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.
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 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...
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?
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’?