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 [...]

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 [...]

Becoming better web informed

Today I visited ecommerce expo in London. It was interesting, not only for the presentations on social media but also to see the number of snake oil vendors still operating in the marketplace.

You know, the types of guys who’ll sell you a custom website for £4k (5 pages only, and SEO advice extra, of course) [...]

London for free goes mobile

Well, since the relaunch a couple of months ago of the main London For Free site, this has been at the top of my list of phase 2 stuff to do. Then last month, there was an excellent article in .Net magazine, describing the basics of making your site mobile.

So finally today, I started creating [...]

Captcha the spammers

It was only a matter of time, I guess.

Recently I had started to receive spam emails through the web forms dotted around the new site. Thinking back with horror to the time a few years ago when I was receiving thousands of spam messages a day, I knew I had to do something to stop [...]

One week to launch

After two months, the site is now almost ready to go live. This weekend I’ve been applying the finishing touches to it.

All the content is now done apart from one page which I need to give a bit of thought to – the sitemap for visitors (not to be confused with the xml “sitemap” file [...]

Content times

The past few weeks have been a hard slog as I continue to review and re-write where needed, all the content on the site. To be precise, the textual info. But it certainly needed doing.

I’m just now wrapping up the Outdoors section.

One of my workmates suggested I write it for a certain persona ie. thinking [...]