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?
Welcome to the new website! What's going on I hear you ask?
Around 10 years working in PHP and this is the first time I've ever had it speak to me in Hebrew...
Another quick post to help other PHP developers who might be running into this problem with DOMPDF...
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...
Here's an interesting fact! Try pasting an image of a banknote into Photoshop...
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...
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?"
Last week I speculated that Google could end up facing an anti-monopoly probe and today that's exactly what has been announced.
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?
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..
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.
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!
"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.
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!
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!