Reader notice. I'm feeling like a bit of a rant. Ok? Im sick sore and tired of listening to certain segments of the design / development community spout about how brilliant a coder they are. Just because they use Notepad. Its not big and its not clever. And here's why. Ok, so we know yo...

As stated in a few posts, I wasn't really happy with our site design, as it wasn't producing the killer response that I wanted. The bounce rates overall were quite high, despite the fact that I had moved content into a more pleasing position (or so I thought). So the following are ten simple steps I...

Programmers by nature are problem solvers, clients come to the table with a problem, and its our job to tell the computer how to solve it. Unfortunately I've discovered that all too often the first solution to a problem becomes the only solution, as humans we are inheritantly lazy when it comes to p...

I was recently asked by a designer friend of mine if I knew of any good resources for publishing graphic design work online. The friend in question - (hi Jules - ta for the blog post inspiration) comes from a traditional print background, and not wanting to spend loads of time messing around creatin...

Yes I know, we changed the design for the second time this year. From looking at our statistics I wasn't happy with the way the site was performing, Bounce rates were high (70 - 80%) - and I wanted to make sure that it wasn't to do with the design. Some of you may know the following statistics (sour...

One website I visit quite often - normally through Google searches is experts-exchange. Searches on particular programming problems seem to be a covered on many different topics at the site, and I for one have found the answer to many a tough cookie. However I have one gripe / pet hate with the site...

As webdevelopers most of us have been born and bred on Adobe's (formerly Macromedia's) weapon of choice Dreamweaver. I have seen the various incarnations of the program through from version 3, to UltraDev (cutting my teeth with ASP), to the latest version CS3. However there are a couple of alternati...

At the start of this week the big G had a community preview release of Google App Engine, a platform for delivering scalable web applications. Basically the gist of the system is to hand all of your code to Google, who will run it for you on their servers. You get all the advantages of the Google in...

Some of you may or may not know that tommorow is CSS Naked day. Strip off. Pose. Enjoy. I've included some ASP code for your header file, which will easily determine whether you should be in the nude or not. Webdistortion will be naked tommorow. .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: sm...

I was giving you all a sneak peek the other day of our news management script. Well the asp.net program is now live, and available for purchase at the cost of $110 You are all invited to come have a nosy around, and see what you think yourselves. I'm planning on adding support for a few other databa...