Category Archives: Random Stuff

And I’m off…

Today I’m packing my bags and with wife and offspring in tow, am flying to South Africa for 10 weeks. One of the benefits of being a web designer is that you can generally do it from pretty much anywhere with an internet connection. This year we’re doing a house swap with a couple in South Africa who are looking to move to the UK… they get our flat in Highbury for 10 weeks during the winter, and we get their villa near Cape Town for 10 weeks with pool, tennis court & trampoline in the summer… doesn’t seem fair really! 

Fear not fellow bloggers and gite owners, I will still be checking in, and still designing gite websites and blogs, but you may find there’s a bit of a sun glare on some of my posts in the next few weeks!

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Screentoast out of beta with audio

Most of the WordPress training videos on Gite Guru use Camtasia Studio for the screen recording. It’s a great bit of kit, but is a bit of a sledgehammer for cracking a relatively small nut and weighs in pretty expensive.

I’ve been playing with Screentoast for the past few months, and it’s good, but lacked audio recording capability until the most recent release. Read More »

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Celebrity cookbook website launch

I know… nothing whatsover to do with marketing a gite, but it’s a useful site none the less… a new website with recipes and videos from all the celebrity and famous chefs of the world, over at Cookstr

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