Lightbox is a very useful JavaScript implementation that allows you to overlay images on the current page in Web 2.0 style. Implementing it is easy: you simply include three JavaScript files and one CSS file in the <head></head> section of the pages you want to use it on. After that, add a rel=”lightbox” attribute to [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Lightbox
January 20, 2007Geotagging the blogosphere
January 14, 2007If you were to identify and pinpoint blog posts’ location data (i.e. mentioned locations in blog posts), a process known as geotagging or geocoding, these visualizations are the result. In the first and fourth picture, the color represents the popularity of a location (red is highest frequency). In the second and third picture, the size [...]
RSS Mime type
January 6, 2007What’s the most correct MIME type for RSS feeds? For many developers this matter is a bit of a headache, as there are many differences with regard to application and browser support for application/rss+xml. For that reason, there seems to be a general preference for text/xml, as it’s the safest bet. So after reading Dave [...]
Crazy Egg
January 5, 2007Crazy Egg is a wonderful free tool to visualize your visitors’ clicking behavior on your website, and in my opinion a must for every web designer.
Digitizing my CD collection
January 5, 2007With the recent acquisition of an external 250 GB hard disk, I’ve finally decided to take the plunge and digitize my entire audio CD collection. In this blog post I just wanted to share how I go about doing that.
The tool I use for converting audio to digital is GoldWave (together with LAME). They provide [...]
