Google x-rays Flash

July 2nd, 2008

On the subject of Google’s announcement on their new greater ability to index Flash, I decided to have a little (informative) rant on the company blog. As the subject is of relative importance within the web design world, I also wanted to feature it on Redswish but for the sake of repeating myself - I […]

Just Ignore Pagerank

May 29th, 2008

I used to be obsessed with Google Pagerank - constantly checking my sites to see if they’ve been upgraded, using SEO tools to analyse predicted future Pageranks and researching how long it had been since the last update and when we were due for the next.
But how reliable is Pagerank really? Please excuse my language […]

How Do You Judge a Website?

April 4th, 2008

Many people will disagree with me I’m sure, but I’ve always thought that web design is an art. Seriously, apart from the aesthetic design side - I also feel that the technical coding and functionality of websites, and the process of combining and integrating this into the design is an artistic process in itself.
Oh how […]

Interview on UK2.net

April 3rd, 2008

A few weeks back I was approached by a representative for UK-based hosting and domains company UK2 to do a short interview to appear on their blog. The idea was to create a series of interviews with UK web ‘professionals’ (I’ve used inverted commas because I don’t consider myself to be a web ‘professional’) that […]

Why I hate Flash sites

March 11th, 2008

When Flash came along…
Millions and millions of years ago, man created an invisible entity, a power to which the world would kneel down and worship and would change the lives of everyone forever. Some called it the ‘World Wide Web’, but by some it was known only as ‘The Internet’.
In it’s early days of life, […]

Is valid code really neccessary?

February 12th, 2008

I’m a big believer in semantic, valid mark-up. Both XHTML and CSS. And it’s fairly safe to say that every website I build now contains valid code, unless in the case of integrating a complex script which makes it extremely difficult to obtain the coveted W3C valid link at the bottom of the site.
There is […]

Microsoft Bidding for Yahoo

February 1st, 2008

News on the grapevine - Microsoft have officially entered a bid to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Firstly, that is a sickening amount of money. Secondly, this seems another attempt to monopolise another market.
I understand the computer world was Microsoft’s upbringing - it’s home territory. Over the past few years it’s managed to wrestle it’s […]