May 2008
FeedGrab and CSVGrab now multiple site compatible
FeedGrab and CSVGrab have now been made compatible with EllisLab’s Multiple Site Manager expansion for ExpressionEngine.
Rejigging brandnewbox
I’m making a few changes to the site - a bit of a redesign and a change of emphasis in the way of content.
brandnewbox is becoming a more business orientated site, with more emphasis in what has become my main source of work - ExpressionEngine. This site in the coming months will include more ExpressionEngine and web development articles and tutorials, and I will start adding more work to the Products section the site.
Please bear with me while I update the site, and let me know if you have any comments.
June 2007
Safari 3 beta launched for OS X and Window
As you have no doubt heard by now, the Safari 3 Public Beta is now available for OS X and (surprise!) for Windows XP and Vista.
From: Surfin’ Safari
February 2007
Spot the difference
The Times, along with The Telegraph and The Guardian are three of the top four visited UK newspaper websites (along with The Sun which the others would argue cater for a different browsing market).
In the last 12 months all three have begun major redesigns.
January 2007
Setting up an ExpressionEngine Opensearch plugin
Providing Opensearch capability on your website allows your site’s search facility to accessed directly from FireFox’s or IE7’s search box.
This article describes how to add an Opensearch function to your Expression Engine site using EE’s built-in search templates.
A simple ExpressionEngine search page
Expression Engine provides a handy search module that provides an easy mechanism for adding a search facility to your site.
This first article implements a simple search box and results page.
Microsoft forces backward step in email design
Outlook 2007 is to use MS Word’s rendering engine rather than its new Internet Explorer 7 engine, breaking most modern CSS designed emails.
Transcending CSS
Much as Jeffery Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards (original 2003 ‘orange’ edition) marked the web design industry’s transition into standards based development, Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS draws a line under the past and ushers in a new epoch.
December 2006
CSVGrab ExpressionEngine plugin
CSVGrab is a variation of one of my other plugins FeedGrab, and allows you to import data from a CSV file into a weblog.
ExpressionEngine FeedGrab plugin tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through setting up Expression Engine with the FeedGrab plugin to capture data from a magnolia data feed.
November 2006
Redesign in process
Apologies for any weird-ities over the next few days…
Yahoo! and Microsoft to support Google Sitemap protocol
Good news for webmasters trying to help the search engines spider their site.