Retrieving and Embedding Web Site Thumbnails
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design
The Picoshot service allows you to embed a thumbnail image of another website in your page with a simple <img> tag. And, I was also able to use curl on the command line to create a file.
A little HTML is all you need to know. There are currently 2 ways to retrieve a thumbnail:
<img src=”http://image.picoshot.com/thumbnail.php?url=http://www.example.com”>
<img [...]
Tags: picoshot, thumbnails, Web Design, webdesign
Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business
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Digital Web Magazine – How to Build a Green Business
In an age of inconvenient truths, global warming, and “green is good” messages in the mass media, Sustainability has become a popular catchphrase and the new marketing must-have for many companies. But what does it truly mean? And how can it apply to [...]
The Top 50 eco blogs
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
The Times UK reports on its top 50 eco blogs. It is a must-read (and bookmark) for an aspiring green social marketers. It would be nice to know what criteria (PageRank, Unique visitors, Editorial quality) they used. Congrats to all that made the list, and boos to the climate change skeptics!
Tags: marketing, Sustainability
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PDF Downloads for Coaching Skills Tools | Manager’s Coaching Toolkit – a book & a blog to make business coaching really simple
Eownload PDF template sheets for all the Manager’s Coaching Toolkit tools. You might not have to read the book if you have a background in coaching or organizational development
Rating: ★ ★ [...]
Easy Ways to Create a Professional Photography Website
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under photography
There are so many options available to photographers to create a professional looking portfolio site. Here are just a few I’ve run across in the past couple of months.
SmugMug.com offers template based sites and includes a way to sell your photos, printing, and custom watermarks.
Satellite powered by a flickr professional account. You also need a [...]
Tags: marketing, photography, technology
Rake Tasks for dumping mysql
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design
I have definitely used sqlite database files but I also like sticking to mysql, because I know that’s what I’ll use on the the server. I’ve created some rake tasks to help me in this process. As usual, they go in lib/tasks.
here’s my db.rake file:
# with thanks to sake
# http://errtheblog.com/posts/60-sake-bomb
namespace :db do
# command [...]
Tags: mysql, rake, ruby on rails, rubyonrails, sake, Web Design
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Code Intensity: Auto-Complete Text Fields in Rails 2
In Rails 2, the PrototypeHelper and ScriptaculousHelper code was removed to plugins. This means that doing auto-complete for various fields was no longer part of the base Rails. I didn’t find any great, straight-forward docs on how to do this for Rails 2.x, so am [...]
Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines
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Australia Releases Green Marketing Guidelines
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released green guidelines for marketers, The Age reports. guidelines to combat businesses wrongly claiming their products or operations are “environmentally friendly”, or “green”.
Fines for those found guilty of misleading conduct can be as high as $1.1 million for companies and up to [...]
How to remove subversion (SVN) info from a project
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Web Design
Sometimes when I’m coding I need to remove all the subversion (SVN – a source code version control program, which if you’re a non-programmer, you could also use for any documents you want to version control) information from the project. Perhaps you’ve copied the code to another directory and want to start a new source [...]
Tags: ruby, subversion, svn, Web Design
Green Prophet
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
Green Prophet is a site Sustainable Websites is now hosting that takes a look at environmental issues in Israel – but it’s a great read for anyone because the articles transcend regional issues and offer insights into what positive steps people are taking to green this planet. Check out recent articles on Kenaf, greening your [...]
Tags: greenprophet, israel, Sustainability
