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• Sussex geeks clash with London Web Standards Group

  14 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  I am planning to attend the 9th Sussex Geek Dinner (where Geoff Adams will talk abut Expression Engine) on 28th February but now find that it clashes with the London WSG meeting

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• Email campaigns made easy

  12 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  In recent weeks, I have been using Campaign Monitor to manage a small email newsletter for one of my own websites. I have to say I’m impressed. Campaign Monitor provides an easy-to-use interface which makes it a snap to set-up subscriber sign-ups from your website, import subscribers, design and import HTML and/or text content for the emails, and send campaigns. Best of all, it provides detailed statistics for each and every campaign you send.

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• Google provides more link data

  07 February 2007 by Clive Walker

  Google is providing much more link data if you are signed up with Google Webmaster Tools. The amount of information is much greater than using the link:operator in normal Google searches

• hReview in Textpattern

  24 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Jon Hicks has published a neat article describing one way of implementing the hreview microformat in Textpattern. Good idea.

• How to make double borders with CSS

  22 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  When you have a website deadline, it’s quite easy to fall into the ‘trap’ of sticking with tried and tested cascading style sheet (CSS) methods that you know and love. However, it can also be useful to try out CSS properties that you are not so familiar with. For me, this used to be the case with the border property. I used solid borders almost exclusively until I discovered that there were other possibilities including double borders [Ed: you need to get out more].

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• OpenStreetMap meets Sussex geeks

  18 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Last night, I attended the 8th Sussex Geek Dinner in Brighton where Mikel Maron described the OpenStreetMap project to about 20 or so geeks from Sussex.

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• How to use microformats to export your contact details

  16 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Shape Shed has written a nice article explaining how to use the hCard microformat and how to exploit the microformat data with a one-click 'add my details to your address book' link.

• Time your work with SlimTimer

  11 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Working as a freelancer, it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of how much time you spend on each client/project/job. SlimTimer makes it easy. Here's a short review of this great, free, web application.

• The future of Google?

  05 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Searchmash is a low-profile site by Google. It’s a search engine with some different features and I’d speculate that some of these may make it into Google itself in the future You might call it Google’s test area, perhaps?

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• Google music search

  03 January 2007 by Clive Walker

  Like me, you may have heard a song and searched for the song lyric and artist on Google. What was the name of that song and who sung it?! Well, here's something I didn't know.