Archive for: Web and Internet
Twitter Manga Avatars
Over the past couple of days a lot of Twitter users have been changing their avatars to “manga” versions of themselves. These images are created using Face Your Manga, a flash-based character creator similar to Mii. (more…)
Olive
Olive is a recently launched web app from Sarah Parmenter of You Know Who. If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to manage client project maintanence task and fees, Olive was built just for that. (more…)
A List Apart - The Survey 2008
It is time for the second annual Survey for People Who Make Websites. It’s not long, only took a few minutes to fill out and doesn’t try to identify you as an individual. If you’re in a web profession, freelance or part of a company, go fill it in.
.me is mine (or not)
Yesterday, GoDaddy started sales on .me domains. I watched the timer as it ticked down and as soon as it hit 0 I hit go on my two prepared searches for mike.me and mikerobinson.me. They were both available! Or so I was led to believe… (more…)
Form Mark-Up: Lists Are NOT Appropriate
Following on from my “Form Mark-Up: Are Lists Appropriate?” article last month, I’ve become more educated on the matter and changed my opinion. Don’t use lists in your form mark-up! (more…)
WooThemes - Premium Wordpress Themes
Recently launched, WooThemes offers Premium Wordpress Themes that are truly high quality. You can purchase these themes individually or join the themes club that states it is here to stay! (more…)
ChannelFlip Relaunch
It’s be a while since I originally wrote about ChannelFlip. They recently relaunched with a new website and show setup so I thought I would revisit this awesome UK video magazine to provide my thoughts. Also, they have the guys of Finite Comedy producing some of the content, so are they any good? (more…)
Form Mark-Up: Are Lists Appropriate?
Dustin Brewer posted an article about form mark-up and styling. The day before, Antonio Lupetti of Woork posted an article covering the same topic, but with a different approach. Both examples use lists, Dustin going for Definition Lists and Antonio using Unordered Lists. Forms can be styled without either, but if you want something fancy you need to add in more elements. Reader comments on Antonio’s article objected against the use of lists as they felt they weren’t semantic. Or are they? (more…)
Get a Gravatar
I’ve been using Gravatars here on akamike for a while, but never really spoken about them. To raise awareness I’ve put together a “What are Gravatars?” info page which is linked on every comment form. Hopefully more friendly faces will appear in the comments!
Why not take things a step further and add Gravatars to your own site/blog? They aren’t restricted to Wordpress and I know that I feel more compelled to read comments using them, so set them up!
I look forward to seeing more smiling faces :)
Download Day 2008
The Mozilla Foundation has set up Download Day 2008, to mark the attempt for the most downloads in a day. On the release of Firefox 3, download it. That’s all you have to do. You can also sign-up to pledge your download which will send you an email when Firefox 3 is available and reports about the event. (more…)
