I’ve been considering doing this for a while. The controversy surrounding Apple’s decision to enable third-party ad blockers in iOS 9 made me think more about the underlying tracking that (to me) represents one of the most objectionable elements of online advertising. As a result, I have removed Google Analytics from this site.
Christopher Mackay
Converting phone numbers to links using Grep in BBEdit
When I want to turn phone numbers in web copy into tappable links for smartphones — without relying on mobile browsers to do so — this regular expression saves me a lot of time. Simple search-and-replace fails because if the formatting varies even a little from number to number it becomes a time-consuming, manual process.
PDFs make your website harder to use
Summary — Publishing PDFs on your website may save you time and effort, but your visitors pay a heavy price. With rare exceptions, it’s not worth the trade-off. When it comes to publishing on the web, PDF files are rarely the answer. The question is should I post a PDF? No is (almost always) the … Read more
finding perpetual beta
Harold Jarche — an international consultant and speaker, who helps people and businesses adapt to the network era — has been described as “a keen subversive of the last century’s management and education models”. Today Jarche launched the second in his perpetual beta series of eBooks: finding perpetual beta. When the writing is this clear … Read more
Mount Allison Faculty Association launches new site
Tantramar Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that as a follow-up to having designed the Mount Allison Faculty Association’s (now-retired) mafanegotiations.ca a year ago, that site’s design and content has been merged with the organization’s main site, mafa.ca. The newly-merged site has had a deep content reorganization and an HTML overhaul, bringing the fourteen-year-old site … Read more