Torkil Johnsen

HTML email can be done right - totally permission based, simple, clean, readable HTML. Gmail’s rendering is unfortunately not up to scratch. This video is a cheeky attempt to get the attention of the Gmail team.

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Here are some easy code snippets that comes in handy on all websites I set up. Consistent urls are important for search engines, so I have a few small code snippets to make sure everything works as planned.
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“The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.”

I recommend that anyone currently involved in setting up or sending e-mail newsletters stop by this site to check out what you can do to contribute. This should be highly relevant for anyone with a CMS out there…

Email Standards

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This week a really strange and really nice thing happened to Torkil the disgruntled PubMatic user. I now feel convinced that I have to try PubMatic for real for at least another month, and do it a bit more wholeheartedly this time. (more…)

The test period was short-lived. I wrote a small piece of PHP code which loaded Google Adsense and Pubmatic randomly, and as it turns out, pubmatic only gave me 50% the number of page views that Adsense does. So basically it looks like Pubmatic will take 50% of your profits. Nice. I did use several ad programs, but none gave the return that Adsense did. Now I am adopting a new strategy… (more…)

I came across a blog post on Sitepoint.com by Matt Mickiewicz commenting on a new ad program called PubMatic that supposedly will maximize your profits by optimizing your ads for you. I’ve taken it upon myself to test and review this ad program and post my findings here on my blog.
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I just came across this testing page: SlickSpeed Selectors Test. I am also testing the Firefox plugin Deepest Sender and using it to blog about it directly from my Firefox browser. It’s the first tome, so it’ll be interesting to see how this turns out.

Google just released chart support for Spreadsheets. A long-awaited and almost inevitable enhancement to the already excellent features of this online Excel competitor. The interface has been adjusted and a new chart button has been added on the Edit menu.
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Seems like Joomla has gotten 9 slots in GSoC, not bad at all, but still: Drupal got 20 or so, so even if Joomla has got a very large forum userbase, Drupal might have a more active community. What do you think?
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Read the official announcement
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