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New Dreamweaver Tutorial Series

by Stuart Robertson on January 1st, 2009 | Dreamweaver Tutorials

Happy New Year! For 2009 we’re going to start a series of Dreamweaver tutorials for new web designers and anyone interesting in learning how to create a web site using Adobe Dreamweaver. This online training course will be a good foundation for continuing education in web design techniques. The material is drawn in part from the University web design course I teach each fall.

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The first tutorial will be posted sometime next week. Needless to say, it would be a good idea to have a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver if you want to follow along with the tutorials.

Shadow: Follow Updates Quietly on Twitter

by Stuart Robertson on November 12th, 2008 | Social Media

This script will allow you to quietly follow a user’s updates on Twitter without listing them on your profile or adding you to their list of followers.

The Shadow script for Twitter is an experiment in seeing how being able to quietly follow other users updates will effect people’s perception of the value of following to follower ratios.

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Twitter Search Bar

by Stuart Robertson on November 7th, 2008 | Social Media

This script will add a search form and list of hot topics as a banner on Twitter.com.

I’ve previously written some scripts that make small modifications to the design of Twitter, help you see threaded Twitter conversations, and even stop unwanted ads on Twitter from being displayed.  This script was a bit more ambitious, but also a lot more useful!  I’ve wanted to be able to do searches from the Twitter homepage for a long time now, and seeing the hot topics – and not having them limited to just politics – is an added bonus for anyone interested in marketing and trend-watching.

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Scarecrow: Ad Blocking Script for Twitter

by Stuart Robertson on November 3rd, 2008 | Social Media

Magpie is a recently introduced service that inserts advertising into a users list of posts on Twitter. Scarecrow is a greasemonkey script that will stop these ads being displayed on your view of Twitter allowing you to “opt out” of the service. Other users have suggested simply unfollowing users who use the Magpie service, but I think this script gives people another option they might prefer.

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TwitterScope: Follow the Rest of the Twitter Conversation

by Stuart Robertson on October 31st, 2008 | Social Media

TwitterScope will display Twitter posts from a specified user and all @replies to that user. Having all the posts on a single page makes it much easier to follow the rest of the conversation if it involves people you’re not yet following.

Twitter makes it easy to follow updates posted friends, colleagues and people you find interesting, but it can sometimes be difficult to make sense of these posts when the person is replying to someone you aren’t yet following. It can be even more confusing if they’re replying a number of different people at once.

I often found myself wanting to read all of the posts that are part of a Twitter discussion, just like on a message board, and ideally without having to do a lot of extra clicking to do it. Since I couldn’t find any 3rd party apps that did this, I decided to write one myself.

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