The Splat Cooking Blog

We are probably a few years late on this – but Splat is finally on Facebook. It’s an easy and quick way to find out about our latest products and, more importantly, get last minute information like events and shows, cancellations, venue changes etc. Just follow the link below and “add” / “join the group”

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Splat-Cooking/90777977986?ref=nf

We’re also experimenting with sending the same news updates via twitter. You can follow our tweets @splatcooking.

Now that the Christmas rush has died down, I’ve decided to try to clean up a number of ragged edges of the various websites that Splat operates. Visitors to www.splatcooking.net will be greeted by a simple set of choices accessible by clicking on the relevant graphic. I have also started on a cookery school page (called classroom) to contain the rapidly growing number of videos about cooking that the Splat team keep posting to various places on the web.

Next step is to merge the store and the other sites into one…don’t hold your breath!

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originally uploaded by Peter Glock.

Here’s a test picture from Flickr loaded into our blog. This means that we can post pictures, our own or our customers & friends, to Flickr then create a blog entry from there.

We’d like to invite all our visitors to suggest cooking related pictures that we can share.

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this is a test post to see if I can post images in the blog from our in-house gallery. The image itself is the one I use as a desktop background on my laptop (ah, sweet..). It seems to work! Next stage is to post some of the video clips of children preparing food..

For the curious, I use a plugin to iPhoto on my Mac from zzamboni.org which allows me to export photos directly from iPhoto to a coppermine gallery hosted on some free space from our isp. I then installed a Wordpress plugin from stilglog which allows an author to choose any image from the gallery to add to a post.

I’ve also sucessfully tested an integration with Flickr so that we can post images direct from our splatcooking album as well.

So, we are now totally picture-tastic (to abuse Smashy & Nicey).

Here at Splat we’re mostly mac users. There’s a widget available that let’s you post straight from Dashboard. Take a look at www.panris.com

Oh, and another one I’m trying is rapidmetablog.