SOPA will break the internet! It really is not the solution to stop pirated content from being distributed around the internet. The entertainment industry do have plenty laws that can stop access to illegal content. SOPA will most certainly create more issues than fix any. The freedom and innovation that the internet gives us will be taken away, severely restricting our online progress. Read more
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Why not to use Facebook Pages
Posted on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 in Web News
This is not a post against Facebook pages but more about making a careful decision to use them. The benefits of using a Facebook page is obvious which might be why we are all so quick to jump on board but we should question why we should not use them.
Are Facebook pages replacing web sites
I have seen this popping up all over the place. “Are Facebook pages replacing web sites?” I definitely don’t think Facebook pages could or ever replace a web site. Read more
FireFox 4 Review
Posted on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 in Web NewsHere is a what I think of the FireFox 4. Starting from installation, I checked for a FireFox updated and then downloaded FF4. This installed quickly and the browser restarted ready to go with the long awaited new features to enhance your web surfing.
IE9 Review
Posted on Sunday, March 6th, 2011 in Web NewsThis is a quick review of IE9 and what I think of it.
Firstly downloading and installing IE9 is a bit of a pain, takes a little long and then I have to restart my computer!! It’s just a web browser!
Clearly they have changed there HTML and CSS standards again! Because I checked some of my sites and they don’t really render properly. Again different to IE 8 AND IE 7.
From a web design and development point of view this is an issue because you have to apply different code to a site to make it work for each version! There are hardly any issues like this for FireFox, Chrome or Opera. So booo to IE AGAIN from all the web designers!!!
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Rich Snippets
Posted on Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 in Web News
Google now provides special Rich Snippet HTML tags. These tags can be used to better structure your data on the web page so that search engines can make better sense of your data and provide better search results. Firstly these tags do not affect the way your web page will look. There aim is to make your web page content more accessible to the Search Engine spiders. For instance on a review website each part of the reviews will be labelled like the title, rating and content. Then if a person is searching for reviews on pizza restaurants it could bring up review information on that restaurant in the search results.
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New Adventures in Web Design
Posted on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 in Web News
The New Adventures in Web Design Conference will certainly be worthwhile attending because many highly respected innovators of the web will be there sharing their ideas for the future of the web. It will be featuring Andy Clarke , Brendan Dawes, Veerle Pieters, Mark Boulton, Dan Rubin, Elliot Jay Stocks, Jon Tan, Sarah Parmenter, Tim Van Damme and Greg Wood. Not only will it be featuring these great minds but what makes it even more irresistible is the price, at only £80 for the early birds.
This event will be for front-end developers and mostly web designers as it is “organised by designers for designers”. They will discuss how to combat existing and new hurdles in the world of web design. You should expect some brilliant ideas and well thought out opinions from the speakers.
The conference is in Nottingham, England on the 20th of January 2011.
For more details about this conference go to http://newadventuresconf.com/ and you can follow them on twitter @NACONF
Time Wasting web sites
Posted on Saturday, June 12th, 2010 in Web NewsWhen you get bored or want to kill some time then you need some time wasting entertainment. These websites below certainly fit the bill and should comfortable cover an hour or so.
Flight of the Hamsters
This is a simple, funny and addictive game to pass the time with. A hamster is launched in the air by his hamster friends and you use a pillow to hit it with. Then the objective is to keep it in the air using items you find along the way to cover as much distance as possible. You get a few hamsters to launch and you total distance is your score. Play flight of the hamsters.
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