Category Archives: development

Amazingly Useful Link of the Day #2

You wait for a useful link for ages and then two come along at once… This was linked to by the BBC Technology website so not exactly a scoop, but very useful research and very much free: 2009 Ecommerce Usability for High Street Retailers

Amazingly Useful Link of the Day #1

Currently scoping out a Content Management System at work and was sent the attached by the SEO specialists employed by the client to optimise their site. A very useful list indeed: How To Choose Content Management Systems For SEO Blogged so I don’t lose it!

Google: Developers Hero

Interesting story on The Register today: Microsoft howls as Google turns IE into Chrome This is some good lateral thinking on Google’s behalf! How many hours have web developers spent in trying to hack their code to present a comparable user experience to IE users? By creating a browser plugin that uses the IE browser as 

Usability Goldmine

I could fill this blog talking about all the great stuff that Smashing Magazine. Suggest you go and bookmark if you haven’t already. Today’s article on 10 Useful Usability Findings provides some fascinating insight. A lot of it is common sense. The ‘Quality Of Design Is An Indicator Of Credibility’ part is something I touched on yesterday 

CSS3 – Still a Long Way Off

Been reading a lot on the design blogs about CSS3 and how it’ll make certain things easier to acheive once it’s been implemented across all browsers. One specific example on element transparency showed how, using CSS3, you could eradicate specific IE workarounds from your stylesheet. Or to put it another way - write standard code and