Now you can get 8 for £1 (+50p p&p) until the end of October.

Details at http://bit.ly/LibDrinksBeermatsOffer

To help things go with a swing, we’ve just had some Liberal Drinks beermats printed.

They cost only £1 per a pack of 4, with 50p postage per order.

If you’d like to order some, they’re available at http://bit.ly/LibDrinksBeermats.

Next stop a Lib Dem pizza knife for Pizza, pasta, poppadoms and politics?

PS: If you’d rather send a cheque, just post it to “Martin Tod, 3 Weeke Manor House, Loyd Lindsay Square, Winchester, SO22 5NB”, or if you’d rather send your payment via electronic banking, please email me for details.

Following the addition of the Twitter Follow button on Tuesday, yesterday we added a Google +1 button.

What fun…

Just so you don’t feel left out, it’s now installed on FlockTogether.

Follow @flocktogether

The problem with this is that there are a LOT of mobile devices out there with a wide range of capabilities.

Fortunately, the good people at Handset Detection have come up with an incredibly simple API that means FlockTogether knows if you’re looking at it with a mobile, and knows what the capability is (screensize etc.) if you’re using a mobile.

(There are cleverer ways of doing this with installations like Tera-WURFL and WURFL – but they kept crashing my server so I gave up).

So Handset Detection it is.  All I need to do now is code the mobile version of the site!

PS: Hat-tip to browscap too – which I’m also using and which also gives useful information about the browser looking at your page.

Fortunately, Microsoft has seen the light and is working to get rid of it.

They’ve kindly provided some code which only appears to IE6 users asking them to upgrade.

If you want to see what Flock Together looks like under IE6, then go here - http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php.

Still not a thing of beauty (and IE6 seems to be having quite a big argument with the Facebook box), but at least there’s a nice big message telling people to change browser.

Click on the ‘Feedback’ tab to the left, or go directly to the Uservoice site to have your say about how Flock Together can improve and I’ll do my best (in my free time) to implement the suggested changes.

Just hit one of these radio buttons:

Flock Together now also pulls any by-elections that it doesn’t already have semi-automatically off the ALDC website.

It doesn’t show them all – just the ones with contact details – but it should help keep Flock Together more easily up to date.

Check out this example from St Paul’s ward, Winchester.

They also now show up if you share a page on Facebook (also from St Paul’s).

Tweet

in the top right hand corner of each event page.

Let me know what you think.