August 2007 Archives

31/08/07 - Thanks To Tony Of WorkCircle

For those of you who haven't come across Workcircle, they are a jobs website which offer a JavaScript widget enabling you to show jobs for particular industries.

Anyway, I've received my first payment thanks to Tony, an extremely friendly chap.

here's some examples of the Workcircle widget for those who haven't yet come across it. More

28/08/07 - Integrating the Ebay API Into Price Tapestry

I've spent all morning working on this and am rather pleased with the end result.

Check out the Compare Sat Nav page for the Navman F20 at http://www.comparesatnav.co.uk/gps/navman-f20.html and you'll see a live example of what I'm about to talk about. More

08/08/07 - Trying Out Amazon's Text Links

You've probably noticed the red double underlined links that appear on this site and you'll have probably guessed that when you hover over them, they turn red. I have always wanted to test out whether they would work well in a product review so here's a bit about an affiliate marketing book currently for sale. More

06/08/07 - Out Of The Box Is Fine But...

When it comes to web applications, I tended to fall back on a portfolio of open source applications. For blogs, I would use Nucleus, for content management, Website Baker was my preferred weapon. The only problem with this is the Website Baker wasn't as flexible as I required it to be and Nucleus now appears to be a stagnant project.

Lately, I've been using a lot of hand coded solutions as these do exactly what I want. I don't need a spiffingly wonderful backwnd if it's just me using it. I don't need plugins and modules that I never use. More

06/08/07 - New Templates Website

I launched Price Tapestry Templates last week and haven't had a chance to blog about it yet. So here goes! More