How we did it

So we went live as planned on Friday, on the date we decided back in December and only 2% over budget. This was the first phase of a major site refresh project, and I also believe we will go live with the second phase as planned in early October.

I see no reason why we won’t [...]

Don’t call me a project manager

I hate the term “project management” with a passion.

That might come as a surprise to those who know that I am currently “managing” a large and commercially important web project at work. And not as a surprise to those who know how much I hate bureaucracy and admin as a general rule.

But allow me to [...]

Moving and sharing

Many years ago, the best you could do to connect your site to another site was through adding links. Plain old hyperlinks to other web sites – the stuff that made the web the web.

And then things became a little fancier and you could host a form on your site to allow people to send [...]

A standard kind of code

If you want to get under the skin of most developers, just start talking to them about web standards.

Specifically the idea of them building client side code which complies with standards such as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2 (probably the two most commonly followed ones at the moment) and, dare I suggest, WCAG 1.0 (Accessibility).

Whereas [...]

A week in my web world

means dongles, London for Free, twitter, xobni and two new web books. Its been a busy web week.

I’ve been thinking for a while about getting a new phone so I can check out all the mobile apps available. But after posting about it on FaceBook, I realise the choice is staggering.

Now I really don’t need [...]

3 new social media friends

HTML5, microformats and next generation search – 3 things which you should probably become acquainted with this year if you work in the area of social media or web 2 development.

Why? Because they are crucial to driving forward their adoption.

Peter Kim recently did some research into Social Media Predictions for 2009 – here is his [...]

Its still about the content

A while ago, I bought one of those Creative VADO videocams. Really cool gadget, great for creating short clips and publishing them to the likes of YouTube for sharing.

If you have good content to film, of course. And that’s the problem with user-generated content. The web is filled with rubbish – videos of pets (like [...]

Playing with google optimiser

Last week I discovered Google Website Optimiser. It’s a great free service that allows you to perform some simple A/B and multivariate tests on a website. And it helped me to understand more about what these types of tests are, and how to set them up.

First, A/B Testing.

Put simply, A/B testing is where you test [...]