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Javascript noscript the nice method by adding and removing classes
One of the problems with JavaScript is you can’t say if the user has it on or off. To make your code truly accessible personally I think chucking a ‘JavaScript isn’t enabled update your life’ message using the html tag noscript simply doesn’t cut it. I don’t like the notion of having a lesser experience just because you’ve not got a scripting language turned on where you may have a good reason to have it off. Enter then the friendly way of showing alternative content if JavaScript isn’t enabled. For this we’re going to use JQuery as our libary to make use of the addClass and removeClass functions. You can of course adapt this method to suit other libaries or pure JavaScript the principles are just the same.
Green freelancing
One of the foundations I wanted to have to my freelance career on my move from working for a company was the ability to reduce the impact my business had on the environment. It’s in parts oddly turned into a bit of a battle and quest with more than one hiccup along the way. It’s also about digitising the last fragments of my life as slowly I look to having everything digitally accessible.
Wave to your clients
The word of the moment seems to be Google’s Wave. I got my invite a while ago and have been playing about with it investigating what it is and how I could use it in my life. I think I had the same initial thoughts as a lot of ‘information overload’. I couldn’t place where I’d use it and the main use by most seemed to be for a form of IM. The way it was being used actually reminded me of old guest books and shout boxes more than anything really revolutionary. Then I started thinking about how as a freelancer I could use this tool and it dawned on me how useful it could actually be.
Go pink and raise awareness for breast cancer
October is the month when you can do something to raise awareness of breast cancer by turning your site pink. Pink for October has been running now for several years and it’s that time of the year again. Since the start this site has gone pink and I’d encourage others to join in and colour the web pink.
Turning leafs and putting the kettle on
As many may have noticed this blog has been seriously neglected in the past few months. I took a break from digital life for a while, it was needed to sort some real life things out. I always had in mind the break would be temporary though and here I am coming back. Whilst it was a hard time for me this past few months I’m not going to go into what happened. I’ve learnt to cope with a lot of what went on and find myself in a happier place having found more balance.
For the love of Things
It feels like I have but I probably haven’t tried every piece of GTD (Getting Things Done), task management or ’sort your life out now’ software out there. A while back before it was in full release I started using Things. At the time it wasn’t linked to the iPhone and was a very basic form of just managing tasks. At the time it slotted nicely as for me so many other applications have quite frankly been over the top. I’m a simple girl I guess, I like to have an easy system to manage my tasks that fits in with my life easily. Things turned out to do just this.
