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Web-based HTML and CSS validation tools

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:45:00 UT

Are you validating your website's HTML/XHTML and CSS? If not, you should be.

How much change does your site really need?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:45:00 UT

In an online retail market expected to double in size to �78 billion by 2010* the potential rewards for e-commerce businesses are huge. Equally, so is the pressure to stay ahead of their competition.�

The desire for online businesses to become bigger and better inevitably affects their approach to redesign. There�s a huge temptation to introduce the latest whiz bang functionality and super cool design which will appeal to a whole new generation of customers.

Save web pages forever with Iterasi

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:05:00 UT

Iterasi is a browser-based bookmarking tool that can be used to capture a webpage in the state in which you see it and save it for later.

Unlike some other bookmarking tools, Iterasi doesn't just bookmark a link to the web page you saved, but saves a screenshot of the site in html format.

Five ways to speed up your website

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:30:00 UT

There used to be an 'eight second rule'�that�predicted how long�users would wait for a web page to load before abandoning their efforts and heading off into the sunset.

But this�has since come down, with Jakob Nielsen telling E-consultancy recently that the reality is now closer to one second.

With increased connection speeds, users expect pages to load almost instantly and many will�hit the back button if they feel they are being kept waiting.

Google points to VW.com over cloaking

Tue, 8 May 2007 09:11:00 UT

Volkswagen's US marketing web team has made changes to the way its pages are constructed following an intervention from Google.

VW.com had been featured by Google's Enterprise blog last week for making search front and centre of a new design.

E-consultancy seeks Head of Website Development

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:47:00 UT

E-consultancy has doubled in size over the past year, but with that has come new challenges - let's just say we have a hefty development to-do list.

With that in mind we're on the lookout for a world class Head of Website Development. Somebody with very strong technical / development skills, as well as an understanding of how our plans fit in with business and marketing goals.

More details after the jump...

Ways that highly-designed websites can still be accessible and search friendly

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:40:00 UT

There continues to be a tension between web design that is �highly-designed� and web design that is accessible and search engine friendly. The former sites tend to be Flash only or rely heavily on DHTML.

So it is possible for a site to be beautiful but accessible?

Is Fjax the best use of Flash ever?

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:16:00 UT

When the big tech brands like Amazon start using Ajax to improve their user interface you know the tipping point has been reached. So how long will it be before the great and good embrace Fjax, aka �Ajax 2.0�?