Jan
6
It’s something that has become somewhat of a cliche around the water-cooler these days - and not just in the web industry, believe me! Web 2.0 has definitely gone down as one of the buzzwords of our century - yet some people still do not know what the whole ‘Web 2′ craze is all about. [...]
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Continue reading What is Web 2.0? An Introduction
Dec
25
In an industry where design is a key differentiator as well as the all-encompassing key to online legitimacy, you’d think companies, and big companies at that, would get re-designs/re-branding right, yes? Well, not exactly!
It’s not exactly today’s news, but I felt compelled to at least discuss this. Internet giant, PayPal, son of another Internet giant, [...]
Posted in Web Design
Continue reading Design mistakes 101: What happened to Paypal’s logo?
Dec
15
In what seems to be another ‘idea’ that Google hopes to sell as ‘changing the way people look for information online’, the California-based search giant is testing a “free tool” that they’re calling “knol”, which apparently stands for a unit of knowledge. Pardon the pun, but a bit grassy in my opinion!
Not only does [...]
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Continue reading Google knols best: Wikipedia killer or just seven years too late?
Dec
13
For most web designers/web developers, building a website comes naturally. You design it, code it, and launch it. Right? Wrong! The practice of building a website may have got justifiably shorter (or longer) depending on how you see things working online - but the theory/trick behind a good site build still stands: Planning, planning and [...]
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Continue reading How to build a website in six easy steps
Dec
6
Our good friend Google just keeps making our search experience richer, more fulfilling, and above all more and more accurate. In the joy of celebrating the holiday season with online goodies, Google loves to deliver applications such as Google Trends ‘fresh out the lab’ - the proverbial Lab that is; where Google seem to [...]
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Continue reading Google Trends: Search trends updated daily - What you need to know Part 1