2011 April 26

Are you a winner? A round up of recent comp results.

April 26, 2011 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

There’s been a few competitions recently, and I’ve been very laggardly in disclosing the winners. So without further ado, let’s clear up the mystery. Your literary #guiltysecret? Lorna, come on down! £10 Amazon voucher is yours. 3 copies of Alexander’s Athenian Adventure up for grabs. They go to So that’s Ashleigh, tom and Rosie. I’ll [...]

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Where’s the village?

April 26, 2011 By Jax Blunt 28 Comments

It takes a village to raise a child, so I’ve heard. I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do if you can’t find that village. I think (I’m guessing), if you’re using school, and it suits your family, child as well as adults, that might be a large part of your village ready built. I [...]

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How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, [...]The post How to get a new twitter widget to fi […]
Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate.
Twitter cards are the latest upgrade to twitter that allows you to add extra information to your tweet when sharing a link. They come in a number of different formats – the one that is most likely to be useful to a business or personal blog is the summary card, which adds a headline, excerpt [...]The post Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate. a […]
The absolute basics of SEO.
There’s an awful lot of nonsense spouted about search engine optimisation, as if it’s a difficult topic. It’s not. Here are the basics of SEO as I see them. Your mileage may vary. A post should be 300-500 words. Good content is written for people, but works for search engines too. A good post summarises [...]The post The absolute basics of SEO. appeared firs […]