- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 15: Stickify your blog!
August 14th, 2007
Following on the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge, the task today was to ’stickify’ your blog.
Darren at Problogger says:
“It revolves around identifying key points where traffic is entering your blog and then optimizing those points for stickiness either by providing means for subscribing via RSS or email or by driving people deeper into [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 12 & 13, and an update on progress…
August 14th, 2007
The 31 days to a Better Blog Challenge continues…
The task for Day 12 is to Introduce Yourself to another Blogger.
“Email another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog. You don’t need to ask them to link to you or anything – the point isn’t to get any specific outcome other than to [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 10: Declutter your sidebar
August 9th, 2007
I’m still there and up to day 10 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge. The challenge set by Problogger Darren was something that I had already begun thinking about whilst stuck in a bad traffic jam earlier today. Yes, de-clutter your side bar. Read my thoughts below on how I will be [...]
- Fixing the web
August 7th, 2007
Does the web need fixing? The Web certainly performs adequately as an information source, but how well does Web technology itself work?
Useful article with interviews with tech stakeholders at xhtml.com
- Getting YouTube code to validate (updated)
July 26th, 2007
When I moved my blog over to Wordpress after blogging neatly and perfectly and in control with the most excellent Modx, I began to use many of the gizmo’s and widgets which make my blog abit more ‘Web 2.0′.
Usually when designing sites, I don’t use other people’s bits of code or plug-ins, as I am designing purely for the purpose of creating a custom site for a purpose for the client. But with Wordpress and enjoying the ease of blogging and playing, I’ve ventured into ‘widget world’ and ‘embedding objects’ too. So what is my problem with alot of it?
Validation – YouTube and many others bits of code meant my site failed validation of its mark up with the W3C Validator. But I did find an easy cure to remedy this nasty condition…
- Webcredible article on improving accessibility for motor impaired users
July 24th, 2007
Webcredible’s latest article on improving accessibility for motor impaired users.
- iPhones and mobile media
July 13th, 2007
The launch of the new iPhone has made me really think abut handheld and mobile design again. Although not being launched until later in the year over here in the UK, I’ve been researching what changes I may need to make in designing sites to adapt to the iPhone.
Later in this article, I’ll mention about how non-profits should also be thinking about mobile technology for communicating their cause. It goes hand in hand together, me the designer creating their site, and the organisations themselves thinking about how they can effectively communicate with their users in another media.
- Free CSS and XHTML courses
June 19th, 2007
WestCiv’s popular and recommeded free courses in XHTML and CSS are back on-line.
Yes, they are really free! Read more to find out.
- Retro Websites
May 20th, 2007
Looking from the perspective of accessibility, thankfully the webworld has moved on. But still sometimes you find a website that was designed some years back with the lovely animated gifs and flashing and rotating banners that would make most screenreaders balk. Read on to find out more about a great example of retro web design. (actually reminds me of some MySpace sites!)