Google have just further opened up their resources to developers with the introduction of Google Application Engine. Essentially it’s a web application hosting environment built upon Google’s network so it’s robust, distributed and scalable. If you’re familiar with Amazon’s S3, EC2 and SimpleDB, this is Google’s offering.
However, Google have gone further than Amazon and other [...]
This weeks (yes, I know it’s been a few weeks) free software is an online survey tool that enables you to collect opinions on what people think about your web site.
It’s very easy to implement, it’s very easy for the visitor to use, it’s free and it’ll provide you with invaluable feedback that can make [...]
Okay, this is a bit of a case of the pot calling the kettle black, as I often post quickly to this blog and don’t check spellings and grammar as thoroughly as I should. But for me, this blog is an experiment. It’s my blog, it reflects on me and me alone and I take [...]
Web analytics is a complex business and depending on how you measure traffic, you can come up with some wildly differing results. Like any kind of statistics, the raw information that you are provided with is largely neutral, it’s what you extrapolate from the data that matters.
Forget About The Home Page
I’ve recently been analysing traffic [...]
Let me explain.
Internet Explorer (particularly IE6) is accused of holding back the web. When it was launched in 2001, it was was very advanced and the number of web designers created standards based web sites was negligible so it’s lack of standards compliance wasn’t such an issue.
Since then though, other browsers have raced ahead [...]
Safari 3 has recently become a first class citizen in the world of WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors. Until recently, the majority of Rich Text Editors didn’t support Safari so if you were using a content management system or blogging software to edit your content online then Safari would usually default to a plain old text [...]
