How to work for yourself effectively.

Making the most of your time is very important when working for yourself. It's a great feeling to have complete freedom over your working day, but if you're not careful this feeling of freedom can leave you with a lack of purpose or direction. It's hard to stay motivated and…

Creating a Google Sitemap

When I first heard about Google sitemaps I have to admit, I was a little skeptical. I didn't see why we should have to make Google's life easier. Surely it's Google's job to index our site, not the web developers job to spoon feed it information! Infact if practically any…

The coolest thing you’ll probably see all day!!!

I thought this was very cool, and as it's vagely website related, thought I'd include it here :) Download it here

A web design dream come true

Wow! Here's an amazing video by Dr Shai Avidan and Dr Ariel Shamir to support their paper on 'Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing'. It's a few minutes long, but it's worth watching to the end - where they make people disappear! Ooh! To be able to seamlessly extend or…

Why you should not get a 15 year old to design your website

So many people these days claim to be able to make websites, long gone are the days where it was seen as some kind of clever, voodoo, dark magic. Programs like Dreamweaver and Frontpage have brought web design to the masses. No longer do small companies have to pay thousands…

Things every small business should consider before starting a website

Everyone wants a website these days, infact you could say that everyone 'needs' a website these days. It's become just about as important as business cards and a yellow pages listing were 15 years ago. But there are quite a few things to consider before thinking that a website will…

Top 5 Tips for Good User Interface Design

User interface design is critically important when designing good and useable websites. It's often something that's overlooked or taken for granted by the general public as they use a site, but the basic principles are often applied by designers almost without them realising. Good design more often than not goes…

An XHTML and CSS-based Form Template

I've always found it a little tricky to write truly valid forms, yet still keeping the layout looking anything half decent. I guess you can hack it around a bit and float div's left and right, but it somehow always seemed a rather long-winded way to go about things. So…

Nice and Free CSS Layout Templates

A little thin on the ground with regards to the graphical elements but at first glance looks like a useful wireframe layout guide for building validated CSS based sites. Check out the nice and free CSS layout templates available at mycelly.com

AJAX Gizmos and Scripts for your Site

If you want to pimp your site and make it look the business take a look at these great AJAX script resources. AJAX is a bit of a buzzword at the moment which I don't particularly agree with, especially as there are plenty of cool web2.0 effects which might be…

The End of the Internet

Well I finally did it! I read everything on the Internet, it took a very long time and many late nights, but I can happily say that I finally feel a sense of closure. Having digested all the billions of opinions, comments and down right nonsense out there. So here…

If Blog Comments were a Meeting

If you've ever read a blog or bulletin board online you'll know they are a great source of useful, insightful and interesting comments but you'll also know the majority are just complete rubbish posted by people who wouldn't normally speak their mind quite so bluntly. It's basically an excuse for…