Category Archives: Web development

Another cracking site launched

We’ve just launched another site this week. Premier Sports Group provide sports coaching, sports holiday courses, kit and tours for schools and parents. Their new site has a fresh design and they’ve got full control over the content they put in thanks to Contented.

Time for a traditional post launch pint.

Can we wave goodbye to IE6 soon?

Apple have a service which (amongst other things) allows web-based access to emails, calendar and contacts. Yesterday, they announced that the service (previously called .mac) is being relaunched as mobile me.
37signals reports on something interesting about the relauch. Apple have stated that they won’t be supporting IE6. There’s speculation that a major player like Apple [...]

Flashblock’d 2

We’ve not used Flash image replacement in a big way yet, but I’m sure we will need to for some of the more design led sites that we will implement in the near future. I was alerted to the importance of using the right technique this morning when I visited this article about an unrelated [...]

Taleb : applied to web development

I know nothing more about Nassim Nicholas Taleb than what I read in the Sunday Times magazine this weekend : that is he’s trader, turned philosopher who makes bleak predictions on the global economy and the over efficient world we now live in.
Taleb has has a theory about Black Swans in life : things we [...]

PHP debugging with FireBug

We like Firebug the javascript/dom debugger for Firefox.
Now we can debug our PHP applications using Firebug thanks to the FirePHP library.

IE Development gets easier

Developing websites for Internet Explorer is not a fun task. Especially having to support the multitudes of different versions. Internally we use Multiple IE which tries to install IE 6 and older versions alongside the standard IE7 installation. It is a bit hit and miss and not very stable. My installation for example doesn’t let [...]

CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please

Google is great, it’s a fact.
Today they have launched an Ajax Library API. They are hosting the major Javascript Libraries (Jquery, dojo etc), and are providing a nice API to load them in, pick your version number etc.
They also serve it over a content delivery network, which means when a user requests the library file [...]

The Monkey is back…

Back in the day when the internet was full of geeks and Americans you could learn how to design “phat” websites using frames and tables, make animated gifs that inform your users that your site is under construction and even load in music to entertain your website visitors from a web site called Webmonkey.com.
It got [...]