Monthly Archives: March 2009

James Jeffersons Web Design Talk @ Equator

Thought as i was in a good mood I’d post a link to a talk, that I missed, by James over @ Equator. Last week he did a talk about website design audits – and I wanted to use those keywords in that order for a quick bit of testing – so seemed like a [...]

Is this the Best Portfolio Site in the World?

Ok Probably not but Noah Stokes portfolio site is damn funny!
Cheers to Jamie for the link.

Text Contrast – Website Testing Series

It’s such a simple thing but designers are not per se website designers – in the same way that SEO people are not website designers. I can’t use photoshop to save myself but its important that all designers understand the basics of a webpage and having a good contrast between text and background is hugely [...]

Is 0808 000 0133 the most annoying phone number in the world?

I am literally about to invoke the insurance policy pertaining to my iPhone – I am going to throw it througha  window onto the road hope it gets ran over by a car and then jump on it repeatedly just to make sure that the thing is dead. And all this just to get away [...]

Google Logo Changes

Every day you go to Google they seem to have a new logo. Its getting to be a bit dull now – it was fun to see a changed logo every so often but now its just silly. I cant remember the last time I actually saw the good old fashioned Google Logo.
That said todays [...]

Checking Alt attributes – Website Testing Series

One of the cool things in CSS is the ability to add styles to elements with certain attribute values – so you can style based upon the context of an HTML element. During website testing a useful thing to do is to test and make sure that images, where appropriate, have an alt attribute.
Having a [...]

Mercury Thread hits the road

Tomorrow I’ll be presenting to a selection of Scottish Developers about my favourite subject Search Engine Optimization. It’s up in Dundee and you can find details about it @ eventbrite.
In essence I’ll be talking about the affect that server side issues and how HTML can be used to improve SEO performance of websites. HTTP headers [...]

Can anyone actually ‘launch’ a website effectively

I’m going to pull, what’s left, of my hair out if I have to deal with yet another one of my clients having an web development/design agency launch a website with no account for the affect upon either the clients sales or natural search.
Getting a new website should be a fun journey for clients – [...]

Seven Things – Tagging along

So today I’ve been dragged into some link exchange system (I wish I’d thought of it). I’m to write seven things about myself and then put give some info (and link love) on other relevant people I know. This has been really hard ,so thanks to Felicitas for dragging me into this!

Online Google Analytics Training

Just got an email from PPC Andy about this Google offering online training in Google Analytics. I’m trying to pencil in time over the next few weeks to run through some of the stuff they’ve got listed – I really like messing about with the custom reporting modules just now but it looks like there [...]