My coding skills are a bit out of practice these days – I hack about in PHP a fair bit but in terms of CSS I need to brush up. So when someone said to me – can we resize a webpage into an iframe so we syndicate the content I thought no prob. And [...]
Category Archives: Website Design
Explicit Web Podcast
May 25, 2010 – 2:35 pm
Ok. I love podcasts. I can listen in my bed, on a train or in my car using my itrip and get some views from people who generally I trust but also other stuff. During my recent ramblings into HTML5 and some research I looked on itunes for some pieces to listen to. The coolest [...]
Text Contrast – Website Testing Series
March 25, 2009 – 12:00 pm
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 [...]
The Great Online Advert Swindle
September 10, 2008 – 12:33 pm
God I’m getting annoyed today – was happy when I got into the office but now I’m angry and getting angrier. And today the object of my impatience and wrath are website adverts. Not the crappy little popups telling me I’m the millionth visitor or that I have spyware and should click on some Windows [...]
Using links to improve user experiences
July 7, 2008 – 8:40 am
Quick gripe for Monday. Noticed today that BigMouthMedia have a Tumblr page these days – only noticed because it links to a post I did previously. Anyway from this I found my way to their Twitter page and from here to their new homepage with updated flash movie. So here I am with a wee [...]
When on earth will web developers start using search engine friendly redirects?
June 13, 2008 – 10:13 am
Once again, for about the tenth time in as many weeks, I’ve found redirects on websites made by supposedly good web companies using the wrong kind of redirects and F**king up my clients results when they launch a new website. All the way through any redesign/development project the most important thing to be aware of [...]
Legality of Using Stock Photography on a Website
June 5, 2008 – 4:22 pm
I’ve been messing about with a couple of sites for my own amusement recently. Build up something just to see if I can. I know there are far more pressing things I should be doing but I’ve been in the mood for taking it a bit easier for a couple of weeks.
Flash Tween Library
April 28, 2008 – 3:23 pm
I don’t know a lot about Flash – probably as for a long time it was more of a help than a hinderance on websites (mostly due to Flash developers than Flash itself). But during a chat with Paddy from Equator – he’s their main flash monkey that said he’s not responsible for their current [...]
Direct Response (Behaviourally Adaptive) Websites
April 23, 2008 – 11:38 pm
What if your website could talk directly to your consumers? I don’t mean just simply be relevant but be able to intuit from their actions what they really wanted from your website and then return tyhe appropriate messages? It would deliver better conversion rates and drive up your profitability. Irrelevant of how much it cost [...]