Content tagged: Social media

JavaScript-less social share links

Tue, 01/05/2012 - 12:47

Social sharing widgets are everywhere these days and on a growing number of sites they even follow you down the page just so you're blatantly aware of where they are at all times.

As well as just being visual pollution on a webpage, these widgets are resource heavy too, chocked full of extra JavaScript which needs to be loaded for each individual widget - all of which slows your site down!

Introducing: Block - a simple tumblr theme

Tue, 24/04/2012 - 19:45

Today I submitted my first Tumblr theme: 'Block' for review. (I named it 'block' because the main navigation is quite block-like as is the general structure of the overall theme.)

Who's tweeting the most?

Tue, 20/03/2012 - 09:58

In an effort to learn a bit more about the Twitter API I decided to set myself a little weekend project to try and create something with the data available.

I'm used to working with PHP and found this pretty solid PHP library which gave me a good base with which to get started on. If you use another programming language, the Twitter developers site has a comprehensive list of other libraries available.

Tweet archive: Google calendar

Thu, 15/03/2012 - 19:49

A few weeks ago I blogged about archiving tweets by sending them to another web service using ifttt. In my case that web service was Google Calendar since I never really use it.

I just thought I would share a weekly snapshot of my tweets in calendar format:

Tweets in calendar format

The new twitter design

Thu, 08/12/2011 - 22:13

Twitter has today launched a major new design of their apps across the board. Interestingly the announcement on http://fly.twitter.com came with a call to download the official mobile apps in order to get access to the new design on your computer, was this to reinforce a mobile first approach? Or perhaps it was just a ploy to get people back into using the official twitter app? Either way, I updated the iOS app & hey presto! The new web design appeared almost instantly.

Website overhaul: new design and development

Sun, 26/06/2011 - 15:48

Last week I released the latest version of designedbythomas.co.uk. If you ever visited the old site then you will see there has been quite a drastic change to the overall theme and structure.

Social media campaign tools.

Sun, 20/03/2011 - 12:54

The only tools you'll need for a social media campaign:

Social media campaign tools

You don't have to look too far to see that the major social networking sites are littered with these so called "campaigns".

If you are planning a social media campaign then please try to steer clear of these tools otherwise, you're not really planning a campaign: you're planning a competition.

Wandering through the Forrst!

Tue, 11/01/2011 - 23:38

Recently, I was lucky enough to receive a Forrst invite from Jim Ramsden of designfridge.co.uk and over the past couple of months I have been actively contributing to the site whenever I get chance.