Soundbytes and Presentation Links from FOWD London 2012

I like pubs more than clubs – Louise Morgan from Carsonified

Never before have I seen so much Helvetica in 48 hours… - @davidappleyard

Slides of my “teaching touch” talk (and more!): http://globalmoxie.com/blog/josh-clark-talks.shtml #fowd – @globalmoxie (Josh Clark)

“make mistakes, be better. failure is an opportunity to learn, improve.” – @markboulton

“We work with clients, not for clients.” @markboulton

“If you cannot sell responsive, just do it & keep quiet. We don’t sell accessibility, we do it as a standard” @laurakalbag

“Iteration is more important than innovation. It’s about doing something better, not necessarily something new” @brendandawes

My slides on Stylesheet Organization from #FOWD: http://bit.ly/MkGn0i – Chris Eppstein ‏@chriseppstein

@sniffles: To lovely #fowd people who wanted to see my slides again, they are now up: goo.gl/8bAzl

@hellofisher: Here’s a Google doc on design critique. Let’s do it right. #FOWD https://t.co/Ntm9Tg5s

FF Chartwell

Here’s an amazing use of Fonts to create beautiful graphs and charts. Great idea. I think we’ll try and give it a go within WordPress.

https://www.fontfont.com/how-to-use-ff-chartwell?aid=59

Twitter brings the Future of Web Design to everyone

Today I’ve really enjoyed the tweets and opinions from everyone at the “Future of Web Design” conference held in London today and tomorrow.  Click to link –  http://futureofwebdesign.com/london-2012

Thanks to the hundreds (thousands!) of tweets I’m really getting the vibe from the wonderful web people who have made it and are sharing on the net.

During each speech we’re getting highlight tweets (hopefully the key tapping isn’t putting off the speakers!) giving us the overall view of each speaker and some helpful advice.  It’s all pretty darn inspiring.

I’m sure that someone will be able to make an Website Advice Book simply out of the tweets flying around today.  

Here’s a selection of my favourites so far…

Remy Sharpe @rem
If IE6 support is your job, quit your job or stop whining. If it’s a pain point, charge more for it.

A nice bit of advice. …

BT Infinity Speed Tests

I’ve recently moved to BT Infinity where I should be getting up to 40Mbps download speeds.

LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

Here are some excellent instructions to get you noticed and marketing properly on LinkedIn

The Social Media Cheat Sheet

Netgear DGND33000 Wireless Repeating

I now have two Netgear DGND33000 ADSL Modem/Routers and bought the same models because I know that Netgear supports a Wireless Repeating Mode.

This means that in my office I have one DGND33000 hardwired to my broadband line, and also sending out a wireless signal.

I also am using another DGND33000 in the main house which repeats the wireless signal to the house – providing a signal to laptops and games consoles as well as any smartphone going.

WordPress Login Problem with no error

WordPress Login Problem with no error

Problem

WHen I log into WordPress I use the correct username and password, but the screen simply returns me to the login page without any error message.

Solutions
This is usually because my links in the wp_options table for siteurl are not correct. =C2=A0Ensure =
that it matches the exact url it should be. This happens mainly when I convert databases from one site to another.

e.g. //solarpolar.co.uk should be http://solarpolar.co.uk

Dave Walker Google search improved

Well since my last post about losing our status under Google search for “Dave Walker” I tweaked the website theme in WordPress and we’re again found on the first page in the UK.

Now that our WordPress theme is up and running properly, content should once more be king,  so we’ll now target my home town of Malton, North Yorkshire.

Googling “Malton” on its own brings up many of the local business websites but Solar Polar doesn’t score highly at all and neither it should.  I think by blogging about myself and the town goings on we can start to score in the top 5 pages within the month.

My aim therefore is to blog something everyday, and also fill up my portfolio page with some details to keep scoring high on both counts.

DNS problems

My ISP is branded AOL (but now they’re owned by Talk Talk).  Of late I’ve had a fwe problems accessing some websites and at the same time I’ve changed my home router.  All my fault I thought, so I changed my router back to the old one to get me up and running properly.

I was still having some problems, and then discovered that no email had been read for a day.  I check the servers through my work VPN and they were ok.  I checked them from my home pc.. not available.  I could however PING the ip address successfully.  That meant DNS problems, so I’m blaming my ISP.

To get around the problem I’m using OpenDNS servers and have set them up on my router so as not to have to change all device settings.

Link to instructions here : Computer …