Posted: Thursday, 2nd May, 2013
The Web Design industry never stands still. Both the way we view and design websites has continuously evolved since I was first introduced to HTML, the language web pages are written in, back in 1995. During most of this time we’ve been designing websites for typical desktop and laptop computers. It was the era of the ‘beige [...]
Posted: Tuesday, 19th March, 2013
A sneak preview of a forthcoming WordPress Admin Panel has been doing the online circuits recently. Looks very sleek – something for all our WordPress clients to look forward to. (Click to enlarge)
Posted: Thursday, 27th September, 2012
The new iPhone 5 Last week saw the release of the new iPhone 5 and alongside it, a new version of the Apple operating system for its mobile devices, iOS6. The latest version of iPhone is faster and noticeably lighter in the hand. The screen is more vivid and taller (but with no change to [...]
Posted: Tuesday, 29th May, 2012
The new version of Windows, destined to arrive this Christmas has been causing further concern to users who’ve tried it out. A consumer preview version was made available at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/consumer-preview. Microsoft have designed a new version of Windows which will run on both touchscreen devices and traditional desktop computers. This time, there are big changes [...]
Posted: Tuesday, 1st May, 2012
On the 25th May 2012 it becomes illegal in Europe for any website owner to ‘set a cookie’ without the PRIOR explicit permission of the visitor. When a user first visits a website that uses cookies they will need to agree to accept the cookies (if they wish to use the site). Read further information from [...]
Posted: Tuesday, 6th March, 2012
Unsurprisingly Windows Mobile phones haven’t exactly taken off with a bang, no doubt because of their atrocious track record (yes, Microsoft, we don’t forget that quickly – see this old blog post from 2009). But Windows 8 is firmly on it’s way, with a consumer preview recently available for download. And it’s raising many concerns…
Posted: Tuesday, 21st February, 2012
Pads are continuing to march upon our homes although not at the speed I first anticipated. The iPad is still regarded as an expensive toy by many. Certainly £400 is a considerable expense but it wasn’t long ago that spending over £800 on a desktop or laptop computer wasn’t an issue. The ‘new iPad’ is [...]
Posted: Thursday, 12th January, 2012
Norfolk has secured a significant amount of funding from the Government to install the infrastructure required to improve broadband speeds and access across Norfolk. The Norfolk County Council now need to attract competitive bids from telecom providers to install the actual infrastructure, but before they do they need individuals and businesses in Norfolk to register their interest so [...]
Posted: Thursday, 6th October, 2011
It was sad, but not surprising to learn of Steve Jobs’ death today. He had been ill for a long time and his physical appearance on stage didn’t hide this. But his life should be celebrated as a great example of vision. innovation and love for life. No ‘Apple fanboy’ I’m certainly not an Apple fanboy but have much admiration for all [...]
Posted: Tuesday, 6th September, 2011
Back in time… Back in 1997, we designed websites for Internet Explorer 3, setting page widths to match the smaller 800 x 600 screen resolution popular at that time (resulting in narrow websites compared with today). We restricted ourselves to 216 colours which were considered as “web safe” (reliable on both a Windows PC and [...]
