XHTML Elements - explanation, usage and examples

January 11th, 2008

This is an article intending to inform people about what XHTML elements are available to use, their correct uses and if you should actually use them or not. This information is generally based on our experience and is not intended to provide a solid definition of the XHTML usage. We welcome all suggestions and comments about this article.

List-item bullets not displaying on Firefox

January 10th, 2008

We stumbled across a weird Mozilla Firefox issue with list bullets not displaying.
When you apply a style of “display:block;” to LI elements Mozilla Firefox does not display the list bullets. At first we didn’t twig that it was the display causing the bullets not to appear but when we looked at the Firefox default CSS [...]

Google rank loss - redirect hijack

January 10th, 2008

Hacking is a topic that is often dreaded many web masters and production studios. There are a number of forms of hacking and we have seen (at one time or another) most of the common exploits used by hackers to disrupt sites. This article is about how hacking can affect your SEO Page Rank and listing.

SEO Rank Progress - Part 3

January 7th, 2008

Quick update….the importance of removing unnecessary keywords from the page title became even more evident to us as we changed our home page title from “Welcome to Digital Overload - a digital agency” to just “Digital Overload - a digital agency”, this took us from page 11 to page 7 for the search term “digital [...]

SEO Rank Progress - Part 2

January 2nd, 2008

It’s certainly been an interesting several weeks. As of this point in time we’re ranked number 1 for our chosen search term of “digital agency norwich”. This seems to be down to two main factors: First of all part one of this blog entry is being indexed at position 1 due to the fact that [...]

Internet Explorer 8 - Part 2

December 29th, 2007

Interesting news from the Microsoft camp. The IE8 development team has announced that their current development copy passes the ACID2 test!
See the full video from Microsoft: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=367207
James.

Object initialisation with PHP5

December 12th, 2007

In most projects we work on we use PHP classes to represent to components/concepts of the project. One thing that often plays on my mind is the best way to initialise those classes - this blog entry offers several ways of doing this and talks about the advantages and disadvantages.

SEO Rank Progress

December 10th, 2007

In the first of a series or articles relating to SEO on our own site, we talk about the methods we’ve used to aid a good natural search ranking along with our general philosophy on the subject. We hope to keep track of all our findings with regard to our Google ranking for our chosen keywords. Let us know your thoughts.

Internet Explorer 8

December 9th, 2007

With IE7 having been around for just over a year now, Microsoft announce the name of it’s successor…..unfortunately, that’s pretty much the only thing they did announce.

Dreamweaver Shortcuts

December 7th, 2007

Shortcuts are a feature often overlooked by many coders but can increase development speed considerably. Take a look at our “Cheat Sheet” of our most commonly used in-house shortcuts.