About ten months ago, I attended an excellent course on Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) with the good folks at Edgeofmyseat.com. So when I had the opportunity last month to attend their newest course on HTML, I was interested. In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that I have worked with Edgeofmyseat.com for years. They [...]

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For almost a year now, I have been meaning to redesign the website for my company, lbdesign. Yet, for one reason or another, I have struggled to find the time and focus to do so … until now. So, without further ado, I invite you to surf on over to the new website at http://lbdesign.tv. [...]

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To mark Red Nose Day, why don’t we all change our avatars just for the day? Ok, so it’s a geeky thing to do, but hey, isn’t that what Red Nose Day is all about? Being silly to raise money and awareness about the less fortunate? So, go on, take a picture of yourself wearing [...]

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As the end of January rapidly approaches, I am delighted to announce the launch of an exciting work project that we’ve just completed over at lbdesign. Working with the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, we’ve launched the candle campaign to encourage people from all over the world to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides – [...]

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Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear chickenmonkeydog, Happy birthday to you! Today – 15 January 2009 – marks the one year anniversary of chickenmonkeydog, the blog that I create in conjunction with my fellow editor. If you’ve not visited chickenmonkeydog before, today would be a great day to change that. [...]

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Web developer, fan-of-cheese and, dare I say, cynic, Drew McLellan, is at it again. Drew has organised and launched another round of 24 Ways, complete with a revamped look and feel for 2008. 24Ways is a great little site that comes to life every Advent season. From 01 December to 24 December, Drew and Friends [...]

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I caught a programme on the BBC’s Radio 4 earlier this week. On the back of that interview, I cranked out a blog post that was better suited to publication via The Governance Partnership, than here on my own site. So, why not drift over the TGP site and read Online, content is king (and [...]

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Recently I was shown a little time saving technique for opening links in Firefox in a new tab. Rather than right click and select ‘Open Link in New Tab’, you can simply click on the wheel on the mouse. Voila! The links opens in a new tab. Brilliant stuff that! Thanks to my chickenmonkeydog co-editor [...]

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