Category Archives: Web Development

How long before Google will see changes to my site?

Posted on July 9, 2010

People often assume that changes they make to their website will instantly be picked up by Google. This isn’t the case. It can take anything up to a few months before Google indexes new content on your site, although this … Continue reading →

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Maintaining search engine position after a web site redesign

Posted on July 7, 2010

You’ve worked hard to get high up in the search engine results for your targeted keywords, you’ve got inbound links to your website coming out of your ears and your customers have bookmarked pages on your site. And now you … Continue reading →

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Modernizr – get fine grained control over your CSS

Posted on July 3, 2010

Modern web browsers like Safari, Chrome and Firefox support some extremely useful parts of the CSS3 specification, that can remove a great deal of the pain of creating simple things like rounded corners, drop shadows, and gradients. However, the elephant … Continue reading →

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Website redesign complete (at last)…

Posted on July 3, 2010

After using the same design for 5 years, we’ve finally got round to redesigning our website. The old site served us very well, generated a nice steady stream of traffic through organic listings on Google and was well liked; but … Continue reading →

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Why HTTP Status codes are at the heart of SEO…

Posted on June 17, 2010

Anyone developing websites that have pretentions to generate long-term traffic, beyond the lifespan of any initial marketing activity, needs to know a little bit about Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) . It’s really not a difficult set of rules to follow; … Continue reading →

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Protecting against the risk of XSS attacks in user-generated content

Posted on June 17, 2010

Web 2.0 means different things according to who you speak to, but one ubiquitous part of the definition is User Created Content (UCC). UCC essentially means giving the tools to create html on your website to someone other than the … Continue reading →

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NetBeans helps web developers make better websites, more productively and less expensively

Posted on June 14, 2010

So you’ve probably heard of Dreamweaver and you might think it’s the best tool for producing websites, and in many respects it’s great. The multi-line search and replace is almost worth the price along. But if you’re doing serious coding … Continue reading →

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Flash 10.1 doesn’t help video playback…

Posted on June 11, 2010

Adobe have just released Flash 10.1 Player and I was hoping that it would include GPU acceleration, just like the Windows version. Why is this important? Next time you open up YouTube, LoveFilm, or the BBC iPlayer, take a look … Continue reading →

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Coping with the Seige mentality

Posted on December 28, 2009

Over the last few days I’ve started to think more carefully about performance optimization, from both the user’s and webserver’s point of view. A few tests using the rather excellent Siege showed huge drop offs in performance when serving quite … Continue reading →

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