Many clients often ask how to go about monitoring how available their website is, and their are many useful tools online for doing just that. If you're an online business your profit line depends on how available your website is to your audience, and if you are a blogger like moi- well then you may ...

Looks like the Big G put together a new Favicon today. Either that or I hadn't noticed it before.. http://www.google.co.uk/favicon.ico Its not an icon I've seen anywhere else in their marketing. Maybe a rebrand is on its way? I guess *this* is where the power of Twitter comes in, as this is...

How long will it be before we are not only making the switch to digital tv, but making the entire switch to the Web for viewing tv? The slow death of tv is evident all around us. Future business leaders and the youth of today (thankfully Im still in this category) known as Generation Y have grown...

Any website owner or developer knows that getting a website off the ground is never easy. Coming up with the next big idea is one thing- then you have the actually doing - i.e. the development and building of your site and finally once your spangly new site is up and going, you have the bit that mos...

At work we recently underwent some psychometric tests, which were aimed at helping to understand the different skills and preferences that were active in the team. This cognitive understanding will allow us to build teams comprising of people with complementary traits and skills, thus avoiding a na...

It's one of the simplest things you can do to promote your blog or website, but not many of us do it properly. Tagging has a number of benefits, if done correctly and this post summarises the impact that tagging can have on other sites - and ultimately your own traffic. Whats a tag again? Tags are...

At the center of most (if not all) web development projects is the old chestnut we call content management systems. Choosing a CMS for your website, or indeed for your enterprise is no easy task - in Europe alone, you have around 500 systems to choose from. Whether that system is something comple...

Wise man once said, "With great power, comes great responsibility". As developers this holds true, with each one of us ultimately being responsible for our visitors experience on the web. It's for that reason that every company serious about web development needs to be accessibility testing. Serious...

Just watched this film (for like the tenth time), last week. And you know what? - There are definitely parallels to creating an awesome company website, and executing a precise plan of attack against three of the largest casinos in Vegas... Daniel Ocean is released on parole after a four year...

As designers most of us have been victim at some time or other to design theft. Those little warts of the web that come along and think that it's ok to rip off your web design. So what do you do when someone steals your design? I fell victim to design rip off around July of last year - some 14 year...