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Articles - 2012
Interactive Scotland 2012 round-up
13 Dec 2012
Last night's round-up of all things digital in 2012 from Interactive Scotland was very interesting. Gregor Smith from comScore kicked things off with a presentation packed full of stats and trends. The tablet revolution has… Read More
Do you need responsive design?
23 Nov 2012
The web world seems to be crazy for something called 'responsive design'. The Boston Globe website (pictured right) was one of the first sites that went 'responsive' and it's held up as a shining light. Try it… Read More
Is RSS dead or returned to life?
02 Oct 2012
A couple of years ago, aeons in web life I suppose, RSS was the hot new thing. A fantastic way to aggregate news content and read it from one place. So where is it now?… Read More
Symbols in marketing emails - good or bad?
19 Jul 2012
In our June Newsletter we featured an item about the technique of putting symbols in the the subject line of marketing emails to gain attention and therefore increase the 'open' statistics. The idea was that the… Read More
Replacing Flash animation with HTML5 video
03 Jul 2012
HTML5 and CSS3 is a watershed in web functionality and presentation. It's a quantum leap from XHTML and CSS2 in terms of what developers can now do on a web page, assuming a recent version… Read More
Google indexing hidden pages
13 Jun 2012
Not that long ago, it used to take a bit of work and time to get indexed by Google. Not anymore, it seems. Like many web development companies, we use a development server to build our… Read More
Careful with those mime types, Citrix!
18 May 2012
Now here's a little story that may interest web developers out there. It's to do with that old favourite - MIME types. MIME types originally were used to define the format of email messages and attachments,… Read More
Web fonts fun
19 Apr 2012
We've written before about the emerging abilities to have an increased number of fonts available for websites instead of the staple 9 'web safe' fonts. Our article back in May 2010 introduced the @font-face declaration from… Read More
Blot CFPwinMan integration gives companies single point of control
31 Mar 2012
We've just completed development of the Blot property CFPwinMan integration module, which allows CFPwinMan property management customers to automatically upload available properties from their CFPwinMan system to their company website. It's just been installed at one of… Read More
Cookie Law deadline approaches
31 Mar 2012
It's almost a year since the EU Cookie Law was introduced. It requires website owners to get an 'opt-in' approval from their visitors if the website uses 'cookies'. The regulators (Information Commissioners Office in the UK) have… Read More
Does Google forget my site if it is down?
23 Mar 2012
This month we had a new client whose website, for various business reasons, had been allowed to lapse. It wasn't hosted and hadn't been for around 3 months, so wasn't viewable on the Internet and… Read More
Moneybookers - a little courtesy, please
19 Mar 2012
We've got a few customers who use Moneybookers/Skrill - an ecommerce payment system similar to PayPal which can provide eWallet and merchant account services for taking payments online. In our experience it's a good system that… Read More
Is web hosting harming business?
10 Mar 2012
We've just changed a client's web hosting to a new hosting platform. The client contacted us and explained that they had hosting with a very well known UK hosting provider but the response times they… Read More
dlvr.it - feeding your social media
17 Feb 2012
At the recent Edinburgh meeting of New Media Breakfast (come along, it's good), Gordon White of Fat Buzz mentioned a great little tool called dlvr.it. It's a major timesaving facility that automatically logs updates to your… Read More
These ads keep following me!
30 Jan 2012
Recently we've had more than a few colleagues and clients comment on the same adverts popping up on the various sites they visit. It's as if these ads are 'following them around'. The visited sites didn't… Read More
