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jQuery Countdown Timer Plugin

I’ve had the idea for a countdown timer for a while now. So the last couple of weeks I’ve been plugging away at one. I have sorted out some interesting issues with it. Basically keeping time with Javascript is a pain but I think I’ve solved it. Here...

New role: Startup Marketing Lead

Pollenizer is seeking someone to lead, drive and grow our great team of startup marketing, customer development and customer acquisition peeps. What the role is; Leading a team of 4 customer development/marketing people as they work their butts off to start new web...

jQuery Tabbing Navigation Plugin

Last week I wrote a plugin to do tabbing navigation. I’ve written this javascript so many times in the past, I can’t believe I haven’t turned it into a plugin til now. What came out was the fastest plugin I have ever written. I think it took me about...

Leverage every action

Just polishing off the UnMarketing book I mentioned last week and thought I’d share another lightbulb moment from it. This week it’s that you can easily maximise your promotion by leveraging your actions. Sounds a bit cryptic but it’s actually very...

How to find a good domain name

Hi! My name is Pierre, and I’m a domain junky. I own close to a hundred domain names and I haven’t bought one in over a week! *cue for clapping* Finding a good domain name is a real challenge. You’ll need a lot of creative juice to come up with...

jQuery Dynamic Navigation Plugin

A couple of wees ago I wrote a piece of javascript for the new Wooboard interface. The problem was that there was a tabbing navigation that needed to support many more items than could fit in the screen. This navigation changed depending on what challenges were set....

Which startup idea should you pursue?

So here is a challenge for you. I got an email today from a guy who had 3 ideas he could pursue and he wanted advice on which one to do. I answered with this; Which business idea gets you so excited you could sell it to the world and get up 3 years in a row with full...

jQuery Faux Select Plugin

I wrote this plugin ages ago, but I recently upgraded it to work on optgroups, so I think now it’s worthy of being published. Many times I have received designs that have fancy select boxes. All UI developers know about this problem. Designers seem to think that...

Marketing to the bottom of the barrel

I’m currently reading a great marketing book called UnMarketing, which is a great general read for any web marketers out there, but one thing in particular I found interesting was this graphic: It’s what they call the Hierarchy of Buying. Basically it...