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03 June 2011

Dispelling The Misinformation, And Addressing UK Cookie Law Proactively

 The recent implementation of changes to EU directives into UK law has been the subject of continued debate, panic and uncertainty. Those of us who must understand and implement the particulars of these new regulations into client websites have been feverishly researching what needs to be done, and peeling away the layers of speculation and fear mongering to find out exactly what it means for your website.

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07 December 2010

Planning Ahead For Social Shopping

Aside from having an interest in search engines that borders on unhealthy, I'm a practised layman in social science with books like Freakomics, Quirkology and Tipping Point absolutely fascinating me. It's pretty fortunate for me as, in relation to e-commerce the world of SEO and social are coming close enough to be compressed into one, terrifying(?) marketing singularity.

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27 September 2010

Optimising Your Pages With YSlow And PageSpeed

There’s simply no debate when it comes to the speed and efficiency of web pages. Faster is better. We’re almost all guilty of relying on the increasing speeds of broadband, and increasing power of computers to take up the slack in our coding practices. Computers and Internet connections have been more than happy to take up this challenge, but the ever-evolving practice of Search Engine Optimisation has taken an interest in the performance of our pages. In fact, the speed at which your pages load is now a deciding ranking factor within search engine algorithms.

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05 July 2010

HTML basics: Marking Up A Form

As with all front-end development, the most important thing to consider when marking up a form is to have a good, prior understanding of all of the relevant HTML elements you have at your disposal. This not only allows you to semantically describe the form in the best possible manner for accessibility and usability reasons, but also gives you a plethora of hooks upon which to hang your CSS to make the final thing look good.

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19 January 2010

Using seasonal search trends to boost your SEO

We all know that throughout the year keyword search volumes will go up and down. This is all perfectly normal and in most cases perfectly logical. A number of factors influence these trends and they vary from sector to sector. Planning for these seasonal trends is worth bearing in mind with regards to your search strategy.

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23 November 2009

Development Mistakes That Affect SEO

Here is a small array of developer mistakes which could have big complications to your site’s performance in the search engines. Web design and development companies all work in different ways with some having more or less SEO knowledge than others. And some simply make a lot of mistakes. Below is a guide of some of the ways your site can be affected from these errors.

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15 October 2009

Design blogs for inspiration and information

As we are a caring and sharing bunch in the design team at Further, we thought we would take this opportunity to serve up a taste of our favourite blogs and online resources for your delectation.

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21 June 2009

FOWA Conference Review, Cambridge

I had been looking forward to FOWA – The Future of Web Apps conference for some time. Having attended the FOWD – Future of Web Design conference in London last year, I had high expectations that only a highly technical conference could satisfy due to the FOWD being aimed primarily at designers so 90% of content was about user interface and usability.

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