Technology Archive
Question: Headscape tabs
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May 16, 2008 9:00 AM
David Bridle writes: How did you get the tabbed menu to work in the headscape website?
Friendly web addresses
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May 11, 2008 5:17 PM
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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February 18, 2008 11:42 AM
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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October 26, 2007 7:50 PM
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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October 18, 2007 3:53 PM
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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June 15, 2007 6:41 PM
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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September 6, 2006 4:51 PM
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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August 9, 2006 9:15 AM
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.
Styled images with caption
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July 29, 2006 12:27 PM
Here is an interesting problem that keeps cropping up. How do you balance the need for easy update by web editors with the desire to make a site as visually appealing as possible? Take for example the images that website owners inevitably want to add to their site via a content management system.
Add your search engine to the browser
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July 20, 2006 3:00 PM
There is a great new feature in both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2, which will allow you to integrate your site search directly into the browser.
Why IE doesn't play nicely
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July 13, 2006 7:32 PM
As all web designers know, Internet Explorer is the thorn in our collective flesh. Even with the dramatic improvements in IE7, it still finds ways to annoy. However, the nice chaps at Microsoft have gone some way to soothing our fevered brows.
Podcast 41: Building better forms
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June 30, 2006 10:10 AM
This week on boagworld Paul and Marcus discuss how to create better forms and how to avoid damaging your search engine rankings when launching a site redesign.
atMedia: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps
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June 15, 2006 5:07 PM
I can't say I was very excited about this session. However Jeffrey Veen is an excellent speaker. He is engaging, really knows his stuff and has a unique perspective that I warmed too.
atMedia: IE7 and beyond
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June 15, 2006 1:43 PM
Chris Wilson, the lead developer on IE 7 shares some of his thoughts on the upcoming release of Internet Explorer.
Paying the price of tables
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May 18, 2006 6:04 PM
Barely a week goes by that I fail to rant about why we should banish table based design and yet here I sit struggling because I failed to heed my own advice.
Strip that design, get naked.
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April 4, 2006 6:36 PM
No, the site hasn't screwed up. It's meant to look like this. Never one to miss the opportunity to jump on the nearest bandwagon, I am going naked for the day!
Copy and paste for the web
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March 8, 2006 10:49 AM
One of the developers at Microsoft has released a proof of concept for something called "live clipboard". This system allows end users to pass data back and forth between websites and even between a website and you're desktop. Struggling to see the potential? Then read on.
External Links and new windows
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January 31, 2006 5:37 PM
Not long ago I shared some advice on handling links within your web pages. Today I want to cover linking to external sites. However, be warned, this is not a normal boagworld.com post... it contains code!
Semantic code: What? Why? How?
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November 29, 2005 9:08 PM
Web designers like to throw around a lot of jargon that can prove very confusing for those who have to work with them. With that in mind, over the coming weeks, I want to focus on the more popular techno babble and try to dispel some of the mystery. First up: semantic code.
Who cares about technology?
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November 3, 2005 10:13 PM
Are you excited by terms like web 2.0, AJAX or RSS? Do you drool over a nice piece of semantic markup? Or are you a web site owner who faces developers baffling you with techno babble? Should you care about technology? Hell no, your users certainly don't.
Web standards explained
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November 2, 2005 10:31 PM
Today I have once again been working on the new Headscape site (yes, one day it will be finished I promise). One of things I did was write a brief introduction to web standards and I thought you might want to see what I have written.
Add Google maps to your site
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July 18, 2005 5:34 PM
I am sure that by now you have all seen the new Google Maps feature. Some of you may already be linking to it from your address information on your site. However, what is exciting is that Google allow you to embed these maps directly into your site.
Are we in danger of over engineering?
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June 22, 2005 8:09 AM
Web standards, CSS, XHTML, Microformats, WAI, semantic code, code validation, XML, eGIF, DOM, AJAX... is it just me or is web design getting a lot more complicated these days? Admittedly all of the above are very exciting developments and crucial for the future evolution of the web but I have to ask myself, are we in danger of over engineering things?
Speeding up the web development process
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June 20, 2005 8:25 AM
I am currently working with our lead developer at Headscape to streamline the process of building and deploying content managed web sites. Part of this process revolves around seperating out the different aspects of a sites development to make it easier for multiple people to work on the site at the same time and to standardise some elements which had previously been bespoke to individual projects.
Validation: What? Why? How?
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June 17, 2005 7:46 AM
Whether you are building your organisations web site yourself or you are using a team of web designers to do it for you it is important that the web pages which are built validate. But what is validation? Why is it important and how do you check for it?
Web Applications
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June 15, 2005 8:31 AM
Have you seen some of the fascinating new tools coming out of Google recently? Applications such as Google Maps and Google Suggest are the highest profile examples of a growing trend towards application design on the web.
A hopeless sense of direction
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May 18, 2005 10:06 AM
I have just bought a TomTom GO 300 which is a type of GPS device. One of the things this device allows you to do is connect it to your mobile phone and download traffic information etc. That is if you can get it working...
Are Macs that important!?
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July 13, 2004 9:09 AM
Recently we had a client come back to us with some concerns over the fact that their site didn't display properly on a Mac. Although we obviously fixed the problem it did make me wonder whether we have our priorities right.
A better way to build your website
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June 25, 2004 5:34 PM
Build a site that is accessible to all, look better than ever, is cheaper to build and is compatible with both future & legacy technologies.
Website feeds explained
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June 23, 2004 5:15 PM
What is a website feedA website feed (also known as RSS) is an easy way for you to keep updated automatically on websites you like. Instead of you having to go to websites to see if they've written a new article or feature, you can use a website feed to inform you every time the site have something new.
