@stuartgibson
This week I have decided to pick on @stuartgibson
He is a free lance web developer who regularly posts interesting thoughts and links, usually about web related topics.
All good stuff!
@hotdogsladies
This week I would like to suggest everyone follow Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies;
The guy is just hilarious, he is a writer and a thinker and has about 3 million different blogs, but almost all of them are worth a look.
It might be a bit late to point out, but not all of my suggestions are going to be developers or designers!
If you have any suggestions, or indeed would like to be the next follow Friday person yourself, let me know!
HTML5 – Anyone Played With It Yet?
Has anyone played with HTML5 yet?
I recently downloaded a cheat sheet for it and have been dying for a small project to use it on. The problem is most of the commercial projects I work on are such that HTML5 just wouldn't be a viable choice, and all of the personal things I take on I know I don't have that much time for so usually throw things together using a CMS or whatever.
I would be really interested to hear peoples feedback on this, so let me know!
Adsense Tips and Tricks
Damn that Smashing Magazine! One of the topics I had written down to talk about on this blog ages ago was some Adsense tips and tricks.
There have been some excellent posts in the past about how to best use Adsense, however as they were 'in the past' a few of them seemed a little dated. And now that Adsense has fallen out of favour with a lot of web people there doesn't seem to be the same type of stuff being written about it as there used to be.
So my plan was to chat a little about my experiences with Adsense, and provide whatever hints I have picked up a long my path of web development in a nice and simple blog post.
That plan went out the window when I read this article by SM, as they say, it is the 'ultimate roundup' and it really covers everything I was going to cover! There is no point in me reinventing the wheel so I say give that article a good read, but come back here to discuss it! (just kidding!).
The only thing I would add is to mention the Wordpress plugin that I use to host ads on this site - it is all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn and it works a charm!
@boagworld
For those of you who don't use twitter, you may be unaware of follow Friday, or #ff as the cool kids like to call it.
I really like the premise of the follow Friday thing, you personally recommend people that people should follow however due to the post length limitations (which are a complete god send most of the time!) you can never really say much more than 'These guys rock' along with a load of @names. I figured I would get some easy content expand on this idea on the blog. So every Friday I am going to recommend one person that I personally think you should follow on twitter, I will then give a list of reasons why I think you should follow them.
This weeks suggestion is @boagworld;
Paul Boag is the creative force behind what I believe to be one of the best web design / development podcasts being produced at the moment, he posts regularly about a range of topics and makes regular audioboos available.
If you have any suggestions for a follow Friday person, please be sure to get in touch