Going back to my previous post about switching to Apple or not, I came across another fellow blogger/web designer who has just made the switch.
In his post he lists his thoughts and experiences in his first month of switching to a Macbook from a PC.
It’s a very interesting read and it even makes me want [...]

A nice article on the BBC’s website explains accessibility and what problems people have with non-accessible websites.
A blind person who works for the BBC was set the task of buying a book from Amazon, and her experience was very interesting.
Accessibility is a big thing, and we need to be thinking of this at the initial [...]

I’m an avid reader of the Sitepoint newsletters and I have been for a while now. The latest “Sitepoint Tribune” has some interesting links to SEO tools on the internet.
One I especially liked was We Build Pages Cool SEO Tool. It lets you put in your website address, followed by a keyword or phrase and [...]

An interesting post caught my eye this morning on TechCrunch. It states that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all agreed to use the same sitemaps protocol when indexing websites. This is great news because it makes it easier and possibly quicker to get your websites indexed in a standard way in 3 of the major [...]

I don’t know about you, but since my blog started getting more popular, the amount of spam comments I’ve received has been unbelievable.
Introducing Akismet
Akismet is a plugin bundled with a standard Wordpress install. If you haven’t installed the plugin yet and got your free Akismet API key then I highly recommend you do.
Since I set [...]

A news article posted by the BBC today states that if a website takes longer than 4 seconds to load, shoppers will abandon it and move on.
A survey conducted by Akamai revealed that 75% of users questioned would not return to a website if it took longer than 4 seconds to load. This was half [...]

You’ve probably heard this already but if not, Firefox version 2 is now available.
They have jazzed up the website to go with the new release too, looks nice.
The new theme looks nice, and there are some nice new features like when you click on the RSS feed icon in your address bar, it lists the [...]

It seems our friends over at the Googleplex have been busy again. You can now setup your own search engine index. You add specific websites so the engine only searches those sites.
At first look it sounds like an excellent idea, letting you create a very unique niche search engine. To monetise the search you can [...]

For those of you that don’t have Photoshop for whatever reason, there is an excellent free alternative (if you have a pc running Windows that is).
I have not tried this yet, but the reviews are surfacing and it’s getting the thumbs up from a few people.

Accessibility and DDA online compliance
One of the websites I look after is in the public sector. Now, I wasn’t aware of the DDA online compliance law (in the UK anyway) that states that ALL public body websites should meet level A of the guidelines and level AA on as many pages as possible. So, guess [...]