Author: Oliver Jobson
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Random music that made me smile..
This is what happens when you mash the last 30 years of pop songs that all use the same 4 chords together! Properly random song by ‘The Axis of Awesome’
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Spotify on the App Store? In a word…
Update@ 04/04/2020:So, 11 years later and paid subscription models that remove the ads, the advent of high speed mobile connectivity, and a generation of people who have grown up streaming free music on YouTube and Spotify have changed the music landscape forever. It took me a while to adopt it, but I am now a…
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Email Marketing – Open Rates: subject line rules and content is key
I’ve been a/b testing a lot lately – I usually do this with most of my campaigns, using a sample group to test and then sending the best subject line to the rest of the list. Our email providers latest update claims to do this automatically (if you want) – but I’m not sure I…
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Alphabetical ordering of wordpress post
I found this post (http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/22/6-ways-to-customize-wordpress-post-order/) about how to get your wordpress posts sorted alphabetically and thought I would drop it here until I have time to get a fix on my recipe’s website [Edit: now amalgamated in to oliverjobson.co.uk] which I created to store some ideas for food and share them amongst friends and family…
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CSS Z-Index – Creating an adjustable background image for a page
I have been messing around with z-index recently for styling documents. I have been meaning to use it as a much more efficient way of creating cool backgrounds but it’s always been a bit of a mystery! It still seems a bit wierd – I don’t think it is supported very well in new browsers…
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WordPress code for highlighted category links
If you want to display a higlighted category to your visitors so that they know where they are in the site, use the following code, which checks to see if the page is of a certain name, category or if in the case that a single post is being displayed, it checks if one of…
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Round the Island ’09
Well it was another good race round the island this year – we didn’t do quite as well, but it was just as eventful! We started at 0750 on Saturday morning heading west from Cowes with very little wind and an easterly tide, but staying south and close in to the shore we managed to…
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WordPress
As part of learning how to use wordpress for work (we are switching all our sites to it) I have decided to port all my websites to the wordpress CMS in order to learn a bit more about it – so at the moment everything looks like a revised version of the old site, but as…
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Round The Island 2009
I am more than a little bit excited about this weekend – there are nearly 1800 boats signed up to take part and the weather isn’t looking too shabby either! Last year we came 5th out of a class of 60 boats which was a great result for my first time and I had only…