I knew there was something I had forgotten to do as the New Year rocked around – change the copyright end year in the footer of my site pages. Ugh, that’s a whole 60 seconds work that I have to do each year!

OK, so it’s not much; but do we really need to update the copyright year annually on our sites; especially if you’re a sole publisher/site owner? Here’s what I’ve researched. (more…)

This important milestone nearly slipped by me. December the 19th heralded a decade of CSS – Cascading Style Sheets. If you don’t use CSS at all on your web site; you’re missing out on a very useful technology that can save you a great deal of time in site development and maintenance. (more…)

Looking for free images or other resources such as sound, film or texts you can use on your web site without fear of infringing copyright? – think public domain. (more…)

When I started out on the web, buying stock photos and images was horribly expensive; sometimes up to a couple of hundred dollars for a single pic. Photo CD’s commonly sold for $500. Times have certainly changed and you can now pick up quality stock photos for as little as a couple of bucks. (more…)

You’d think with so many people using broadband now that page load times shouldn’t be an issue. Not so according to recent surveys of online shoppers which state that nearly all respondents complained that web sites load too slowly. It’s a particularly important point to be aware of with the holiday shopping season already under way for many. (more…)

Have you ever noticed in your stats or server logs an image from your site being requested thousands of times, when the page it’s displayed on is only requested a few dozen times? You may have fallen victim to hotlinking. (more…)

Ever wanted to display RSS content in a HTML web page? It’s very easy to do thanks to a nifty and free application! (more…)

If you’ve ever tried relaying a complex concept purely by phone or email; you’d well understand how challenging it can be.

Many online projects are delayed in being rolled out and sales lost because of simple misunderstandings and communications breakdowns. (more…)

Ever linked to a page on your site incorrectly, or have someone link to you incorrectly and only found out about it months later? Perhaps deleted a page and thought nothing more of it? (more…)

I’m not what you’d call a Jakob Nielsen fanboy by any means, but he’s recently published a very interesting article on participation inequality in online communities I thought I’d make mention of.

In the article he states that on average, online communities follow a 90-9-1 rule; being: (more…)