Internet trends

The slow demise of Internet Explorer 6
Fantastic News. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is nearly dead! The bane of developers lives for much of the last decade, and a major security hole, IE6 has consistently been in …


What kind of website are you??
It sounds a bit of a strange question but users expect different things from different websites. If you’re a blog then people need to feel like they have landed on a …


Fancy 300Mbps broadband speeds?
As part of it’s roll-out plans to have fibre broadband available to two-thirds of UK premises by 2015 using Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC), BT is trialling a service called …


The cloud is your friend. Silver linings guaranteed.
Great blog post by client Emma Roberts of White Horse Employment here on the Online Recruiter Blog about having a sensible IT Strategy that makes full use of existing services. …


Mobile’s interminable rise
After the sad passing of Steve Jobs today I was prompted to take a quick look at the web analytics of a client. We’d been discussing whether the mobile edition …


Latest web browser stats – Sept 2011
The latest browser stats to September 2011, show that the decline in IE market share (41.66%) stalled this month, with only a very small decrease. Have they now finally released …


The web going Horizontal?
After years of web designs and trying not to make web users scroll horizontally, it seems that the BBC is turning that convention, through 90 degrees. Check out the new …


‘Challenging’ typography can enhance learning
A really interesting article from BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme yesterday (13 01 2011 for which we can’t really find anything on the internet to point to!!) – in essence, …


Google Continues Efforts to Kill Off Internet Explorer 6
Web designers around the world will be rejoicing that Google is taking a lead in banishing the deeply unloved Internet Explorer 6 to the annals. Those not familiar with web …


Google Buzz – a powerful new move from the search giants
Google Buzz is possibly the most long overdue movement from Google that one could imagine. People (myself included) spend a good deal of their time sitting looking email… increasingly more …




