social meltdown sites

Posted by on May 10, 2008 in Archive, Web design

So much for social networking sites. I just tried again to update my MySpace site because last week when I tried to do it the site was so busy it just crawled to stop and I had to get off. This week – same story. I don’t know how much longer I can go on persevering with god awful websites, whose main goal seems to be the serving of ads rather than customers. Why is it when MySpace churns to a stop (as it frequently does) that for a whole minute, while my browser waits for MySpace to decide if it’s too much trouble to actually serve the content I asked for, that nevertheless...

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Death by SEO

Posted by on May 5, 2008 in Archive, Web & Internet Marketing, Web design

Even the most extreme search engine optimisation won’t, on its own, jet-propel your web site up to position 1, or even to page one, on Google necessarily. Good positions are best achieved by running a well-rounded web marketing strategy, SEO is just one of the many tactics such a plan would employ. Search Engine Optimization (or optimisation as the British prefer) is a key web marketing activity. According to Wikipedia it is the job of “improving rankings for relevant keywords in search results by rectifying the web site structure, and content such that they could be...

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FTSE 100 web site survey, 2006

Posted by on Jun 14, 2006 in Archive, Web design

This survey assesses the technical quality, usability and accessibility of the homepage on the main web site of each member of the FTSE 100 group of companies. Kilroy James first surveyed this group, and a much larger group of smaller companies, in 2004 in order to get a picture of the general web design standards promoted and achieved by British companies. Now in its third year the survey has developed greatly, applying up to twenty tests during each homepage examination. The FTSE 100 survey looks at WCAG Accessibility ratings, W3C technical testing, and the use (and omittance) of numerous...

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