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I've just posted a Tweet announcing the launch of the newly re-designed website for The Dgial Academy www.digitalacademy.co.za I though it would be good exposure for the company if I allowed Twitter to post the update to my Facebook timeline as well and of course it's a bit of a brag for my web developing expertise :) Posts to FB usually elicit some sort of response from folk who know you well enough to speak their mind and that's what I love about real time conversations online. What I didn't expect was a short and sharp (if a tad sarcastic)…

If you're a social media type and use Twitter and other social media platforms, you will have come across shortened website adresses. Twitter's limitation of 140 characters means there's no room for long-winded converations and certainly not for lengthy website adresses. So you're not just micro-blogging but micro-linking too, to get  all you want to say into the 2 rows available.  But there's anothr great use for this...

Have you ever wondered how safe your hard work is on the web? Some years back I ran a Google search for a very specific sentence in an article I wrote. It was quite an eye-opener to find that a young aspiring web desinger, to whom we outsource work on an ad-hoc basis, had formulated most of his own web copy on my hard work. Your website content or blog posts take quite some reasearch and planning, let alone writing, editing and checking for grammar.  Then you proudly hit that publish button knowing you've done a great job. But what are the chances you've put…

I receievd instructions to a really funny look at Google Maps the other day and thought it worth sharing. It was posted to my FaceBook wall and drew my attention immediately because of its reference to Google Maps. For a good chuckle read on...

Personally I think that business is so mobile these days - and laptop sales out-weigh desktops - that I feel safer developiing for max 1024 which can be accommodated by the majority of laptops without forcing horizontal scrollbars. The templates we use and design are usually no more than 980px wide. As developers and designers we make use of wide monitors for purposes of seeing as much as possible on-screen. And because we can see so much of the page on screen, a mistake often made by template designers is to have a substantial amount of eye-candy in the header…

Research Your on-line Business - a few ideas for planning your new Website Be your customer One of the effective ways of brainstorming the usability for your new website, and to help determine what would be good features for your website, is to put yourself in your customers' shoes.... um, make that in front of your customers' connectivity device!