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Working Smarter: Standardise your code

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

In my previous post about keeping a code snippets library I eluded to the fact that within this file structure I had created a number of HTML skeletons which give me a basis for beginning a new project. It removes the medial task of creating a container <div> and the usual suspects of a header region <div id=&quo;header&quo; />, content area <div id=&quo;content&quo; /> and <div id=&quo;footer&quo; />. I tab indent my code for easy scanning too so shaving off the few minutes laying these out correctly along with other items that may get missed within your <head> such as common <meta>. I took my skeletons a bit further by adding in unordered list items for the menu area, aside and footer. These may not all be used but it is quicker to delete than it is to type.

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Tags: CSS, HTML, semantics, sexy stylesheets, standardise code, working smarter
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Working smarter: Using Xobni to make Outlook social

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Xobni, pronounced zob-knee is the spelling of inbox backwards. Groundbreaking! It is also the name of new software currently in Beta and rated by Microsoft and Bill Gates. Xobni plugs into the Microsoft Outlook sidebar to bring a much more social way for relating to our contacts. Using a powerful analytics package it is able to show you who your top contacts are, send to receive ratios and map out the time of day you usually receive emails from a particular contact. The part that excites me most is the way in which it tracks conversations.

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Tags: Bill Gates, Lifehacker, Microsoft, social email, working smarter, Xobni
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Working smarter: Building expandable, modular websites

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

From experience, clients who commission DigiKev to build a small website solution, perhaps even just a mini site with a handful of pages, at some point in the future may require additional pages or sections to be added. Larger websites with a multitude of information and complex structures will more than likely require expansion or remodelling of the configuration to accommodate a new campaign style or to work more efficiently for search engine optimisation after studying the analytics.

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