Mr Happys online journal

I’ve heard tell of this for a while but I’ve never seen it before. If you do a search in Google for “Bar Chocolate” the first result is for http://www.barchoc.co.uk/ and the entire content is hidden inside a flash movie file. The result from Google shows content indexed from within the menu section of the website!

Nice result by Google. Especially as the website itself doesn’t do the bar justice. I ate in the related place Elk in the Woods the other day (having the rabbit for dinner) and it was a pretty damn good dinner (but that could be the bottle of Fleurie used to wash it down talking).

How do. quick post on some nice bits and pieces I’ve seen today.
Over at Equator the Flash monkeys have been beavering away (can monkeys beaver? – answers on a post card please to the usual address) on some cool little sites for HTC – you’ll have seen their advert on the tv for the HTC Magic I’m sure.

Anyway here’s a list of sites they’ve been doing:

• www.htc-android.de
• www.htc-android.es
• www.htc-android.nl
• www.htc-hero.co.uk
• www.htc-hero.de
• www.htchero.dk
• www.htc-hero.dk
• www.htchero.es
• www.htc-hero.fr
• www.htchero.no
• www.htc-hero.no
• www.htchero.se
• www.htc-hero.se
• www.htc-magic.dk
• www.htc-magic.no
• www.htc-magic.se
• www.styledforperformance.co.uk
• www.touchdiamond.dk
• www.touchdiamond.no
• www.touchdiamond.se
• www.touchdiamond2.cz
• www.touchdiamond2.es
• www.touchdiamond2.fr
• www.touchdiamond2.nl
• www.touchdiamond2.pl
• www.touchhd.dk
• www.touchhd.no
• www.touchhd.se
• www.touchinhd.de

(my hand is now sore with cutting and pasting – Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v – must be getting old)

Alongside this the guys at Flock (my second favourite browser after Chrome) who I follow on Twitter were mentioned over at CNN alongside some other browsers – including the Kid Rocket Web Browsers (designed for weans – which I’m going to try out on my own little bundle of energy later this week).

Also thought I should say I was messing about with a Personality Test – am little bit spooked by my results.

I’m sure my link to content ratio is a touch on the high side but hey I cant please the Google gods every day.

L8rs

Well for some reason my imbox is being spammed with stuff about trends – either the world is going trend mad or I’ve signed up to some cliquey rubbish. Probably the latter :p
Anyway most of its been rubbish – but there was a little gem on logo trends. I dont know if these trends mean anything but I like the idea of having ‘amoeba’ style logos. Have a look and let me know what you think.

I spent a chunk of my lunch yesterday trying to organise e-registration (or whatever its called) over at the Skandia website (they’re not getting a link but you can find them @ skandia.co.uk). And time and again I got an error thrown up. So I contacted them by their online form to find out how it was best to get this issue sorted – as I want to see how my pension’s doing.
Today I get my response from Skandia which reads thus:

Thank you for contacting Skandia’s E-Commerce Helpdesk with regards to the error message you received at the end of the registration process.
Could you please ensure that you are using Internet Explorer as your web browser because if you are using a different web browser then you will be unable to register online.
We currently only support Internet Explorer 6 and above as a web browser.
Please also ensure that you are using a PC and not an Apple Mac as PC is the only format that we currently support.
I sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause you.

It’s 2008 and they cant make a website that’s accessible to Firefox or anyone with an Apple Mac. What is the world coming to when a company offers a service and you can’t access it because they failed to pay any attention to making sure that their website is useable by as much of their target market as possible.

I guess its kinda like the force – the Jedi have the force and the Sith have the Dark Side of the force. Some people call the cool div pop-ups you get on websites containing images, text or other media as light boxes or shadow boxes (I’ve now renamed these as ‘Jedi Boxes’ and ‘Sith Boxes’).
Anyway I like these and Nick just sent me a link to a quick how-to-guide which is great as I’d been trying to rip them from sites for a while but as my JavaScript skills are more padawan than Jedi Master I needed as much help as possible.

Have Fun!