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June 2008

Black Hat Series No.4 :
Help !! my website has been penalised - What Can I Do ?

Posted by: Andy on 27 Jun 2008 @ 10:50 pm Category: Search Engine Optimisation

This is post #4 in "The Black Hat Series" - a series of blog posts aimed at educating website owners about the promise and pitfalls of Black Hat SEO strategies and techniques. The last post in this series described Search Engine Guidelines - where they are, and why they are important.

This post looks at how you can tell if you have been penalised - and what you can do about it.

Oh No...I...


Adapting to New Technology

Posted by: Blair on 26 Jun 2008 @ 5:23 pm Category: Programming and Coding for the Web

As everyone knows, technology is always changing and advancing at a rapid rate that makes it difficult to keep up with. The web is no exception to this as I found recently.

Last year I had a break from web programming to work in another field and in the meantime a technology called AJAX up and made itself popular. AJAX has proved so popular not because it provides anything new. In fact,...

One image CSS menus

Posted by: Bart on 24 Jun 2008 @ 9:32 am Category: Web Design

If you are a frequent world wide web surfer, you might have noticed menus on some websites where the hover state of a navigation item takes a second to load. This is probably because the menu is image based and the inactive and hover states are created by two separate images. This means that the hover state image won't load until the user moves their mouse over it.

I see this happening...


Call me crazy....

Posted by: Emily on 19 Jun 2008 @ 1:57 pm Category: Marketing

There’s that something about a ringing phone. For me – I have a few reactions:

  • I smile, and rush to pick it up because I can see the number and it’s someone I’ve been dying to speak with
  • I cringe, wondering if I have the energy for a conversation that I assume is coming
  • I scream (internally of course) because I’m already juggling 15 things, and a phone call is about to distract me (again)...

Adobe AIR

Posted by: Erin on 12 Jun 2008 @ 10:52 am Category: Web Design

Nearly everyday I see something new on the web that is innovative and pushing the boundaries. Whether it be a funky web design, a powerful graphic, or something more technical, it is apparent that the users experience on the web is forever changing. Not that we didn't all know that, but with the rapid adoption of Ajax technologies in the past few years, the Internet has seen a vast...


Geek Speak

Posted by: Vanessa on 4 Jun 2008 @ 10:39 am Category: Programming and Coding for the Web

I find that I am both fluent in English, and Geeky Technical. I can swing both ways and talk fluently to the technically abled. But I also have the ability to speak non-technically to those clients or prospects who aren't in on the industry, terms or really the technology.

I think the hardest part is determining the technical level of the person you are speaking to. It is very easy to...


Your Homepage – Your Store Front

Posted by: Jason on 2 Jun 2008 @ 10:50 am Category: Web Design

When creating a website, the homepage is one of most important facets of the web design process and generally the rest of the site will flow from this page, so it is very important to get your homepage right first. A homepage in many ways is responsible for answering the key questions a visitor will have. Hopefully in writing this blog I can enlighten how users interact with a website and...


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