Archive for November, 2009
HouleMO
Posted by paul in Uncategorized on November 19th, 2009
And here it is, the houlieMO. need I say any more… Download your own A3 houlieMo from http://www.paulhoulihan.net/houliemo/houliemo.jpg and have MO fun. Or simply help me raise some money for Prostate Cancer Awarness at http://ie.movember.com/mospace/372576
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Movember – roll on December
Wow, nothing for months then 2 entries in a couple of weeks.. I’m getting good at this! Ok this one has nothing to do with webdesign. Its about Movember. This is my first year being involved with Movember. And I have to say its been fun to start off with. But my motivation is waning. I probably have myself to blame but going with a full mutton chops moustache, seemed like a great idea at the time. The problem is the itching…. its so uncomforable and even though I know it looks rediculous, and that was part of the fun in the beginning, but now I’m starting to feel rediculous. And my wife hates it. People are starting to point and laugh too… this happened on the bus. It goes to show that simply growing a strange moustache, does have social implications and therefore is a worthy challenge for a worthy cause. 12 days to go. http://ie.movember.com/mospace/your-donation-page/
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Facebook needs to be socially supportive
I’ve started building a Facebook fan page for one of our clients. Basically we took a similar fan page online, and built content to suit this pages layout. When I started to put it together I noticed that some of the feature which looked like they should have been out of the box features, were not. For example adding a simple box with a header on the left side of the profile. I looked into it and there is an app called Static FBML. When I tried to add it to my page, it only gave me an option to add to favourites, this was no use, after a while of trudging through the discussion forums it occurred to me that maybe I should be logged in as a developer. Once I did this, the option of Add to page came up and all was well. I posted my findings on the discussion and then it dawned on me that the way the discussions are laid out is wrong, there are no mediators on these discussions. There is no one to close a resolved issue query. The lack of formatting options in the facebook discussions doesnt allow visual cues so that people can find the answer quickly rather than trudging through. In fact maybe there should be a way so that rather than, a page with a multitude of people saying "I have this problem too", an app can be built that simply adds a user as a fan of an issue, so that they can be notified of a resolution. rather than having to go back to the discussion page to find it.
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