http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk Funky web design and development by Lee Doel Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:02:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone loves to see funky effects and interactive elements when browsing the web. Many of the features we see on web sites are made using JavaScript such as drag and drop features and the infamous Lightbox gallery. There are more and more JavaScript libraries to make coding even easier for developers. ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/09/using-javascript-in-your-web-site/ After reading Sarah's posts on the Wordpress gallery I thought I would have a go at using it on a site. The gallery that is built in is OK but not my favourite gallery for Wordpress. I am not sure if they just threw it in as there us hardly any ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/08/wordpress-gallery/ A while back I began researching into forum behaviour as I help look after two forums. I wanted to get an idea on how people use the forums and what things I might have to look out for. I ventured on to many forums and asked 4 main questions and a general ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/08/social-behaviour-on-forums/ A little bit of fun with some research What Open Source platform do you choose to use or do you consider when building a web site? For those who don't know memes are like batons passed from blogger to blogger to find out a little more behind the random blogs they read. ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/07/which-platform-tag-youre-it-meme/ Things have been very busy recently and I am getting much more involved with sites that are "green". This has led me to look for a green hosting company. Why Green? I help run a children's site dedicated to green things such as climate change and the environment, this has made me ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/07/green-hosting/ Something I have been pondering over for a while now is the choice of how to build a web site. Do you always go for a CMS solution and build from there or do you just build from scratch using any code you have used before as a library or ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/07/cms-or-bespoke-web-site-builds/ A while back i posted about being paid to search. Some of you may have signed up to find it wasnt all that great as they were updating it all. Now the update is just about finished and they have now signed up Yahoo for their search results, so not only ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/06/more-from-paid-to-search/ Just a quick heads up for those wanting a script for next to nothing. Head on over to 1month.co.uk and see what script they are selling this month. Each month they sell a script starting at $1 on the first day of the month then it goes up one ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/04/cheap-scripts-from-1month/ With the latest Wordpress about to be released (hopefully by the end of march) I was happy that they were finally going to move forward. Wordpress has always given us more in each release but this version I am not so sure. In fact many are saying it I more ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/03/wordpress-25-good-or-bad/ Just a quick post to let you know about a new search service i was recommended to by a friend. MySearchFunds is a site that pays you to use their search engine which is ASK.com. the search results are ok and it is a nice alternative to using google as some ... http://www.thefunkhouse.co.uk/2008/02/get-paid-to-search/