There are a number of common mistakes that small and medium sized businesses make when they are developing their websites. Some of these errors are based on a lack of knowledge of what customers look for online, whilst others are based on a misconception of what comprises a good website.
1) They do it – lets do it too! A common error when commencing a business web design project is to start with the statement “this is what our competitors areRead More…
October 24th, 2009
September 9th, 2009
Developing a business website can be a challenging process even for experienced individuals. There are a number of factors that can prevent people from considering development a website, all of these can be overcome with the right blend of planning and research.
The top ten barriers preventing development are:
Time – even though it can feel difficult to take time out of working ‘in’ your business, unless you work ‘on’ your business you may not achieve the long-term success you want.Read More…
August 17th, 2009
Having built a number of sites in Wordpress I recently decided to take the plunge with Drupal in order to see how it stood up to the excellent Wordpress platform.
Expecting Drupal to be more advanced that Wordpress I was quite surprised to find that it wasn’t particularly straight forward to set up. I thought it would be worthwhile posting this guide to some of the key areas I had identified as either being confusing or not what I expected.
I haveRead More…
August 14th, 2009
Interesting to read that W3C the body who set web standards have decided to move back to HTML:
http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item119
August 14th, 2009
Sad to read that Microsoft is to support the Internet Explorer 6 browser until 2014. For those reading this who have had some involvement in web design you will know that this browser is far from popular amongst developers and designers due to the high number of well documented bugs it contains.
I am pleased to read that a group of developers has decided to form an action group:
http://www.ie6nomore.com/
Show your support people!
August 6th, 2009
If you are looking for a full-stack framework which includes a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5 then give Symfony a try.
Using their 24 days tutorial guide you can learn the fundamentals of the framework quickly:
http://www.symfony-project.org/jobeet/1_2/Doctrine/en/