Archive for the ‘Website standards’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
I have been amazed recently at the amount of people still using Internet Explorer version 6. Late last year I was delivering training programmes and out of 3 training locations, 2 were still using IE6 on some computers. This is madness, it went out with the ark, well not ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Ever wondered where spammers get your email address so they can send in those wonderful emails about enlarging parts of you body that you dont have or trying to flog pills or watches, well chances are they took it off your own website. Using a programme, spammers can scrape email addresses ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
A lot of our clients have been calling and emailing us recently after being approached by web marketing companies offering them the world at a reasonable cost. Offers include getting you to a number one position in Google - guaranteed. Google AdWords set up and management, again promising the earth at a ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
In the week where the battle for D4hotels.com reached the courts its worth a pause to see if in fact you do own your own domain. In the Fáilte Ireland WebCheck scheme all five service providers are finding this a potential issue, especially for .com domains - as many as ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Moved to Days Inn Dublin this week - just worked out if I avoided three long car commutes I saved the planet and found the extra hours I needed to keep up. Plus taking the train gave me an extra hour on 3g which is not half bad on the ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Update! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.htmlThe launch of Google's latest product has been very low key so far.Tomorrow they will launch the beta version of their browser.It's called 'chrome'. It will be interesting to see whether it willpersuade any IE users to switch.Personally , I love the latest firefox so i doubt i'll be ditching ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Thanks to the two people who spotted some broken links on an article linked to the GiftGallery. It often happens when you are at your busiest the simple stuff gets missed and it set me to thinking about the tools we use every day to check stuff, in addition to ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Marketing speak just does not work on the web. Superlatives are filtered by our scanning style of reading and can obscure the main message. But the web does encourage people to say more, and perhaps less carefully in print and perhaps to make commitments they cannot keep. However the web also ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
That time of year again. The Irish Internet Association (IIA) conference is tomorrow. Theme is social networking, should be standards in the web industry which are appalling, not just in Ireland but most places. Will be worth the trip to the big smoke (Dublin - small smoke is Tullamore where ...
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