May 2008
What's the difference?
Posted by: Emily on 29 May 2008 @ 8:43 am Category: The Wondrous Wide Web
I used to love MySpace. It was the first real social networking site that appealed to me. I was introduced to MySpace when living and working overseas - by a colleague and wonderful friend who spent hours a day looking through profiles and sending messages and photos to his friends. When I started up my profile – he showed me how to get a skin for it – and add and move boxes around the...
Forms: The Good the Bad and The Ugly
Posted by: Warwick on 23 May 2008 @ 3:26 pm Category: Web Design
From a simple contact form to a detailed profile series or checkout process. Forms are one of the most important elements of your website.
A bad form can lead to poor conversion rates, frustrated users and the loss of customers. A good form however can make what we call “Raving Fans” out of your customers.
Here are some quick tips we follow whenever we make a new form. If you have...
It's Twitter time
Posted by: Darryl on 18 May 2008 @ 1:30 pm Category: Web Gadgets
Do you Twitter?
No idea what it is?
Twitter is what has been described as 'microblogging' whereby users send the equivalent of SMS messages to their twitter account, which friends and others can follow to see what you are up to.
Sound dull, maybe, but for many it isn't and recent events are showing how micro blogging is changing the delivery of immediate breaking news.
Read Twittering Away...
Designing Web Success - Intentional or accidental
Posted by: Darryl on 18 May 2008 @ 1:23 pm Category: The Wondrous Wide Web
A question that has been top of mind for quite some time (I can take a while to let ideas go) is whether you can actually engineer large scale success on the web or not.
One of my recent blog posts on my blog site covers this - click to read.
Mapping The Future
Posted by: Blair on 16 May 2008 @ 4:38 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web
Today I got to play around with Google Maps. If you haven't experienced Google Maps before then I suggest you get yourself on there right now. The best thing about Google Maps is that it has its own API which you can use to embed customised maps into your website.I know a some customers already have Google Maps on their contact page showing the exact location of their offices. But, what...
Wouldn't it be cool if...
Posted by: Bart on 15 May 2008 @ 3:27 pm Category: Web Design
...I knew how to do everything on the web! But unfortunately, I don't, which is a shame because there are some really cool things you can do these days. And the best thing is that a lot of the times the only ingredients you will need is creativity and your best online buddy, Google.
When creating a new website I always try to make something about it different from anything I have done in...
Designing to the Client not the trend
Posted by: Warwick on 9 May 2008 @ 1:17 pm Category: Web Design
In most industries you are required to keep up to date with the latest technology, trends and training. This is has never been more important than in today's information technology industries and web design is no different. With "Web 2.0" and the idea of a "Web 2.0 design" it is hard not to get caught up in the rush and just design what you think looks "Web 2.0ish" and then dump the...
Black Hat Series No. 2 - Black Hat SEO Penalties
Posted by: Andy on 5 May 2008 @ 10:27 pm Category: Search Engine Optimisation
OK, so you've heard that Black Hat SEO techniques can give you a quick (and sometimes massive) boost in rankings and traffic. Sounds just like what you are after? But what are the implications of using some of these techniques? What are the risks involved?
This is post #2 in The Black Hat Series - a series of blog posts aimed at educating website owners about the the promise and pitfalls...
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