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RSPB LearnBirds

The RSPB required a web application through which they could provide learning material to people interested in birds and birdwatching. Once a user has logged-in they are presented with 6 different modules as well as access to the resource library which contains the RPSB Handbook of British Birds and Where to Watch Birds - Britain.

Read more about the RSPB LearnBirds project.

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Thursday 17th April 2008

OpenSearch

Yesterday, whilst working on a client’s Wordpress website I took the opportunity to implement a ‘quick search’ search feature. Using the OpenSearch standard, the ‘quick search’ is supported by Internet Explorer 7 and the latest versions of Firefox and the likes of Wikipedia, Google and Amazon already take advantage of the technology.

Thursday 6th December 2007

Flickr photo editing

A new feature that has been rolled out to all Flickr accounts is the ability to edit photos online. Through a service provided by picnik you are able to edit any of your photos using picnik’s Flash interface.
The interface allows you to perform quite advanced photo editing techniques on your photos such as, altering the [...]

Thursday 29th November 2007

Getting personal with SVN

Since we started using SubVersion (SVN) as a better way of managing code changes by the development team at work, I have started to use on my personal projects. Recently I configured a staging/testing server which is a mirror of the server configuration I run this website from, allowing me to test changes and developments [...]

Sunday 16th September 2007

Cross-browser, cross-platform web interface testing

I came across a really useful website earlier this week, Browsershots. Working as a Web Interface Designer it is the highest importance that everything looks shipshape across all platforms and browsers when designing websites although it isn’t always easy, accessible and affordable to do so.

Sunday 2nd September 2007

Del.icio.us Firefox plugin

I have long been a user of the del.icio.us Firefox plugin. Though I probably don’t use it as much as I’d like to I still find it handy for quickly bookmarking webpages that I’d perhaps like to revisit later or at home.
The development of the Firefox plugin has been steady with an update/bug fix of [...]

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