Freelance Frank

Christmas quiet

Christmas is, in my experience, a quiet time for the freelancer. Projects, unlike presents, are wrapped up early. Nothing new or urgent need be embarked on until the new year. It is tempting, then, to while away the time decorating one’s own site in the grand old Google style. I suspect, however, that idea that [...]

Infinite Looping With Google Real Time Search

Google has added real time searching to its results page. The implications can be spelled out in one soundbite:
Google is the new Twitter

That means a large hike in marketeering on the already over-loaded social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook. A tweet is no longer just a tweet – it’s a number one ranked [...]

The optimal way to set images in a post

The Baby Diaries are an annual feature at Vivid Magazine, a glossy pub for ex-pats in the country that I designed the web site for. The conceit, babies talking as if they were adults, is not my favorite but I was able to contribute something to the site by ensuring the baby images were lined [...]

Adventures with jQuery tooltips

Acronyms are often neglected by developers. XHTML has a handy 〈acronym〉 tag that defines an acronym, giving useful information to browsers, spellcheckers, screen readers, translation systems and (last but not least) search-engines.
My home page features a number of acronyms. They’re not uncommon in the coding world, after all. I wrapped some in acronym tags [...]

The Mad Men Web Strategy

The economic downturn may well require a cull in traditional web agencies. Clients are getting scarce while trust in the individual freelancer is rising. This is evolution in action. The traditional agency approach was always relatively unfit for the realities of the developing web. Its problems are only becoming more apparent as economic realities finally [...]