Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
The 5 Things I’d Change on Cartier’s Website
I’m sorry to break the news to my family in this way, but I’ve fallen in love again. I feel giddy and young every time I look into the face of my new romance. Without further adieu let me introduce this marriage wrecker…the new Calibre de Cartier 1904 MC:
After seeing the watch advertised I had [...]
How can I find out who has visited my website?
Finding out which businesses have visited your website helps you to identify new sales opportunities, evaluate your marketing activity and gain valuable customer insights.
Reverse IP address lookup shows you who is visiting
When you connect to the internet your Internet Service Provider (ISP) assigns you with an IP address which is a set of four numbers [...]
Keeping an aging population online – DIADEM
Image: Tiago Rïbeiro
Despite all the revitalised hype surrounding HTML5, web accessibility is not such a hot topic at the moment. This is disappointing to those of us who see an open and accessible web as (at the risk of over egging it a bit) crucial to the future of mankind.
So when Dr Tony Elliman, coordinator [...]
How can I increase conversion rates on my Website?
A conversion on a website may include events such as submission of a contact form, a product purchase, downloading information or even visiting a specific page. This blog post will highlight how important conversion tracking is and how you can increase conversions on your website by using historical data.
Conversion rates are affected by many different [...]
Cool Brands, Lukewarm Websites?
Do these top brands’ websites reflect their top twenty status?
How do I get my company brand onto my customer’s desktop?
It is now feasible more than ever to create desktop-like applications for the web, prime examples being online word processors such as Google Docs and Zoho Writer. But there is a simultaneous trend in the opposite direction; it is now more feasible than ever to create highly specialized, richly graphical, and fully branded online experiences [...]
What is an Informational Cul-de-Sac?
Too many websites expect the user to read the content to the bottom of the page but then provide no further action.
A Cul-de-What?
Cul = slang for bum
De = of
Sac = bag
Therefore we can translate Cul-de-Sac to Bum of Bag (or bottom of bag). It’s a deadend. In town planning if a car drives into a [...]
Google OS – Online or Offline?
Nine months after the release of their web browser Google Chrome, Google have now announced they are entering the Operating System world with Google Chrome OS. A lot of people have been expecting or hoping for this for quite a while and as you have probably seen already, the hype-machine is already well and truly [...]
What makes a legal website good?
In preparing to speak to a number of marketing managers and directors from professional services firms (law firms, accountants and insolvency practitioners) I carried out an interesting piece of research into the homepages of the UK’s top 25 law firms.
I collected data on each site’s features and layout as well as scoring their design and [...]
How Does a Good Idea Become a Great User Experience?
You might be aware that last weekend marked the 25th anniversary of the creation of the puzzle video game Tetris. This event has given me cause to reminisce on my own experiences with the game.
I was bought a Nintendo Game Boy as a seven year old, and I played Tetris a lot in the years [...]
