WEBSITE FINDS YOUR STOLEN OR LOST CAMERA

If this works as it says it does then its a pretty amazing website. We were sent the link this morning by our colleagues in we-studio.ch. Unfortuntely (or rather fortunately) we could not check it out properly as we have not had any of our camera equipment stolen before. You can drag and drop photos taken with your camera into the home page and it will be able to gather the embedded data from it and search the web to see if anyone has posted photos with the same details. We think it might work best if your camera is reported stolen on their site also. Definitely work checking out and would love to know if anyone who had a camera stolen uses it and is successful. http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/

WEB DESIGN & SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINEE GURU WANTED!

Between Tweeting this, blogging that and Sharing the other, it’s time that we get someone to help us out with all the content,  discussing and sharing we want to achieve in 2012. With this in mind we are looking for an ‘all round’ intern to work in our office.  If you love the web, web design, social media, blogging, tweeting, posting, retweeting, sharing, making videos and graphics and want to gain tons of experience looking after a number of different ventures within 3rd Dimension then send us an email info@3rddimension.ie with your CV and any questions you may have.

You do NOT need to have worked as a social media guru before but do need to know just a little about it! This is a great opportunity to gain experience in a number of different fields (and no not farmer fields!)

So if you’re interested get in touch and if not but know someone that might be then simply share this post on your network.

PS You will be vetted by the most important part of our team……..

2012 – THE YEAR OF SHARING!

Help Us To Be Seen & Heard In 2012 By Sharing.

In between the copious amounts of food and drink over the festive period we did a little work on our site. Following the inspirational words & advice of @krishnaDe last month at the #dceb Christmas conference we set about adding share buttons to our website.

At first we tried AddThis which seemed like a pretty popular choice.  However after messing around with it for a while and getting our heads in a spin (could have been the wine) we removed the plugin and installed Share This (http://www.sharethis.com/)

Our site is Word Press so the installation of the plugin was dead simple. Simply go to plugins, install and search for share this. Once the installation is complete it will appear in settings where you can cange the look and behaviour of the buttons. You can add or remove as many buttons as you like. From reading a bit about share tools it is advisable to make sure you don’t over do it on the buttons. Who are your target audience and what platforms do this use?

For us the most beneficial ones were LinkedIn, Twitter & Facebook along with email.  We have even included a FB like. You will see the buttons at the end of every post and page which people can simply click if they like the content they have read or viewed. We still have some mucking about to do with it and would like to have the buttons at the top of each page and post.

So go ahead and try it and simply share us with your network!

JOOMLA…WHAT A PACKAGE!

In case you haven’t seen previous tweets or updates from us on the above package you will be excused for the not recognising the sarcasm in our title. This post is to explain to people still using #Joomla how to embed a #GoogleDoc form into their site. No its not as easy as it should be!

For those that have or are still using #Joomla as their CMS for their website, our deepest sympathies. For those thinking of using it, PLEASE DON’T! For a website package to have their text colour defaulted as white kind of sums it all up.  We ourselves do not use Joomla but on the rare occassion we are asked to update a site for a friend who is still on the Joomla system. Things that take a couple of minutes to do in WordPress take up to 30 minutes to figure out in Joomla. And this is a perfect example.

Our friend (or soon to be bitter enemy if they keep asking us to update their site) asked if we could make a Google Doc form for their site and embed it on one of their pages. Now we have done this numerous times on our own site so we said no problem. Creating the form was easy thanks to brilliant Google docs. Copying and pasting the code into the page in question within Joomla was a whole different ball game. For some reason Joomla will not hold the code and you end up with just a bit of text that says  ”Loading…’ If you are experiencing this problem do the following: (It toook us over 30minutes to find out how to do this)

1) Go to site – global configuration

2) Change Default Editor to ‘Editor – no editor’ This will change the article manager to html code only

3) Copy & Paste the embed code from your google docs form into your article.

You can then change the global settings back when you want to edit other articles. BE WARNED – If you change your global settings back and then go back to the article containing the form, make some changes, it will not read the form any more and will need to be redone through steps 1-3 above.

As we have said before – Great Package!

PS Just before we posted this we tried it on a couple of different browsers and computers….Wouldn’t you know it doesn’t work! Thanks #Joomla

A LITTLE BIT OF CHEER

This is one if the nicest Chrsitmas e-cards we have received this year. It’s from IADT in Dun Laoghaire and credit to Anita Gaughan the 2nd Year student in her animation degree course for putting it together. Its only about 30 seconds long but worth a watch to warm you up today!

http://www.iadt.ie/en/InformationAbout/NewsEvents/News/Title,2414,en.html