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24tips Christmas bonus: build RSS feeds from any listing

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Steph

25 Dec: Happy Christmas! Here’s a little get-it-while-you-can Christmas bonus tip. Even in this day and age, plenty of sites don’t make it easy to grab RSS feeds of listings of news, articles, speeches, publications, consultations or whatever. The creators … Continue reading →

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24tips: share code snippets

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Steph

16 Dec: even if you’re not a professional developer, chances are you need to share snippets of code now and again – maybe emailing a colleague that Google Analytics tracking code snippet, or the template for a special CMS page, … Continue reading →

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24tips: the pre-launch website checklist

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Steph

15 Dec: There’s more to putting a new website live than just having the (internal) client’s approval that the design looks nice. There’s remembering to make sure it looks OK in different browsers, checking you’ve added the website analytics tracking … Continue reading →

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24tips: hand-picked tools and techniques for doing web stuff cheaply

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Steph

It’s holiday season, as our charming American friends would say, perhaps in a leaked diplomatic cable. To celebrate this Wintervalian festival of giving, I’m sharing one helpful web tool or technique every day from now to Christmas. I won’t be … Continue reading →

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A Load of Cobblers: my tumblog on the favourite tools I use

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Steph

Just a quick one to flag for readers who get my stuff by RSS that I’ve got a parallel tumblog alongside this main blog, which I use to post up quick reviews of tools that I like for web work. … Continue reading →

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Which constituency is that in?

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Steph

I’m learning that old skool stakeholder engagement involves a lot of spreadsheets. We needed to work out which UK Parliamentary constituencies some organisations were in, to identify who needed to be contacted about an issue.  400 organisations, in fact. Could … Continue reading →

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