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Mark Boulton

January 29th, 2006

A couple of minor changes

I’ve made a couple of changes ’round these parts’. New ‘of interest’ links (which means you’ll need to re-subscribe), a photo gal­lery and a new Live Search.

Del.icio.us (ly) interesting

First off, I’ve now moved my ‘Of Interest’ links over to Del.icio.us rather than them being handled in EE. This is noth­ing against Yoshi’s superb Link­list Mod­ule. I was find­ing though, over time, that it was a bit of a head­ache to update all the archive sec­tions. So, everything in now in Del.icio.us. The pre­vi­ous ‘Of Interest’ feed doesn’t work (in fact, did it ever work?) but you can get all the latest by sub­scrib­ing to my Del.icio.us feed.

What took me so long to come round to del.icio.us? Not sure really. Cocoa­li­cious had a lot to do with it, as did hav­ing a machine in work that I could install it on (which happened this week). The EE Mag­pie plu­gin, which is used to pull in the RSS data, does have a bit of a clitch in it though which means that some­times you may only see 4 instead of 7 links on the page. I’m doing my best nag­ging to try and get it fixed.

Photo gal­lery

Why am I not using Flickr like every­one else? Well, EE ships with a bloody good gal­lery mod­ule and since I’ve already paid for that I may as well use it right?

There’s not much up there at the moment and it will mostly stay as per­sonal stuff for friends and fam­ily so don’t be expect­ing any mas­ter­pieces on the pho­to­graphy front — you won’t find them. Have a look if you fancy though.

Live search

This one’s been knock­ing around for about a year now, but I never got round to fin­ish­ing it off.

Pretty straight for­ward stuff. See the little search icon in the top left? Click it, then search. That’s it.

A few points though before I get slammed for a shoddy job. 1. It’s not fin­ished yet. And 2. I’m not sure I even like it yet, so it may go.

Please dump your cache and refresh. I’ve made a bunch of changes that will look pig ugly if you don’t.

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10 Responses to “A couple of minor changes”

  1. Alex Beard said on: January 29th, 2006 at 6:43 pm

    See the little search icon in the top right?

    Per­haps the top left? :P Love the changes Mark.

  2. Mark Boulton said on: January 29th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

    Ah, that’ll be right — thanks Alex.

  3. Steve Hubbard said on: January 29th, 2006 at 10:02 pm

    The live­search drop down is nicely done. Very impressive…

  4. Damien Davison said on: January 30th, 2006 at 1:08 pm

    I only just got around to using Del.icio.us too, des­pite know­ing I both needed it and would find it use­ful, funny that.. Now I just have to remem­ber to use it, which is harder than it sounds.

    So much for being early adopters?

  5. Dario Taraborelli said on: January 31st, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    Hi Mark, it seems you have an encod­ing prob­lem with your Live­Search (at least on Safari/Mac OS X). If I try search­ing for “Emigr” I get “Emigr? calls it a day” as a results. 

    Also, both in Safari and FF, if I type “Emigr?” I get an error mes­sage: Dis­al­lowed Key Char­ac­ters.

    BTW I’m using Safari’s default encod­ing and I see that your web­site doesn’t spe­cify an HTTP char­set parameter.

  6. Terry Tolleson said on: January 31st, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    I am start­ing to exper­i­ence a hor­rible trend, one that now seems to be affect­ing just about any web­site, lately. 

    Exam­ine the headers/titles

    Any ideas? 

    –t 

    PS: Love the changes, espe­cially the Search feature.

  7. wslaat said on: January 31st, 2006 at 8:21 pm

    Very impress­ive, thank you!

  8. yoshi said on: February 2nd, 2006 at 10:38 am

    Ooh, thanks for point­ing out cocoa­li­cious. It does make deli­cious a lot easier to man­age, since I don’t have to go to their site. 

    I dropped the deli­cious integ­ra­tion in link­list mainly just because no one seemed inter­ested in it enough to test it out. Might have been some­thing cool though to be able to man­age both link­list and deli­cious in one interface!

  9. Hadley Stern said on: February 25th, 2006 at 5:22 pm

    Mark,

    I’m curi­ous about how you built your port­fo­lio pages. It appears that you did not use the gal­lery mod­ule for those pages. If not, why? 

    thanks!

  10. yju2GhGnI6 said on: February 27th, 2006 at 6:46 pm

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