Archive for the ‘web development’ Category

Miley Cyrus becomes a web designer - a message to the Outsourcing community

We received an email this morning from some company who provide outsourcing services and was surprised to see that it was sent by Miley Cyrus.


Go Mocking Bird and Lovely Charts

Every now and then, simple apps come along that grab your attention. Whether you use them for an hour, a day or the rest of your life, they’re great things to have access to. One of the very great things about web based apps is just that; they are web based and so can be [...]


Looking for inspiration

A new site called Site Inspire has been setup to catalogue and catagorise websites that have been submitted to it, not by genre, but by style, theme and type.


Shaddapp@font-face!!!

Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]


Your websites performance impacts shopper behavior

I suppose it is common sense that if your website is slow to render that your customers will be dissatisfied…


Google ignores meta keywords

We’ll let Matt Cutts, from Google fill you in.


AJAX “crawls”? Google to the rescue!

Google has offered their experience and support to make AJAX sites easy to crawl. Sounds like a win-win?


10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines…

Smashing Magazine have an excellent article called 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines.
Lots of very good points and observations.
Check it out


The browser that just won’t die…

As a web developer and long time supporter of aesthetic design, especially with regard to good web design, I have long embraced the recent developments that (have continued to) make the web great. I loved AJAX when it first arrived, jQuery is ground breaking and the design standards that have been adopted (and adapted) over [...]


Free stock photography

The good people over at Smashing Magazine have provided a comprehensive list of free and commercial stock photography websites. This is an extraordinary resource, often an invaluable one. We regularly use stock photography in Arekibo to give context and improve our template designs so this resource is highly useful. Be sure to check out the table at [...]