by Stephen on January 27, 2009
It has been a long time coming, and for some, the wait continues, but for others the ability to link together Google Analytics and Google AdSense is no longer a dream!
Over the past few weeks Google has been allowing webmasters to link their AdSense account with their Analytics account. I have seen the notice [...]
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by Stephen on January 11, 2009
I have been doing a bit of blog reading today and thought I would share some of the articles I have been looking at.
32 Invaluable Sites for Web Design Ideas
I don’t think you can have enough sites in your boomarks to fall back on when you need inspiration for design ideas. There are hundreds of [...]
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by Stephen on December 22, 2008
Photo – allaboutgeorge
Yes that’s right, it’s all about accessibility. Accessibility is the new accessory for the web 2.0 era. This is now a critical factor in web design both on the level of aesthetics (virtual ergonomic functionality) and coding. But I hear you say isn’t accessibility a rather dull concern that stipulates functionality over form, [...]
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by Stephen on December 21, 2008
There are a lot of books about blogging around these days. Most of them will cover the same topics – which blogging platform best meets your requirements, the importance of defining your own voice and creating a style, finding a niche, attracting an audience, building a readership, staying up to date with online developments and [...]
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by Stephen on December 18, 2008
StumbleUpon! is one of my favourite websites.
It works by people voting and recommending websites they “stumble upon” by clicking on an icon on the StumbleUpon! toolbar. Newly Stumbled pages (rather than sites) will be given high priority and will be frequently delivered to StumbleUpon! users over a fairly short period of time.
To gauge the likability [...]
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by Stephen on December 18, 2008
.net magazine has published an interesting article about the legal issues web designers are likely to face during their career.
The article covers issues such as contracts, infringing patents, Trade Marks or other intellectual property. It also covers the legal issues around the Data Protection Act and the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act and has been [...]
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by Stephen on December 16, 2008
The CrunchBase Widget is a handy little tool to use on web pages containing articles or information about companies, people, financial organisations or products. The widgets can be used in singular fashion as in the examples below.
CrunchBase Company Widget
CrunchBase Information
Google
Information provided by CrunchBase
CrunchBase Person Widget
CrunchBase Information
Matt Mullenweg
Information provided by CrunchBase
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by Stephen on October 22, 2008
Darren Rowse made another excellent point in a recent post entitled “Feeling Overwhelmed by Social Media and Web 2.0? Here Are 5 Tips For You“. The idea for the article came when Darren noticed a fellow blogger had stopped blogging and received the following response when he asked him why he had given up:
“I can’t [...]
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