Web Design & Standards: The Archives
Navigate Like A Pro In FireFox
Lifehacker has a post about dragging unlinked URLs to the address bar to navigate.
Let’s say you come across an URL that hasn’t been linked. Select it (careful with spaces at the start and end) and drag it up to the address bar. Release the mouse and FireFox will automagically jump to that page.
In fact, you [...]
Posted in Web Browsers on Monday, January 8 2007 | 1 Comment »
How Semantic XHTML And CSS Can Benefit Your Website
Mani Sheriar has written an interesting post on the Vitamin website about her experiences with XHTML and CSS web design.
Though Mani touches upon the basic benefits of streamlined CSS/XHTML design, like improved accessibility, page loading and search engine friendliness, she focuses mostly on the long-term benefits of the Standards-based approach.
How easy is it to approach [...]
Posted in Web Design & Standards on Saturday, January 6 2007 | Leave a comment »
Operator Firefox Extension Gives Microformats Wings
Finally! I’ve been watching discussions on Microformats avidly over the last year. The debate over microformats seemed to be all very academic, as no tools existed to locate and harness microformat data.
I’ve just discovered the Operator extension for FireFox, which is a plugin to detect and debug microformats on any web page. I’ve tested this [...]
Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design & Standards on Saturday, December 30 2006 | Leave a comment »
Death Of The Pageview And Other Crazy Prophecies
I love reading MicroPersuasion, but I think Steve Rubel has flipped his lid by declaring the death of the pageview!
I am going to make an argument that whatever succeeds the page view (RIP) needs to go beyond counting traffic. In a Long Tail world we shouldn’t care about big amalgamated numbers. Marketers are going to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, December 20 2006 | Leave a comment »
Cameron Moll - Griding The 960
Cameron Moll recently redesigned his website to a width compatible with a 1024 x 768 pixel screens. I’ve started to become convinced that this is the way to go, as 800 x 600 resolution monitors slide even further into obscurity.
Anyway, Cameron recently posted some useful grid images that you can use in CSS design to [...]
Posted in Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, December 19 2006 | Leave a comment »
AdSense In The Afterlife?
I had a giggle at the title of Eric Giguere’s post, Do You Have An Adsense Will?
Imagine it: you fall under a bus tomorrow and the next day your solicitor writes to Google requesting that your AdSense cheques are forwarded to your new address in Hades….
Seriously though, we’ve all heard the dire warnings about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Website Strategy on Tuesday, December 19 2006 | Leave a comment »
Alternative Search Engines
Google isn’t the only search engine in the world, you know! The Listible website has a growing list of alternative/new search engines that just might be worth a look.
Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, May 31 2006 | Leave a comment »
Announcing BiblioIreland
Announcing our latest website launch - BiblioIreland, an authoritative online guide to Irish books. The site uses WordPress as a content management platform and implements several available plugins to enhance the user experience.
Posted in Announcements, Web Design & Standards on Friday, March 24 2006 | Leave a comment »
Google Gets A Fantasy Facelift
Andy Rutledge recently decided to review the famous Google homepage and found some of the design decisions lacking in thought. We turn the attention back to your own website and look at how some design decisions can be wanting in retrospect.
Posted in Web Design & Standards on Monday, February 20 2006 | Leave a comment »
Zero Dollars, a Little Talent and 30 Days
Jennifer Laycock - an author at Search Engine Guide website - is trying to set up a profitable online venture in the next 30 days and is providing a daily progress report. The series is a fascinating insight into developing an online business and provides a lot of information about the kinds of tools that exist to help promote and earn money from a Web-based business.
Posted in Blogging on Sunday, November 20 2005 | 1 Comment »
