Your Adjustable Screen Size Website

Jul 242009
 

Wuru, a UK Small Business Directory, added a cool little javascript to their site that allows users to adjust the website width between 800, 1024, and liquid.

Giving Users More Options

When I first saw this I didn’t even know what it was. I knew the adjustable font size icons on the left, but brackets? Those cool little icons allow you to adjust the size of a website, and after seeing those I began thinking that would be a neat little option for browsers. It also gave me another idea for a website, the hide all images icons. It might come in handy if you were to visit Wuru’s Dating Directory UK. I’m not looking for a date, I swear. I just had to do an analysis on it. Continue reading »

Tweet Back

Jan 082009
 

tweetbackI am sure most of you bloggers are familiar with the term pingback, and are most likely familiar with the service called Twitter. What do they have in common? Well if it was a few days ago I would say nothing, but then their was Dan Zarrella. Dan had the brilliant idea of creating Tweet Backs.

Tweet Backs lists tweets that were made about your post. You can see an example of it working right here on this post, assuming someone tweets it. The script works great, and I love the idea. It does have one problem though. It runs on his server. I guess he didn’t expect it to be so great, and the popularity is starting to heat that server up. It could be because it only takes one line of code, and is a snap to install.

Already, TweetBackRedux

So already there has been a fix to the slow server issue. Jeremy Hilton has created a version all nicely zipped up for you so you can install and run the script on your own server. It is what I have chose to do. Simply unzip or tar the file and follow the three step installation process.

Download page for TweetBackRedux – Run the script on your own server.

Update: On Feb. 16th, 2009, I terminated the script. See Why

Text Menu with Style

Jul 172008
 

My last post was about how a site missed the opportunity to use text in their menu. They used graphics, and SEO wise, it not a great idea. It will also fail you if someone visits your site, and their browser does not load images. An example of this might be a pda. Well, here is a great example of making your menu with text, but still giving it some style. Check out this Website Design Company.

If you look at the left menu underneath the logo you will see the menu items appear like graphics, especially when you hover over, but really, they are not images. They are text with style. The style has not been made with the usual CSS style sheet, but with JavaScript. I did a little check of my stats from one of my busier sites, and found 98% of the visitor’s browsers supported JavaScript. I think you are safe to use. In the case of the Michigan design site, they also supported their menu with just plain text in the footer of the site. Double SEO factor, and usability supported.

If you are looking for some cool JavaScript’s to give similar effects as Michigan Website Design, check out Script.aculo.us

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