Does the Web Industry need an Accrediting Professional Body?
 

It still amazes me how low the quality of a large proportion of websites across the internet is. Indeed it pains me to see clients who have paid good money to an agency with a slick sales pitch but nothing behind it to back it up with. The worst thing? The client doesn't even realise they've been sold a lemon. Is it time for a well-funded national or international regulatory body to set the bar in our industry?

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July Website Redesign and Relaunch
 

Welcome to the new website! What's going on I hear you ask?

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PHP speaks Hebrew? Error T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
 

Around 10 years working in PHP and this is the first time I've ever had it speak to me in Hebrew...

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DOMPDF Error FIXED -  Frame not found in cellmap
 

Another quick post to help other PHP developers who might be running into this problem with DOMPDF...

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Nick Doody on the Digital Economy Bill
 

You may have heard a lot of talk on the UK Digital Economy Bill which is widely seen as impinging on internet freedom in the UK. Here's a satirical take on it...

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Photoshop blocks images of banknotes
 

Here's an interesting fact! Try pasting an image of a banknote into Photoshop...

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PHP gzread loop problem SOLVED!
 

Just been dealing with an annoying problem whereby reading a remote compressed .gz file with PHP would get stuck in a loop. I found a workaround...

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What is a website?
 

These days, most business owners would agree that having a website is a necessity. But when you have a website designed for your organisation, are you just going through the motions in order to "tick another thing of the list?" In my blog post today I wanted to pin the concept of website design up on the wall and actually ask the big question: "what is a website for?"

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Google faces anti-monopoly probe
 

Last week I speculated that Google could end up facing an anti-monopoly probe and today that's exactly what has been announced.

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Is Google becoming a dangerous Monopoly?
 

In September 2007, Microsoft was ordered to pay €497 million for abusing its dominant position in the market in line with competition laws. Could Google face similar issues itself in the future?

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Famous Logos changing over time
 

You would expect that the logo designs that you see and instinctively recognise every day must have been designed many moons ago and remained that way for years. But that's not always the case..

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HTML5 is coming…
 

There's been lots of talk in the blogosphere about HTML5 and the new features and facilities that it's bringing to the website design community. 

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IE6 hits headlines
 

I've just seen a ditch-IE6 campaign hit the front page of the BBC News website. Just had to get a quick blog post on this one!

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How much do you charge for web design?
 

"How much do you charge for web design?" A question that is usually one of the first that you will want to know the answer to if you're looking to have a website or web application built.

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ADSL24 C&W LLU ISP dropouts
 

We've all been there; dealing with an unusable service provider with no customer support. Here's a rant about ADSL24's C&W LLU service who I've been using for my internet connection!

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IE turning docx files into Zip files
 

I recently ran into a problem with Internet Explorer where .docx files that have been stored on a web server get converted to spurious Zip files when linked to. But there is a solution!

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