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How Wide Do You Want Your Website?
Sometimes when I'm working on a website, I'll be halfway through coding the interface when the client suddenly says something like “there's a gap between my site and the edge of the screen...
 
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How email works and how to get the most out of your email account
Email is probably the most useful thing ever invented. Or is that the wheel? Whatever, email is up there with fire, sliced bread and the electric guitar as one of mankind's greatest inventions. A...
 
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Reputation Pricing
Recent research has shown that your online reputation has serious monetary worth. Identical goods sold on ebay under different profiles achieved different prices, a profile of 2000 adding around 8%...
 
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Get Backed Up!
This week we've been talking to a company whose developers didn't get their backup strategy right, a hard disc on the server hosting their site failed, the web hosts didn't have a recent backup and...
 
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Why your company needs good design
We very often deal with companies that have badly designed websites, not the ones we've designed of course, the ones we are brought in to fix! Our entire experience of these companies comprises...
 
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Word Perhect Q & A
I've just been asked some questions by an MA student in Birmingham and I thought I would post the answers here. In general, how would you describe what you do? Designer? Programmer? Would you call...
 
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The Curse of Comic Sans
I mentioned the typeface "comic sans" in a recent post as an example of bad web design - a bad web designer will often use a lot of comic sans. Anyway, we did a bit of googling and found...
 
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50% of small businesses don't have websites?
According to this article from BBC News, unbelievably, 50% of small businesses in the UK don't have an online presence: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7096900.stm As a web designer I'm both...
 
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