Just because things can animate does it mean they should!

I love flash, not!

Clunky and badly designed animation has flooded the web for as long as I can remember.  In the early days this phenomenon belonged to the animated gif files blinking furiously at you in an erratic attempt to attract your attention, while in comparison today’s web is littered with a mixture of gif, javascript and now flash animation. So this has made me wonder, is this animation simply a crude distraction that is degrading our web experience and masking the quality beneath, or is this what our aspiration for the web should be?

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A friendly warning for all those who maintain a WordPress site

Just a quick note to warn all those who maintain a stand-alone WordPress site that there is currently a worm making the most of the security weaknesses in previous versions of WordPress, the main advice is upgrade to 2.8.4 now and save yourself a lot of hassle later as this version is immune to the worm.

A more detailed overview of this security issue and other ways to stay secure can be found here – http://wordpress.org/development/2009/09/keep-wordpress-secure/

I can create a website for you!

Looking for work!

Are you a new business that is looking to create a web presence,  an existing business who wants to step out into the Internet or even just someone who feels the need to express themselves online – I can help you create the ideal platform for you!

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A beginner’s guide on how to create your first wordpress site

This is abit of a quick post but without knowing this I wouldn’t have been able to create my first Wordpress site so successfully.  If you have never used Wordpress before and you are fairly new to CSS then creating a site by this method can be difficult, hopefully this post will help.

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The dark side and Google

In the last ten years Google has moved from humble search engine to dominant web superpower and with no sign of easing up, but are they running the risk of becoming the new Microsoft which for the early part of this decade were hated.  Surely Google can’t move to the dark side and become the new un-stoppable machine?

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