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Economic slow down?…then invest in your website 2008-04-29 04:09:28 This should apply to all companies, but is particularly relevant for financial advisers, when a recession looms invest
in your website
beforehand.
Turbulent market conditions make investors nervous and want to withdraw to a safer place, however the right thing to do in many cases is to leave well alone. As consumer confidence drops they’ll [...] Read more:Economic
My workspace 2008-04-30 06:10:13 Apparently it’s obligatory to provide a photo of where you work. Apparently. Anyway not wanting to be left off that bandwagon here’s mine:
The secret to keeping customers up-to-date is via RSS 2008-05-04 12:10:11 1st of May was RSS day which was about promoting understanding of RSS and the benefits it can bring to website managers and their consumers.
What is RSS?
For those who don’t know what RSS is, here’s the definition from the site:
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and [...] Read more:customers
The Spam Pledge 2008-05-12 06:13:35 As JackP rightly states:
If everyone followed this pledge, there would be no financial benefit to anyone sending spam and so we’d get an awful lot less…And just as importantly, buying anything from any of the spammers continues to fund their spamming activities
So I’m going to second this call to arms for the Sophos’ pledge [...] Read more:Pledge
The secret to keeping customers up-to-date is via RSS 2008-05-04 12:10:11 1st of May was RSS day which was about promoting understanding of RSS and the benefits it can bring to website managers and their consumers.
What is RSS?
For those who don’t know what RSS is, here’s the definition from the site:
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format used to deliver information from websites and pages [...] Read more:customers
My workspace 2008-04-30 06:10:13 Apparently it’s obligatory to provide a photo of where you work. Apparently. Anyway not wanting to be left off that bandwagon here’s mine:
Economic slow down?…then invest in your website 2008-04-29 04:09:28 This should apply to all companies, but is particularly relevant for financial advisers, when a recession looms invest
in your website
beforehand.
Turbulent market conditions make investors nervous and want to withdraw to a safer place, however the right thing to do in many cases is to leave well alone. As consumer confidence drops they’ll [...] Read more:Economic
Glasses? 2008-04-24 14:48:10 Do you think Counc. Eileen Kinnear is wearing glasses? Read more:Glasses
Latest project: NJP Hosting 2008-04-17 04:00:25 It’s time to unveil the latest creation from Sponge Project: NJP Hosting
. The brief for the site, run by Nathan a guy I know from over at Web Designer Forum, was simple: dark colours scheme for a new website hosting service, but at no costs must I use images of servers or computers. Hmmm. Cue [...]
1,000 years of Gloucestershire 2008-04-11 06:22:50 I’m slightly late coming to the party, given that it started in April last year, but better late than never! Basically the county of Gloucestershire is 1,000 years old and local government agencies, charities and other groups are organising a range of events to mark the anniversary.
Events include, amongst other things, arts, dance, faith, [...]
Getting naked… 2008-04-08 14:01:51 …my blog and website that is! For those not in the know it’s the annual CSS Naked Day. Basically it’s all about the web standards and semantic HTML.
Websites will still retain a good structure and hierarchy without any visual elements. It goes to prove that is you build the website right, the ability to [...]
Coins get funky 2008-04-04 14:26:05 Who says coins need to be a boring, standard design? Well not the Royal Mint by all accounts!
Link thanks to Ace Jet 170.
Contact Rob Mason for details on website design and build services in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
Accessible search engine 2008-05-14 14:26:01 Stumbled across an interesting concept the other day called net-guide, which is basically an accessible search engine that in turn lists and promotes accessible websites in its results.
The idea is good, but I’m not sure it’s implemented right. For example doing a search on sponge project, returns this site at the top result as [...] Read more:Accessible
Addicted to cubes 2008-05-16 06:59:51 The Man in Blue experiments yet again, by this time with cubes!
Cubescape is a strangely addictive isometric pixel picture game/toy/art tool/application. I say strangely addictive, because you feel compelled to complete yet another image with cube-perfect positioning. I can see this becoming a problem.
