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What are all the Tweets about Twitter?

DanITech | April 18, 2008

What is Twitter?
Twitter is a micro blog service which enables you to post immediate updates (”tweets”) of up to 140 characters in answer to the question “what are you doing?”. It is a service that allows your friends and family (”followers”) to stay up to date with your updates, thoughts, whereabouts etc via the web, Instant Messenger (IM) or by text messages.

Twitter as a Business Tool
Whilst predominately a social networking site, businesses are also adopting the Twitter services as a powerful marketing tool to develop relationships with their clients by announcing news headlines, special offers, customer support and feedback etc.

Your “tweets” can be imported to your website/blog or alternatively, TwitterFeed is a service that directs your blog/rss into your Twitter account, whilst developers can use the API to make their own Twitter tools.

Twitter: http://twitter.com
TwitterFeed: http://twitterfeed.com
Twitter Fan Wiki: http://twitter.pbwiki.com

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Speed Cameras, Police Checks, Speeding & Motoring Blog

DanITech | April 7, 2008

A new motoring Blog will keep the road user fully up to date with the latest speed cameras, police checks, motoring news and changes to the law.

The service is provided free by Motor Lawyers and whilst they save driving licences for a living, prevention is always better than cure! :0)

Facebook Group

Have you spotted a new speed camera in your area or want to air your views on anything that affects the motorist, such as law enforcement, speed limits, driving standards or any other legislation? Motor Lawyers now also provide a Page and Group on Facebook, making it even easier to stay up to date with current speed camera hot spots and motoring issues.

Project/Services provided by DanITech:

Customised Blog to fit current website design;
Search Engine Optimisation;
Hosting.

Motor Lawyers Blog: www.blog.motorlawyers.co.uk
Motor Lawyers on Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Motor-Lawyers
Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29551530633
Updates and Alerts on Twitter: http://twitter.com//motorlawyers

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Tutorial: How do I Create a Favicon?

DanITech | April 1, 2008

What is a Favicon?
A favicon (the abbreviation for ‘favourites icon’ and also known as a shortcut icon) is a small logo that visitors will see in their browser’s address bar when they visit a website or when they add a site to their favourites. It is a great way to add brand recognition to a website and distinguishes a site from others when a visitor views their favourites menu.

FireFox support animated favicons and it is believed that other browsers will soon follow suit:

Basic Tutorial: How do I create a Favicon?

Create an image 16×16 pixels using your favourite graphic editor such as Photoshop, Microsoft Paint etc.
To convert the graphic into an icon file, we recommend the following on-line tool:
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
Upload the favicon.ico to the root directory on your webserver, you can verify that it has been uploaded correctly by typing: http://www.yoursite.com/favicon.ico (replace yoursite.com with your website’s address);
Add the following code to the <HEAD> of your web pages (at the very least your home/index page):

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >

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Motor Law Answers - Online Motoring Offences Database

DanITech | February 4, 2008

Motor Law Answers is the free online motoring offences database, explaining all aspects of motoring offences and how the laws of the road are applied and affect the UK motorist.

Motor Law Answers is not a forum or an opinion based website; all frequently asked questions are answered only by experienced Motor Lawyers.

Project/Services provided by DanITech:

Customised Website;
Search Engine Optimisation;
Hosting & Email facility.

Motor Law Answers
www.motorlawanswers.co.uk

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Tutorial: How do I add a YouTube Video to my Website or Blog?

DanITech | January 14, 2008

Tutorial: How do I add a YouTube Video to my Website or Blog?

How to add a YouTube Video to your Website or Blog

YouTube have made it very easy to share videos via your website or blog with the minimum of fuss.

To add a video to your site, take the following steps:

Next to any YouTube video you will find the About This Video box.
Select Customize if you want to change a video’s style.
Copy the Embed code and paste it into your HTML code.
You can change the size of the video by amending the width and height of the object:

<object width=”212.5″ height=”175“><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nfx3aDAlKtA&rel=1″></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/nfx3aDAlKtA&rel=1” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”212.5″ height=”175″></embed></object>

Tips: YouTube and Increasing your Website’s Traffic

When adding your own videos: Include a link to your website in the description (preferably at the beginning of the description so by default it is visible) and add tags relevant to the video and your website.
Link to other videos of relevance. As you drive traffic to YouTube, a link to your website will be added for example:

Sites Linking to this Video:
88 clicks from http://www.fiatracing.com/
10 clicks from http://www.motorlawyers.co.uk/fiat_racing_challenge.htm