June 10th, 2008
The rise of top-quality stat tracking software is a great thing for webmasters. Using websites like W3Counter, Google Analytics or self-hosted methods has become almost necessary for webmasters and I would be lying if I said that I hadn’t lost a large amount of time inside one of these scripts looking at what my users [...]
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June 9th, 2008
Ever since Internet Explorer 7 came out of the depths of Microsoft the browser has tried to distance itself from the basic attitude to browsing that same with the Operating System. The reason for such a shift was from the underdog that likes to make itself known as the underdog, Firefox!
Photo by Brett Taylor. (License: [...]
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June 8th, 2008
A few days ago Jason Powell from 37signals posted a piece titled “Why We Skip Photoshop“, only for it to be met by almost utter disbelief by other designers around the world.
To be honest I fell in love with the whole article. It is bold statements like this that have made their Blog Signal vs [...]
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June 5th, 2008
As someone who designs and develops websites for the Internet I have become involved in another field that’s more related to marketing than actually creating a website. This field is Search Engine Optimisation, a loose subset of Search Engine Marketing. For around five years I have worked towards standards-based development in my own free time [...]
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June 4th, 2008
I’m sure you’re all very aware that the powers of the Internet are shifting from sharing information to providing services. It’s a trend I noticed early on after trying out early versions of Housecall by Trend Micro for some of my anti-virus needs.
One of the ‘greatest’ services of the past couple of years is Social [...]
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June 3rd, 2008
Picture this: You’re fresh from graduation and you’re in a job earning money. Great! You’re very passionate about your work and landing this job is the start of a fantastic step in your life. However, you feel that you are being undervalued as an employee. Your daily tasks are typical of an entry job and [...]
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June 2nd, 2008
For the past couple of years I have been using Linux on and off for basic development and to get accustomed to Operating Systems other than Windows, something that anyone who is serious about development work should do.
Don’t get me wrong! Linux is a fantastic OS and the development that has gone into it is [...]
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