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 [...]
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Excuse me, you dropped your shadow…
Drop shadows, gradients and bad shading effects (along with Comic Sans!) are the bane of bad web web design and a curse of Web 2.0! Everybody’s using them. Used effectively they look great and can add real depth and dimension to a good design. Used improperly though and they smack of amateurish inexperience and band-wagon jumping (I [...]
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.
Now where did I leave my keys…?
We here at Arekibo sometimes take the opportunity of the peace and quiet of home to work on designs, documents, reports, etc. Up until now this meant either making sure we have a copy of the relevant files on our laptops or memory keys, or that we email those files to ourselves. Sometimes (more often than is convenient) you leave that all important document either on your desktop in work, or worse, on your desktop at home.
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?
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 [...]
A picture says a thousand words
There is a school of thought that would argue that a visitor to a website makes lasting impressions of their visit in a just a few seconds.
Is Bing a flash in the pan or the next big thing?
The search market has always being very competitive with Google always the forerunner. However, with the release of Bing Microsoft’s share of the search market has risen to 9% (up almost 1.6% in a month). Granted it is far too early to judge if this is the start of an upward trend but it is [...]