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nathan pitman.

Adding geographical tags to your website Apr 23. 05

Having noticed geographical data in the meta tags of many blogs recently I decided to investigate a little further and work out how to indicate the geographical location associated with my website. It took a bit of digging about, so I thought I’d share the results with you all.

Step 1 – Your Longitude and Latitude

First off you need to discover your longitude and latitude. If like me you don’t have a GPS device then you can use a number of online resources. I plumped for Streetmap. Simply enter your postcode and then on the map screen scroll down to find the line of text that reads “Click here to convert/measure coordinates”. Click on the link and make a note of the latitude and longitude figures that are returned.

Step 2 – Generate ‘Geo’ or ‘ICBM’ tags

Now we can generate the most commonly used geographical tags to place in the head of our web pages. I used the Geo Tag Generator at ‘Geotags.com’ to generate by ‘geo’ tags and the instructions for adding a site to the GeoURL database at ‘GeoURL.org’ to generate my ICBM tags.

Your tags should look something like this:

Step 3 – Use those tags!

Now simply place your tags in you document head and start adding yourself to geographical databases such as:

• Feedmap.net
• GeoURL

Hoorah!

MXNA (2) Public Beta Apr 11. 05

Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers are inviting all willing participants to put the new Macromedia XML News Aggregator through its paces.

The new interface designed by Josh Dura compliments some of the great new features that have been added for this release.

Joined-up Website Design Mar 26. 05

I just finished working on ‘another’ site for the wife of a cohort of mine. Mrs Tiffany Kemp runs a commercial management business called Devant. Much like her husbands website, the devant site needed a re-fresh, so that’s what we did, and this is the end result.

Let me know what you think.

Wedding Photography Mar 17. 05

I just finished working on a site for a cohort of mine. Mr Simon Kemp is perhaps the best wedding & portrait photographer ever but his old website just didn’t cut the mustard. We did a bit of a deal and this is the result.

Let me know what you think.

CSS3 in Firefox Dec 03. 04

Blake Scarbrough has blogged about using some upcoming features of the CSS3 specification in Mozilla Firefox. There’s some pretty neat tricks to be had and they all degrade perfectly in browsers without support.