Tutorial: Display your Google Feedburner count on your Website
Posted in Tutorials, Web Design

Following on from my tutorial that shows you how to display your latest Tweet on your website, I will now show you how to show of your Feedburner subscribers count in plain text on your website. Feedburner does already give you the option to display your count on your site using their 'chicklets' but these are widget like icons that aren't particularly customizable and for my site, they did not look right!

Tutorial: Display your Latest Tweet on your Website
Posted in Tutorials, Web Design

You will have noticed that I display my latest Tweet in the header of my website (look up). Until recently I have been using the Twitter for WordPress plug-in, but I was experiencing problems and 9/10 times my page loaded I would get the error message instead on my Tweet! This became increasingly frustrating, as my site would get featured on someone else's blog and the screenshot would contain this error message.

Twitter beta ‘Verified Accounts’ feature
Posted in Social Networking

Today I read of a new feature Twitter has announced, which is 'Verified Accounts'. This new feature will no doubt be Twitters attempt at minimizing impersonation and identity confusion, which is becoming more of a problem as more and more celebrities sign up to get an account.

Reverse Your Email with CSS and Prevent Spam
Posted in All Posts, Design, Tutorials, Web Design

SPAM... Literally the most annoying word! When I used to work in IT Support, I would constantly get asked how to stop spam, and my reply would always be that you can't! There is only so much software you can install / filters you can set going before you realise, the spam eventually reaches you anyway, fact! It's just part or web life.