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In Podcast two I interview James Myers of CNET Networks regarding Microformats. We discuss, what it is, how to get involved and how it was used on ZDNet.co.uk.
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Transcript to follow shortly. 2 Awards were given out during this interview – you can view them here
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At long last I’ve pulled my finger out and typed up the transcript from my now not-so-recent interview with Reinette De Villiers. Enjoy.
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Firstly, sorry for the lack of posts recently – it’s amazing how much time is consumed in looking after a new baby. No doubt you’ve seen Baby Olivia’s photos in my flickr stream featured on the rhs of this blog.
Since been back at work after the Crimbo break I’ve had the chance to work on interactive maps for the first time. Having avoided javascript as much as possible during my time as a front-end designer I suddenly found myself wading in with Ajax.
The project was for the atlarge.com home page as previously mentioned on this blog. I had a look at several 3rd party APIs and settled on Yahoo! Maps as being the best option.
It was the easiest to implement and control, had the most features and I had working map with most of the effects I wanted in an afternoon. However, I had to stop using the Yahoo! API because of 3 major problems.
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This blog has been set up to link my 2 blogs. One features articles about Webdesign and Producing – From The Front-End. The other is about my gaming side – Life of a Hardcore gamer
While Life of a Hardcore Gamer should be entertaining, From the Front-End will hopefully contain useful information for fellow web design/producers.
David “Keypad” Long