Anyway this is an excellent piece of work that [...] Read more:Addicted
Weather and photo mashup 2008-05-21 15:23:35 Really neat idea by Chris Coyier and Richard Felix, that crashes together a weather API (Yahoo’s I think) with Flickr, to give you a weather check for your location and a nice photo!
Try your location. Link via That Standards Guy.
Giant fickin’s laser 2008-05-28 11:25:51 Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing. Basically a giant frickin’ laser built into a military grade aircraft to shoot missiles down and generally wreck havoc with enemy forces.
I particularly like the comment saying it’s: a ray-cannon for everyday tasks! What everyday tasks could you use a ray-gun for? Cleaning you teeth? [...]
Help Firefox get into the Guiness book of records 2008-06-02 10:20:38 I think Firefox
is the best website browser ever and I’m not alone. Firefox is now so popular they are able to attempt an entry into the Guinness Book of Records for the most downloads of a piece of software in 24 hours. This is pretty good stuff for a free, open source bit [...] Read more:Guiness
Design contest…the debate rages on 2008-06-05 05:40:39 I’ve posted on the subject of design competitions before, which failed to reach a suitable conclusion for me, however I did stop entering them shortly afterwards.
But a recent article over at Sitepoint titled Design Contests Made Me A Better Designer has rekindled my interest somewhat. Basically the article is with Richard Scott, a designer who [...]
Design contest…the debate rages on - UPDATE 2008-06-09 06:42:23 In the ongoing “Design contest debate” as I’, calling it, here’s a quick update on the contests entered so far (all via 99 designs):
Entered one that got withdrawn 4 days before it was due to finish! Was hours away from uploading my entry. Lesson learnt: tell them in the comments that you’re going to enter.
Entered [...]
The Accessibility Checklist 2008-06-10 11:47:06 Checklists are all well and good, but by ticking the items off it doesn’t always mean your site will meet the grade. However Aaron’s written a very useful accessibility checklist that will come in very handy to anyone looking to create an accessible site. It’s beauty is it hits all the right notes, but still [...] Read more:Accessibility
, Checklist
Superpower flags redefined 2008-06-10 06:14:03 New superpowers flags
. A set of flags that express more accurately the natures of the world’s existent, up-and-coming, and new superpowers.
Link via Quipsologies.
The Accessibility Checklist 2008-06-10 11:47:06 Checklists are all well and good, but by ticking the items off it doesn’t always mean your site will meet the grade. However Aaron’s written a very useful accessibility checklist that will come in very handy to anyone looking to create an accessible site. It’s beauty is it hits all the right notes, but still [...] Read more:Accessibility
, Checklist
Design contest…the debate rages on - UPDATE 2 2008-06-16 06:24:59 More information on my “Design contest debate” following on from last week’s post. So here goes:
Entered one extra contest above and beyond the ones already entered into. Lesson learnt - too many contests = bad! Essentially I took too much on and ran out of time and focus which affected all of my entries (of [...]
Fun with Squidoo 2008-06-17 03:36:18 So after listening to Seth Godin go on about Squidoo
for so long I finally caved in and setup my own lens. There’s two at the moment:
Website design for schools talking about the things to consider when setting up a school website; and
Tewkesbury - a medieval market town in Gloucestershire, UK which is kind of [...]
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! 2008-07-07 05:41:06 Haven’t a clue what it means, although it’s something to do with the film “The day the earth stood still“. Anyway, the real reason for stating that rather obscure statement is Firefox 3. When you enter about:robots into the address bar you receive the following screen:
Just goes to show that the Mozilla guys do have [...]
Websites for Members of Parliament (MPs) - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 2008-07-04 08:45:45 Part 2 of the Websites
for Members
of Parliament
(MPs) series takes us to Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
’s website.
Design
The overall design of this site is clean, simple and quite pleasant using a of palette light and dark green set against white background with grey text for headings. Use of images is minimal but used to good effect [...]
Latest project: Tirlebrook Primary School 2008-07-03 14:13:53 As a favour to the headmaster at my boy’s primary school, I took on some work to design and build a new website for them. The result is Tirlebrook PrimarySchool
:
The key need for them was a simple and easy to use back end, so I chose the ‘ol faithful Wordpress. I heavily customised Chris [...]
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