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Is Google being hypocritical?

At the end of last week, Google announced that they had made a change to their algorithm that harmed sites that contained too much advertising above the fold (the content visible without scrolling when a webpage first loads) and not content. On the surface this is a great move. While they state it will only effect 1% of the search results, it is another clear move to reduce the efforts of... > Read more

Hackathon - Zend Framework 2 with Doctrine 2

It has been sometime since I got the chance to just get into some new code and try out some new tools. New year's day (and part of then next) was spent trying out Zend Framework 2 beta 2 and Doctrine 2 in a little play project.The project was pretty simple, take a basic ZF2 application (based on... > Read more

IE6 Countdown to 1% usage

A campaign has been recently launched by Microsoft to encourage the reduction in use of Internet Explorer 6. The objective is to the usage of IE6 to only 1% by the end of 2011. To track  the reduction in use the ie6countdown.com website has been launched. In the year to... > Read more

Engage with your website

A website is an interactive online marketing tool that also has the major advantage in being dynamic and easy to update. It is living tool to market your business and engage with your audience. This is the opposite of a print brochure which is a snap shot in time, that is signed off,... > Read more