01 June 2010
As has become tradition at Further, the design team decamped to London last week for the Future of Web Design conference held this year amongst the bankers in the City of London.
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27 May 2010
I noticed today that sometimes Google Adwords boxes are sometimes showing with a rather sickly green colour, rather than the usual yellow. I say yellow, but I'm sure there's a more accurate description of that colour. Cantaloupe, maybe. We'll just be clear and say, the usual #FFF8E7 colour.
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26 May 2010
In May 2010, Facebook was presented with somewhat of a backlash in regards to their latest default account settings. It seemed as if the whole of the privacy concerned internet shifted their intense focus from Google’s position on privacy to Facebook’s position. It would not be illogical to come to the conclusion that Facebook could be noticeably damaged by the backlash and the reaction of many users. But is that truly the case?
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26 May 2010
On May 5th Google’s new user interface (UI) was fully rolled out to all users – which means it’s time to take a look at how this affects the search world. Without going too much into the aesthetics of the new look lets look at what matters. It has been reported that the new 3 column layout with the address bar higher up the page has made a difference with click-through rates from search engine results pages (SERPs). Although this is likely to be affected by searchers checking out the new options.
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17 May 2010
Something we've been doing for a long time now is hiding .NET Viewstate from search engine crawlers. While .NET Viewstate is needed to maintain the state for users between postbacks, they can be absolutely massive and bloat out your source code.
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