Web Design Ireland

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After ...

I think this is probably one of the few and far between personal posts that I have on here, and this web design and development transmission has been interrupted for just one tiny personal post. For those of you expecting your usual dose of technology musings I apologize. My sister Claire ...

There's only so much one person can do when promoting a site. If you are planning on hitting the big time, and receiving *thousands* of visitors a day, there's only one way you'll be able to grow exponentially. User generated content. This has been a bit of a buzz word in marketing ...

We have heard plenty of doom and gloom about the recession recently, but in my opinion the recession can be good for you. Good for both software entrepreneurs and for business in general. Less is more. Its a lesson loads of companies are learning now, with the current economic climate, and all ...

Picked up an interesting / innovative use of SMS over on Yahoo News. A bull elephant named "Kimani" in Kenya has been fitted with a mobile SMS chip which broadcasts an SMS text message when it approaches a specially designed "GeoFence", developed using a global positioning system that mirrors the animal conservatory’s boundaries -alerting the rangers to ...

It's a problem many developers have come up against in their career - working with a traditional print designer that thinks that design is design is design. Worse still is a corporate environment that fails to understand the same, with the result being that the finished solution is likely to be substandard. Unfortunately the ...

It's been a while but Yahoo have eventually got around to launching a new version of their online calendar. It is of course, draggy / droppy AJAXy goodness. Web based calendars have long been the staple of big hitters with Google and Yahoo both offering online versions and Microsoft lagging behind with it's offline ...

How our tiny little minds work: User interface elements for Widgets using JQuery Wikipedia List of open source games. Have to try some of these badboys. Seth asks an interesting question. Is effort a Myth? Who needs Photoshop. 8 Awesome Google Anayltics Hacks Linux partition from Windows They are bringing back the Delorian! A programmers tale of learning Interaction ...

Browsing through my feed reader today I noticed that Google is now running Adsense for games, As a result of their Adscape acquisition earlier this year, and is now integrating their ad technology specifically for games played within the browser. This would include flash based games and would provide additional ...

I've always been of the opinion, if you can't be first, be second but be better. Many people have pioneered the way online only for other people to come along and steal their thunder by being better. Facebook and MySpace being prime examples. The importance of breaking news first has long ...