2009

04

Sep

Plundering the internet: why good designers don’t steal

By Daniel Keegan

Short of using well-established (but widely hated) JavaScripts, completely protecting your content and or designs from plagiarism is impossible.

Browser plugins for developers were originally designed to aid designers and developers with runtime design debugging functionality, even helping iron our creases in varying browser standards. However, they also serve as a means for any tea leaf designer to inspect the minutiae of your design.

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2009

13

Aug

Image licences: painting a clear picture

By Daniel Keegan

High quality stock images are available at bargain rates from agencies, and there’s a huge variety to choose from. However, navigating round the different licence types can be somewhat confusing. It can be devastating to your business if someone finds you using their image outside the terms of its licence!

Making head or tail of each site’s terms & conditions is daunting even on a good day, so we’ve summarised the most typical and common here.

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2009

15

Jul

The case for outsourcing design and development

By Daniel Keegan

Out-of-the-box solutions offer the personal blogger or site news manager the kit they need to get a dynamic and active news site up and running in no time. There is currently a huge range of systems to choose from that provide a means to this end, and that are easy to rebrand and develop beyond the original installation. Read on…

2009

21

Mar

Best practice website navigation

By Dan Hawtrey

We were recently asked to review a website for usability. One of the key pieces the client wanted to look at was navigation. Surprisingly, there’s not a huge amount available on the web about this. Even Jakob Nielsen, the guru of website usability is pretty quiet on the subject. So we pulled together a few thoughts and rules of thumb when it comes to creating a good website navigation: Read on…

2007

01

Aug

How to make your intranet like Amazon.com

By Dan Hawtrey

Sites like Amazon use a range of techniques to show you personalised pages, content and recommendations. It’s possible to personalise intranets too, presenting different people in your organisation with the content that suits them best. What better way to save your staff time, while keeping them updated with the information they need most?

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2006

05

Sep

Nanny state

By Dan Hawtrey

We all remember the global furore early this year that followed the publication of the anti-islamic cartoons of Mohammed. The cartoons were orginally published in Denmark which led politicians there to trumpet the importance of freedom of speech as a fundamental building block of western society. Read on…