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Entries Tagged as 'Tips & Techniques'

How to Confuse Your Website Readers with Underlines

June 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Is your website a came of “which link is a real link?” Do readers try to click on what they think is a link only to find that it is actually just underlined text?
If so PLEASE go and fix it now!
Over the past few weeks I have been coming across many sites that have [...]

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Facebook accused of privacy violation - again!

June 2nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Late last year I dipped my toe in the deep water that is Facebook. It was interesting to catch up with friends I hadn’t contacted in a while but that’s as far as the interest went for me. After a while the idea of being “poked” or receiving “wall comments” held little appear.
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Reader Question - What are Gravatars?

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Q- I’ve notice more and more blog comments have pictures of the commentor (or another cartoon image) next to their comment. I was wondering what the are and how do I get one?
The images that you are noticing are called Gravatars - a shortened version of the full name Globally Recognised Avatars. An [...]

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How to Use and Understand Flickr Images

March 10th, 2008 · 15 Comments

iStockphoto is a favourite image resource with many readers here, but did you also know that you could be tapping into the hugh repository of images by both professional and amateur photographers at Flickr?

Image by *L*u*z*a*
There are 2 main things that stop many small business owners using Flickr images online or in other [...]

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