Paul Canning’s 10 point plan
Paul Canning – challenged by Tom Watson to do so – has come up with ten things that need to be looked at as part of the government’s web strategy. His number one issue is ‘findability’: Search is the prime…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
UK Youth Online
Tim Davies has blogged again about UK Youth Online, the barcamp he is arranging for somewhere in London on 17 May. It reminded me that I have totally failed to post about it yet. What’s it all about? Well, according…
WordPress 2.5
Went live for download over the weekend. Will be having a look at it over the next day or so. Looks a great release, with some much needed improvements, including: Improved admin dashboard, which can now include widgets Multi-file uploads…
OurPress: websites for the rest of us
OurPress is a project I have been working on for aaaages, which stalled quite badly for a while. Essentially, the idea emerged in a discussion with Nick Booth in the comments of a blog post of his. We were talking…
How to paste stuff into WordPress
Most people have WordPress’ rich text editor turned on, because generally speaking, it makes life a lot easier. It does have its problems though – one is when embedding media from places like YouTube and SlideShare and the other is…
WordPress.com widget guide
I’ve mentioned elsewhere that while WordPress.com is probably the best place to start for beginner bloggers, it also isn’t the most customisable of environments. In other words, if you want total control of what your blog looks like, you need…
DavePress WP Plugin-orama
WordPress is the best, we all know this. As well as the amazing free themes that are available, there are also tonnes of plugins which make your blog do interesting and cool stuff that it can’t do out of the…
Polling day
Every day, WordPress and the community around it manages to surprise and delight me more. I have mentioned how it can be used to consult before, specifically by using the amazing CommentPress theme. But you can also create small polls…
Redesigning DavePress
I have been wanting to give this blog a redesign almost ever since I started it. For some reason I just haven’t taken to the Mandigo theme I was using – a bit dark, maybe? I do think that darker…
Two point oh? Or zero?
The BBC are coming up with guidance on how staff should pronounce the phrase “Web 2.0”. Is it, for example: Web two point oh Web two point zero Web two dot oh Web two etc etc etc… I have always…