More tweaks: del.icio.us and CSS
What do you call spring cleaning if it occurs in autumn? Anyway, that’s what’s currently happening to this site. Two more:
- I’m a fan of social bookmarking and, in particular, del.icio.us. I’ve got a couple of accounts and use them for a) bookmarking on the move and b) seeing how popular pages are. The site’s also a great resource for general browsing. I’ve now incorporated new bookmarks tagged ‘Manchester’ into the sidebar. These aren’t mine, but should provide a snapshot of what’s new and popular about Manchester online.
- I highly recommend Firefox for web browsing - particularly for the hundreds of extensions available. You can block all banner ads, check the weather without clicking your mouse, recover lost sessions, even improve Google. Sadly, a side-effect of my fanship is that I’ve neglected how this site looks in Internet Explorer. I checked yesterday and discovered an IE-only bug, which made everything slant to the left. It’s now fixed.
Enough with the techy stuff already! Let’s get back to the “great Manchester miscellany”…
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please check out my Manchester Blog which is meant to be ‘An inspired guide to urban living’ or something like that - how did you get that cool weather symbol? and does it change with the weather? cool!
By UrbanGuru on 09.14.06 2:35 pm
Nice blog - I like the theme.
The weather symbol does change according to the weather in Manchester. It’s powered by WeatherIcon, with a tweak or two:
http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/weathericon/
By Mancubist on 09.14.06 2:51 pm
thanks loads - i’ll try and figure it out -
I’ve been living in Manchester on and off for about 7 years now and in the past 6 months or so - i’m getting the feeling that things are really happening - that the city is coming alive!
By UrbanGuru on 09.14.06 4:09 pm
Agreed: there seems to be something happening every weekend at the moment. It’s good.
With WeatherIcon I just hid all text… I think the symbol itself says all people need to know.
By Mancubist on 09.14.06 4:22 pm
Thanks - Still trying to figure it out - as i’m pretty pants at CSS stuff - can’t seem to get rid of the weather text stuff - give me some plain HTML any day!
By UrbanGuru on 09.15.06 9:25 am
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