Tomorrow night in Manchester City centre, UKFast’s MD Lawrence Jones is joining with Yahoo, Hitwise and Internet Marketing agency Adoofa to give tips to city businesses on boosting their online presence.
It’s going to be a hugely informative evening and having heard snippets of Lawrence’s talk, a lot of the information is very specific and could [...]

Last week, at Internet World, I was a little surprised at just how much attention my podcasting generated. While many of the crowd were very web savvy, a lot of them still did not quite understand why an Internet company would deal in audio production.
The most common question was - “Where’s the money in it?” [...]

Hello Earth! When people come to me seeking a deeper understanding of what a web developer does, I usually mumble something about back ends and databases and how it’s much more interesting to do than talk about. Well today I feel like being more forthcoming, so here’s a post about the joys of web dev.
Now [...]

Lately I’ve been spreading myself all over the internet, in the same way as Jonathan Ross is spread across the TV and radio - admittedly without the wit, fame or eyeball-worrying collection of clothes. As I’ve said in previous entries, I’m a big fan of sites like 43things and last.fm, which are busy either recording [...]

Disclaimer: I know what ‘beta’ means!
Up until a few days ago I was using the new Windows Live Mail beta, instead of my usual Hotmail account. Now I’m back to good old Hotmail. Why? Mainly because the new system doesn’t work in Firefox. In my tricked-out browser of choice the whole Live Mail system is [...]

OK so there’s been a lot of news lately about Myspace:

Firebombing!
Police stings!
Rupert Murdoch!

For those of you unaware (i.e. those of you who aren’t as young and cool as you think you are), Myspace is a ’social networking’ site that basically reproduces the grown-up web in a microcosm of epileptic-fit inducing flashing backgrounds, pictures of teenagers [...]

There’s a running debate over in the creative office here today. The Research and Development team are questioning the Design team on the configuration of images for websites.
The question is: Should a designer spend time dividing the image into sections so that the webpage is loading up a number of separate files, giving the appearance [...]