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Forcing embedded Vimeo videos to show non-HD version

I had a bit of a strange issue crop up with a Vimeo video that had been embedded on a website today. We’d set the video to default to the HD version via the video settings on Vimeo (which I [...]

Improving interaction with HTML Forms : dropdown list

I was recently trying to improve the way a basic form worked, in particular trying to improve the user experience. From my experience forms and pages that contain forms especially Contact pages are often given the least design and development [...]

Blackberry @font-face CSS declaration

Had to try and get some custom fonts working on a Blackberry specific website today and couldn’t find much official guidance or help via Google searches so thought this might help someone. The Blackberry browser on BB OS5, 6 and [...]

Getting an RSS feed from Facebook

From my experience Facebook tends to provoke strong reactions, both positive or negative. As a developer who works with Facebook often in one way or another I’ve had lots of frustrating moments mainly due to poor/incorrect documentation. I spent a [...]

Social Media: Overview of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

Over the past few years I’ve watched the way the Internet has gradually changed. The leap from old school websites where all the content and features were served up 100% themselves is so far gone that I can barely remember [...]