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I just launched Adamas Fishing Charters’ new website. Adamas Fishing Charters is based in Barwon Heads and provides recreational fishing charters in Victoria, in bass strait - they generally depart from Barwon Heads and Portland.

Go with Adamas Fishing Charters to catch Mako Sharks, Thresher Sharks, Blue and Bronze Whalers, Snapper, Tiger Flathead, Barracouta, Squid, Gummy Sharks, Seven Gill Sharks, Yellowtail Kingfish, St. George Whiting, Trevally, Salmon, Calamari, Pike, Flathead and Tuna.

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In technology, there’s always the goal of making complex and difficult things more simple - this goal has brought about ‘clean URLs’. Clean URLs are website addresses that are easy for people (and also search engines) to read and understand. For example: An interesting article about the Bermuda Triangle might be at www.articles.com/article.php?id=23452 - That address tells us (and search engines) nothing about the article. Using a clean URL, the same article might be at www.articles.com/articles/bermuda-triangle - much easier, right? Well, here is how you can implement this on your website… (more…)

The Problem

While working on an update for Once Upon a Bride’s handmade jewellery website, I had to overcome a certain bug or problem in Internet Explorer that caused images loaded into Loader Components to render incorrectly and scale incorrectly, usually with incorrect width and height. This was occurring after loading about 12 - 15 images.

So instead of loading them all at once, I made it load only eight images, and let the users view a page of eight at a time. The only problem I had was clearing the old thumbnails before loading the new ones. (more…)

While working myLookAgain (the second attempt), I’ve had to use a little bit more AJAX through JavaScript. One of the reasons was that I needed to allow users to add as many ‘pieces’ to each look and delete them if they want - preferably without reloading.

In JavaScript terms, I needed to be able to add (or create) and remove (or delete) elements, within another element, the form. After a little bit of research on the internet, I had what I needed to do just that. See a basic example of javascript dynamically adding and removing elements… Here’s how to do it:
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Although always available, I want to publicise one of the features offered by logon2 that can make your website a living, rich, thriving community - rather than just another website. I’m talking about adding a blog to your website or even turning your website into a blog. If implemented properly, a blog is a communication platform between you and your audience. It improves your relationship with customers, returns feedback from customers, brings you new customers and it gives you total control of your website… (more…)

Just finished rennovating the WizzComb website which offers the ingenious zig zag hair part comb - have a look at WizzComb’s new portfolio page or directly at the zigzag hair comb’s website. If you can suggest any improvement or criticisms, leave them in the comments or email me.

I personally developed the original WizzComb website in 2004, being only the second website I had ever developed it was pretty abysmal when it came to standards, accessibility and even good markup form. The website became out of date so after some tinkering, the WizzComb website is now fresh, valid, accessible, SE-Friendly and better looking.

After about two months of the logon2 blog, it’s time to check the statistics. After a bit of inspection and investigation, I found an interesting (but kind of obvious) pattern that brings a load of new traffic over and over again… (more…)

We’ve all seen dropdown / popup menu lists on websites before, and generally they’re extremely useful because they save space, but offer extra functionality. Sometimes, though they’re tricky to implement. I remember doing a image-only popout menu for the Lonsdale Views, who offer accommodation in Point Lonsdale and it was more difficult than expected - First, there was Internet Explorer’s lack of support for “:hover” and then there was Internet Explorer’s z-index issue. Now that I’ve got a blog, I thought I’d publish a how-to guide for valid, accessible semantic HTML and CSS dropdown menus… (more…)

While making the YouTube Music in MySpace tool, I coudln’t find a function that reads an input URL then makes an array with the GET variable names and values. I needed this to get the video id from the YouTube video URL - so I made it, and now I’m sharing it. (more…)

Within a week of the US locking foreigners out of its online gambling market, the three biggest search companies - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft - have all decided to settle with the US Goverment on cases regarding the promotion of online gambling, which is illegal in the US. The total amount forfeited was $31 million - much of which was in the form of advertising credit. (more…)