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  • cuil sucks
    That new search engine, cuil, you know the reputed Google killer? It sucks. From England I typed in “Small business news” and got served a dish of useless American websites – useless to me anyway. Why do I sit in an office in (Old) Hampshire and wish to see small business news from Cleveland, New [...]
  • IE7 Pageload Sound
    This isn’t a design post, but more of a tip to stop you being driven insane whilst you have to use IE7. Does anybody else find the sound that IE7 makes when it loads/reloads pages really annoying? It’s that irritating “tick” sound when you open a new tab and load a page. Or when an [...]
  • Definition: Web 2.0
    The definition of Web 2.0: The proliferation of simple web technologies allowing and promoting the filling-up of the world wide web with an over-abundance of utterly useless information. Blogs and simple CMS systems abound and I feel like I’m really starting to see the same things day after day, over and over again… Ah yes, [...]
  • Firefox is Crap
    I’m a big fan of Firefox and always have been. I was a big fan of Firebird before that too (remember that one, oldtimers?). IE6 has been the bane of my designers’ life and IE7, although much of an improvement over Internet Excruciator 6, is still not as good as I’d expect from a team [...]
  • SEO Rant
    A new client has asked me for some help with their website and part of the task is to assist them with their SEO. Their current SEO company have submitted their URL to a few dozen search engines and are apparently re-submitting every month for a fee of £40. For this £40 my client receives [...]
  • IE7 favicons
    Why does Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 have such a scrappy tab bar? On the PLUS side IE7′s tab bar does use little screen real estate as they squeeze in a lot of buttons (including the Favourites, Quick Tabs, Home, Feeds, Print, Page and Tools buttons) but on the other hand I’m not happy that if [...]

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