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Category Archives: Web Dev & Design
What your grandfather can teach you about mobile web design
“Mobile will ultimately be the way we provision most of our services. You should literally put your best team to work on building mobile applications. The answer should be mobile FIRST.” ~ Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, Atmosphere talks. The … Continue reading
How does the new Apple MacBook Pro shape up for web designers?
A typical web designer using products such as Adobe Creative Suite loaded with Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator has to periodically, make key decisions relating to his design and development environment, including the flavor of OS and whether to develop on … Continue reading
Facebook Re-frames the Idea of a Website
People now spend more than 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook and any change to its core infrastructure, user interface or tool-set sends out warning signals into the web designer and developer communities often tasked with integrating the powerful … Continue reading
IE9 and CSS3: A Match Made in Heaven
In a remarkable turnaround partly fueled by the critical success of Windows 7, Microsoft has finally thrown itself 100% behind web standards encompassed by HTML 5 and CSS3. While Apple grabbed the headlines in 2010 by releasing the iconic iPad … Continue reading
20 Tips to Writing a Successful Blog
The world of blogging is becoming cluttered to say the least. How can you write a successful blog? And how do you stand out so your site can generate the required traffic? I’ve been thinking about this for a little … Continue reading
THE WONDERS OF JOOMLA! CMS
An open source content management system… Which does everything you could possibly want to do… in a really stylish way… and is really easy to use… and totally customisable… and has good SEO features… Sound too good to be true??? … Continue reading
Advantages of Ecommerce
The advantages of E-commerce are (nearly) endless. It has changed our society in a profound way, making it easy and simple to buy a massive variety of goods and services online. From Tesco shopping to bidding on that rare Pez … Continue reading
Shared hosting vs. Dedicated Hosting vs. Cloud Hosting
In the early stages of a growing IT department one of the biggest decisions managers face is whether to follow an on-premise or outsourced technology strategy. This is often a tough choice, which can have long-term implications for the company … Continue reading
Cloud Hosting: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
In recent years, there has been a blurring of distinction between the terms virtualisation and cloud computing. Virtualisation is actually not new; it was invented by IBM nearly 40 years ago and allows an IT department to split a single … Continue reading
Reseller Hosting – 4 Tips for Success!
1. Time = Money (lots and lots of it) The first thing you’ll learn about running your own web hosting company is that time = money and while this might be an old cliché it certainly rings true in this … Continue reading
