Adobe's BrowserLab is every web designer's dream come true
Internet technology seems to advance at warp speed but if you're a web designer, the process of testing a website for cross-browser compatibility hasn't improved much since the days when knowledge of Microsoft FrontPage made someone a 'web designer'.
But a new service from Adobe looks set to change that.
Adobe CS4 is out - what's new?
Chances are that if you're a web designer or developer, you use one or more Adobe products.
Adobe's Creative Suite, which includes programs like Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver, is one of the most popular software suites known to web professionals because of this.
Opera - most HTML code isn't standards compliant
Last week, Opera released the results of a survey conducted using its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) search engine.
The engine, which currently indexes 3.5m web pages, is designed to track "how web pages are structured."
Web-based HTML and CSS validation tools
Are you validating your website's HTML/XHTML and CSS? If not, you should be.
How much change does your site really need?
In an online retail market expected to double in size to £78 billion by 2010* the potential rewards for e-commerce businesses are huge. Equally, so is the pressure to stay ahead of their competition.
The desire for online businesses to become bigger and better inevitably affects their approach to redesign. There’s a huge temptation to introduce the latest whiz bang functionality and super cool design which will appeal to a whole new generation of customers.
Save web pages forever with Iterasi
Iterasi is a browser-based bookmarking tool that can be used to capture a webpage in the state in which you see it and save it for later.
Unlike some other bookmarking tools, Iterasi doesn't just bookmark a link to the web page you saved, but saves a screenshot of the site in html format.
Five ways to speed up your website
There used to be an 'eight second rule' that predicted how long users would wait for a web page to load before abandoning their efforts and heading off into the sunset.
But this has since come down, with Jakob Nielsen telling E-consultancy recently that the reality is now closer to one second.
With increased connection speeds, users expect pages to load almost instantly and many will hit the back button if they feel they are being kept waiting.
Google points to VW.com over cloaking
Volkswagen's US marketing web team has made changes to the way its pages are constructed following an intervention from Google.
VW.com had been featured by Google's Enterprise blog last week for making search front and centre of a new design.
E-consultancy seeks Head of Website Development
E-consultancy has doubled in size over the past year, but with that has come new challenges - let's just say we have a hefty development to-do list.
With that in mind we're on the lookout for a world class Head of Website Development. Somebody with very strong technical / development skills, as well as an understanding of how our plans fit in with business and marketing goals.
More details after the jump...
Ways that highly-designed websites can still be accessible and search friendly
There continues to be a tension between web design that is “highly-designed” and web design that is accessible and search engine friendly. The former sites tend to be Flash only or rely heavily on DHTML.
So it is possible for a site to be beautiful but accessible?
Holiday shopping forecast 2009: a lot like 2008, with more coupons
The NLA explains why it is going after the news aggregators
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Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
