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Posted on 27/01/2012 by Alex Eichner
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) was developed in 1990 and since then it has been altered countless times, allowing for the numerous changes and trends of the internet. Its function however, which is to place content on a web page, has always remained largely the same.
With the official introduction of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in 1996, website design was drastically changed. The burden of styling was lifted from the HTML page and placed into a separate style sheet file. Since then CSS has also undergone a myriad of changes. For more details on the history of CSS check out this W3 document.
For a while now, both designers and developers alike have been eagerly anticipating the arrival...
Posted on 26/01/2012 by Will Clevett
Not too long ago somebody mentioned ‘the birthday problem’ to me, which is something they’d read about in a book. For those of you not in the know, the birthday problem deals with the statistics of people having the same birthday and the increasing odds with an increased number of people. The shocking fact that brought the conversation up in the first place is that if you have a group of 23 people, the odds that two of them share a birthday are over 50 percent (50.7297234323985% if you want to be precise). This seems far too high at a first glance, so I thought I’d take a quick look at why this is the case.
Taking the problem at its simplest level it’s easiest...
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Posted on 23/01/2012 by Steven Gradidge
First, please let me state that by no means do I consider myself a usability expert. I have a very good understanding as to what works and what doesn’t on a site. This understanding coupled with my knowledge of Analytics, makes me more qualified than most to advise webmasters into improving on-site metrics.
KPI’s vary from one site to another and it’s interesting to discover why certain clients have come to define them. Some want email addresses. Some want white paper downloads. Some want registrations. All these are fairly standard on-page KPI’s I think you would agree but something is beginning to irk me and it’s something that every web user should feel...
Posted on 18/01/2012 by Daniel
It’s the 18th of January 2012, mark it down, for this is a day for the history books, this is a day where the people rise up against control, this is a day that the people say no to legislation being forced upon them against their will by a government and its representatives that they elected to serve them.
Today is a day of protest.
Will blogged a lovely little roundup of just what SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is and how it could destroy the internet as we know it before Christmas, but things have heated up a little since then.
Today, we see some of the internet’s biggest websites stand together to oppose not just SOPA, but its sister bill PIPA (Protect IP Act) from ever being...
Posted on 16/01/2012 by Sarah L Sharp
There is no question that good quality content drives the Internet; however when you are creating content for your business or website, it is important to remember that consumers are looking for information that solves a problem or question, not to be blasted with sales pitches.
There are many different ways to reap the rewards from using content such as blogs, video content, email newsletters, infographics, white papers and downloadable reports. In their own way, all of these types of content can provide information regarding the benefits of a particular product or service, while also creating credibility and authority surrounding a particular subject area.
Interestingly, it’s the...
