology box
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform, and is one of the updisputed darlings of the Open Source and Web 2.0 world, it’s fair to say we’re all avid users of the platform here at NM towers.
With a little creativity and imagination, it’s relatively simple to build some additional functionality around the core content of your website, using WordPress as the application framework. It’s perhaps a little unconventional to do this, if I were faced with building a Web application from scratch, WordPress wouldn’t be the first choice to spring to mind, however there may be good reasons for choosing WordPress, despite the stiff competition. If the heart and soul of your website requires a solid publishing platform, but you want to tack on a few bells and whistles, then I would say WordPress is a viable option.
WordPress introduced the concept of Pages way back in version 1.5, to allow for the creation and management of static content pages outside the normal blog chronology. This shifted WordPress away from a blogging platform, opening up new possibilities for using it as a CMS.
WordPress Pages are deceptively powerful little things, each page can be handled by a different template, and so is a potential window into a micro Web application. Having the ability to attach arbitrary bits of data to a page through Custom Fields strengthens this position.
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Steve wrote this on 25.04.08 – 7 comments
It's filed in the Blogging, Development, Web technology box
Blogging was never my specialty… until I used Wordpress to develop a blog for a client.
Wordpress is a Blog Tool and Weblog Platform.
Nowadays I love it! I wish I had more time to blog. I have a lot to say! :)
Back to the point… the new very much expected version of Wordpress 2.5!
I have just downloaded and installed my first version… I am so excited! Love to learn about new technologies and its updates.
What’s in it?
Telmo wrote this on 07.04.08 – 41 comments
It's filed in the Blogging, Development, Free things, Internet, Social media, Web technology box
I’m a big fan of YUI (the JavaScript framework from Yahoo!, not the pint-sized popstar from Japan – no offence, Yui), and have been using it fairly extensively on the soon-to-be-relaunched goedhuis.com.
The main reasons for the love of this particular JavaScript framework are the vast array of well-documented and robust features you get for free, all of which are backed up with clear and helpful real-world examples on the main YUI site. It’s a great resource and has been a joy to work with on this project, a credit to the talented engineers at Yahoo.
Rarely is anything that simple though, and there have been a few challenges along the way on this project. I’d like to share some of these in future posts, but one problem I came up against recently was getting sIFR to play nice with the YUI TabView component.
FYI, the TabView component renders ‘navigable tabbed content’ in a format that is accessible for all users of the web, and Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, or sIFR for short, is a rather snazzy method for rendering dynamic, accessible, rich typography in a web page, using a clever mix of Flash and JavaScript.
The particular issue I hit was with the sIFR-rendered Flash movies not displaying correctly, or even at all, when switching between tabs.
Fortunately, our friend TabView exposes a healthy dose of events that we can subscribe to, the ‘activeTabChange’ event being our knight in shining armour here.
Warning: non-technically savvy readers may wish to look away now…
Steve wrote this on 26.02.08 – 12 comments
It's filed in the Development, Web technology box
I was recently handed the monumental task of comparing the major players in the wonderful world of widget platforms. No mean feat, I can assure you, this turned into a mammoth undertaking of epic proportions (well, that may be stretching it a tad ;-). This is new and (relatively) unchartered territory and, although undoubtedly a new and exciting area of social media to be involved in, this meant it was tricky to nail down and collate the huge volumes of data and information into something palatable and useful that would enable us to deliver a whole host of wonderful widgets (be they destined for the web or desktop) using the right platform for the right client, and for the right price. Phew! Read more…
Steve wrote this on 22.11.07 – 17 comments
It's filed in the Development, Social media, Widgets box
Josh says ‘it’s done’.
Bollocks more like.
Since when was a website ever done? This website, blog, wiki or whatever it is now or turns into WILL NEVER BE DONE :)
Done means finished, completed, never to be touched again. The web isn’t like that.
Will McInnes wrote this on 17.11.07 – 11 comments
It's filed in the Development, Marketing, NixonMcInnes, Our sites box
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