Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 91 views
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 ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008 337 views
One of the big benefits of using CSS-based design for a site is the fact that you can control the layout of printed pages.
Instead of users having to print out exactly what they see on screen, you can get rid of stuff like nav, sidebars and plug-ins from pages, enabling ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 101 views
Aaaarggggghhhhh - talk about a marriage made in hell.
Everything worked so perfectly (ok, maybe not quite) in IE on my current site but I appreciate the days of table based layouts are limited. Once upon a time, good old tables within tables within tables sprinkled with a few one-pixel gifs ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 328 views
After months of delays, the re-build of my website London for Free is finally underway.
I know it will be a struggle as I try to update my web skills, get my head around new technologies (AJAX, anyone?) and remind myself of "old" ones (literally dusting off my old PHP manuals).
I'm ...
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