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Quick, Cheap and Dirty Design Test

This is a very quick tip to check the design of your web site. It is a variation on the 5 second test and can be performed by anyone with a smartphone.

Graphic designers usually test their designs in monochrome to see if the essence of their…

Social Media Is

When people ask me, “How did you meet so and so?”, increasingly the answer is now, “via Twitter”. I know a lot of the people that I follow and met many of them on Twitter first. I have a kind of a mental list of twitter folks with whom I’ve broken bread.

Online Politeness — A Glimmer of Hope

There are lots of horrendous stories in the media each week at the moment of people suffering awful abuse on Twitter at the hands of trolls.

I’m a middle aged, middle class, white, educated guy. So the worst offences I tend to experience…

Make your next redesign your last

Many organisations get stuck in a 3–4 year cycle of tearing down their old web site, starting from scratch and then breathing a sigh of relief when the new one launches. They then walk away thinking, “Job done” and the site lies dormant waiting for a new chief executive…

Remarketing AdWords campaigns are a crude sledgehammer to crack a nut

You’ve probably noticed them. The same advertisement following you around the web, site after site after site. It gets a bit tiresome doesn’t it.

Containerization as a Metaphor to APIs. Great Video

I’m always banging on about APIs. If you’re wondering what an API actually is and what it’s benefits are then this film reveals all in such a great way. 6 minutes of your time well spent I’d say.

6 Great Uses For Google Alerts

Google Alerts is a great system that sends you an email you whenever a new page containing a word or phrase you have chosen to follow enters their search index.

You can create up to 1000 alerts on as many words and phrases as you like. You can also…