Remove Speech Bubble from Google Maps

Posted on 5 August, 2010 by Tira

Adding a Google Map to your website is a simple way to show your Customers how to find you and benefits your websites’ SEO.
One of the things that’s always irritated me slightly was having the Big Speech Bubble appear on the map and usually half out of the frame.


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Get Positive – Get Business

Posted on 4 August, 2010 by Tira

Does your choice of language or phrases prevent Customers buying from you?

How Negative of a Freelancer are you? is a great article about how the negative terms we use, while writing, can subconsciously make people buy their products somewhere else.

James explains some of the how and why we do this naturally, then goes on to offer some solutions you can apply to your writing to make it more positive. Continue reading →

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Saying NO makes you happier!

Posted on 4 August, 2010 by Tira

I came across Whitney’s ‘personal’ blog post first in my Google Reader.

I am crying. And I am desperately trying not to smear the mascara I just put on.

An attention grabbing, albeit slightly concerning start was shortly followed by the realisation that they were happy tears.

Whitney has just had her first article published on A List Apart entitled No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas.

Whitney Hess is a UX (User Experience) designer & writer. I’ve only recently discovered her work, but have been an avid reader of her articles and posts ever since.
Although her articles are aimed more towards larger scale projects, her main message “to make stuff easy and pleasurable to use” applies to my website planning and development – in a smaller, but no less important way. Continue reading →

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HTML5 Browser support test

Posted on 2 August, 2010 by Tira

A handy website to show you, easily, how well your browser supports HTML5.
I opened HTML5 Test with Google Chrome and the new Google Chrome Canary. The Canary build is the development build which is updated nightly, you can now run this alongside the more stable ‘standard’ version of Chrome. Continue reading →

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