Shameful spelling gaffs – My top 15.

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Lucy Temple

Psycic fair cancelled due to unforseen circumstancesAs a freelance copywriter, I pride myself on being able to spot a typo at 20 yards.

This can be both a real asset and a curse. Training your mind to notice errors in spelling, grammar and so on, is a bit like opening Pandora’s Box, or taking the red pill in the film The Matrix.

Typos jump out at you from everywhere – from shop signs, menus, TV ads – until you begin to wish you could go back and take the blue pill; erase what you know just to have a quiet life.

On the plus side, I thought it might make for an amusing blog post – here are 15 of the most unbelievable I’ve come across. Continue reading →

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1st Nibbler competition winner announced

Posted on December 7, 2011 by David Ball

Present

We’re running a competition this month to reward the users who make it to the top of the user leaderboards. Today’s the day we announce the winner of the 1st award.

The winner is… Continue reading →

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This December, Nibbler’s giving away $300

Posted on December 1, 2011 by David Ball

Amazon vouchers

As well as being a useful tool for testing your website, we also wanted Nibbler to be a fun site for web developers and designers. There’s already been some tussling for the #1 top user spot on the leaderboards which has changed several times, in this week alone.

The competition and the prize

As if getting to the #1 spot wasn’t enough of a reward in itself, we’ve decided that with Christmas coming up we’d like to give some special presents to those that reach the prestigious top spot. Continue reading →

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New Nibbler popularity badges added

Posted on November 29, 2011 by David Ball

New badges

The effectiveness and popularity of a website isn’t just limited to the technology used to build it, there’s lots more us web developers have to do these days than just build a website. With all the SEO, linkbuilding and social media we have to do, we’re always on our toes! So we’ve created a few new badges in Nibbler that reward web developers for all their hard work. Continue reading →

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Why I uploaded a fictional criminal to a client’s website

Posted on November 24, 2011 by David Ball

Warning overused stock photographyI’m a front end website developer. My job is to turn a web designer’s creative layouts and mockups into working HTML & CSS webpages to the best of my ability.

This is the story of how I ended up uploading a fictional criminal to the homepage of a client website without even knowing!

The website I’m talking about has been changed since, so there’s no point showing you a link. Not that it was changed because of my actions – don’t worry, it’s not like I put a photo of Charles Manson or Harold Shipman on an innocent corporate website!

So let me start at the beginning. Continue reading →

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