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Problematic Changes

As I designer I’m all for changing websites; maybe the design got a bit stuffy, maybe there’s a new layout you’d like to try, maybe you’ve got a better idea than before, or even your focus has changed.
Change is good. But yesterday I noticed some websites that once had very important links to my clients’ [...]

Find & Replace line breaks in MS Word

As a designer I’m quite often working on text files here & there and sometimes cutting & pasting data from various sources into MS Word means that the formatting is all wrong (tip: paste into notepad first to strip formatting then paste that output into Word) or there’s no formatting at all.
For instance – [...]

Oceanwide Properties

We’re currently working with a client by the name of Oceanwide Properties who sell property in Turkey.
As well as consulting for their web design & web development projects we’re project managing their SEO strategy and slowly but surely raising their profile in the search engines.
The site will be undergoing a redevelopment & redesign to help [...]

Firebug for Firefox

A developer friend put me on to the Firebug extension for Firefox a few months back and yesterday it proved invaluable in identifying some troublesome code on a live web page. I specifically used Firebug to track down which classes and IDs in a blogger page template were causing my layout problems and it worked [...]

OctaGate SiteTimer

I’ve been busy using a huge array of free web tools over the last few weeks and the OctaGate SiteTimer has proved to be very handy.
Whilst optimising the HTML and PHP code in a number webpages I used the SiteTimer, checking to see if there were any noticeable speed gains, and the OctaGate SiteTimer not [...]

New Life in IT

New Life in IT is a premier web design company specialising in the provision of Open Source Software solutions.
With a firm footing in the Joomla! CMS arena, New Life in IT provide a depth of experience from Business Analysis & Consulting through Professional Training to some pretty funky enterprise level web development solutions… we know [...]

IE dominance

In the early days, back in ‘98, I found IE4 to be a better browser than NS Navigator. Personally I found the NSN buttons and tool bars to bloated and gimmicky and the cleaner lines of IE4 allowed just that little bit more screen to show.
But here, 9 years later, I have found that my [...]