Category Archives: Web Development

Adding a ‘tab’ to your Facebook Page

Facebook recently announced that FB users will no longer be able to add Static FBML applications (like ‘tabs’) to their (business) pages and that users should instead be using iFrame applications. So how do you create an iFrame application?

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Creating an iPhone icon for your web site

The latest versions of the iPhone allow you to add a website shortcut to your iPhone’s ‘Home Screen’. You can easily specify the icon that gets used on the home screen, here’s how.

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Retrieving Wikipedia content using the Infochimps API

A group of students at Tipperary Institute are currently working on a web project which requires them to display information about all the counties in Ireland. They were hoping to extract the information from Wikipedia so to help them I … Continue reading

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Validating a HTML form with JavaScript

In anticipation of some questions I might receive tomorrow during a JavaScript practical with students studying Creative Multimedia at Tipperary Institute, here is a brief post outlining some of the basics of form validation with JavaScript.

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How my Facebook Like Box broke my Facebook Comments

I know, I know, it seems to be all about Facebook these days. However, with that said, I just discovered that the Facebook Like Box I added to my site broke(ish) the Facebook commenting I had enabled on posts.

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The Facebook like box and Internet Explorer

One of the problems with not using Internet Explorer as your default browser, unlike the majority of internet users (approx. 56%) who do, is that you fail to see IE issues with your web site. Continue reading

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Adding Facebook comments to your WordPress site

Facebook has updated its Comments Plugin for websites. Here’s how to integrate it into your WordPress blog.

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CSS3 PIE: solving border radius for IE

http://css3pie.com/ This is a really neat solution to the “rounded corners” problem in IE. The user forums have good instructions on how to integrate it into a WordPress theme (which I have yet to attempt). See this Amp at http://bit.ly/hF6BMR

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