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‘Technology’ archive
10 criteria for selecting a CMS
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Posted in Technology on the 05-03-2009 | Comments Off
Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?
Our First AIR App
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Posted in Technology on the 13-02-2009 | 10 Comments
With Adobe AIR now up to 100 million downloads, being utilised by big name players such as the BBC and increasingly invading our desktop Headscape decided to give it a go.
Effective browser support
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Posted in Technology on the 05-01-2009 | 12 Comments
Browser support should focus on usability and accessibility rather than pixel perfect design. Sites should render in all browsers, but provide advanced features and aesthetics to those which can support it.
A dedicated follower of fashion
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Posted in Technology on the 15-10-2008 | 33 Comments
My name is Paul and I am an addict. I lust after anything new and shiny. But is that really wrong?
Choosing a hosting company
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Posted in Technology on the 05-09-2008 | 3 Comments
Hosting companies are a dime a dozen. They all offer very similar packages and all seem competitive on price. How then do you choose between them.
Fixed Footers without JavaScript
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Posted in Technology on the 04-09-2008 | 29 Comments
Ed Merritt (one of our very awfully clever designers at Headscape) has come up with a innovative little CSS technique I have encouraged him to share with you.
To Version Control or Not?
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Posted in Business strategy, Technology on the 18-08-2008 | 23 Comments
Version control can seem like a very daunting thing to incorporate into your work flow, but once it’s there you can be left wondering how you ever lived without it. Paul Stanton gives his thoughts and experiences on the subject.
Drobo and backing up
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Posted in Technology on the 14-08-2008 | 20 Comments
Since posting on twitter about my new Drobo, I have received a number of requests for a review of this backup and storage solution.
Too many content management systems
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Posted in Technology on the 08-08-2008 | 4 Comments
I know we live in a capitalist society. I know we are supposed to believe in choice. However, there are just too many damn content management systems. Another extract from the Website Owners Manual
Creating screencasts
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Posted in Technology on the 12-06-2008 | 9 Comments
Video is becoming an intrinsic part of the web and not just dumb ass videos on YouTube. Video can be used to show off products and provide online presentations. But how do you create a high quality screencast on a budget?
Fluid elastic design
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Posted in Design, Technology on the 23-05-2008 | 4 Comments
When it comes to planning the layout of your new website there are just three commonly used website layout structures to choose from: Fixed; Fluid & Elastic width layouts. None of these are perfect; each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Location aware
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Posted in Technology on the 19-05-2008 | 6 Comments
The web is full of exciting innovations at the moment. However, it is geocoding that personally excites me the most. In this post I explain what it is and why I believe it offers so much potential.
Question: Headscape tabs
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Posted in Accessibility, Technology on the 16-05-2008 | 10 Comments
David Bridle writes: How did you get the tabbed menu to work in the headscape website?
Friendly web addresses
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Posted in Technology, Usability on the 11-05-2008 | 21 Comments
When redesigning boagworld considerable time was spent formatting the sites’ web addresses. In this post I explain why so much time was taken and introduce you to the tools I used.
HTML snippets
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Posted in Technology on the 18-02-2008 | 9 Comments
If you are part of a web design team or skip constantly between projects, then you might want to consider an alternative approach to writing your HTML.
First impressions of leopard
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Posted in Technology on the 26-10-2007 | 17 Comments
I have to confess to being shocked today. I was under the impression that my group of online friends were all geeks. Apparently not! All I have heard today is “I am not going to upgrade to Leopard yet, I am going to wait until the bugs have been worked out”. In my world, geeks should embrace the new and throw caution to the wind. They maybe cowards but I am not… at 9:50 am today I kissed good-bye to sanity and hit the install button.
Super Whooper
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Posted in Technology on the 18-10-2007 | 2 Comments
I have seen a lot of Google maps mashups in my time but never one that tracks Merlin flying across the Atlantic.
PhotoSynth
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Posted in Technology on the 15-06-2007 | 9 Comments
Acquired by Microsoft Photosynth is truly amazing. Imagine being able to take every image of Notre Dame off of flickr and join them into a complete 3D model. Or what about being able to zoom in and out of gigabytes of photo data on the fly. Well they are already doing it…
d.construct: Full of questions
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Posted in Technology on the 06-09-2006 | Comments Off
This will probably be my last chance to post before I am off to d.construct. I have a manic day tomorrow trying to get everything sorted before I go, however I wanted to share with you a couple of thoughts about the upcoming conference.
Technology demographics
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Posted in Technology on the 09-08-2006 | 5 Comments
For a long time marketers have made use of various demographic scales to classify different types of people. Well now, thanks to research carried out at the University College London it is possible to classify people by their use of technology.