Perhaps you have heard of the Google's pubsubhubbub protocol (PuSH for short) that was unveiled last year. It is basically an extension of an RSS. Instead of Google and other various services pinging your site for new content, they can subscribe to your site; you tell them when the new content is published,… [read more]

Many developers are familiar with problems of making a perfectly standard website display properly in Internet Explorer 6 browser. Usually a development process would consist of testing the site in Firefox or another standard compliant browser. Then, after opening it up in IE6, one would need to figure… [read more]

Dynamic features such as Variables and Functions in CSS have been a hot topic of debate for a while. On one hand, programming-oriented people have been begging for these to be included in the next CSS installments, while countless others are pointing out the difficulties of including these inside CSS… [read more]

We recently completed our website redesign and relaunch, which is always an exciting moment! Many factors come into play when the idea of a redesign is on the table, besides making it aesthetically cleaner and functionally smarter. Why redesign? What was not working with the existing layout? What is… [read more]

Flash websites have been the fear of SEOs since the inception. Many of us have to constantly battle clients who want a pretty flash website and don't want to understand the technical jibber jabber about why it's not good for search engines. We try to explain as best as we can why "Flash sucks," and… [read more]

I get angry when I see companies buy pricey media such as print, television, radio or outdoor and they don't take advantage to tie that media buy to the web in an effective way. What do I mean by this? Take for example a large billboard on the side of the highway that has a message about a specific… [read more]

Okay, you might not have had that two billion dollar idea, but that doesn't mean you can't partake in its features. APIs (Application Program Interfaces) allow programmers to access publicly available services from widely known services, which can make your "web 1.0" (sorry about the moniker, folks)… [read more]

Part of my job is to take the vision of a client and translate it into a tangible website. In some cases it is an extension or an arm to their business (e-commerce website for an existing shop, enhancements to an existing website) in others it is the entire business. When you've got your entire business,… [read more]