Black Hat Series No.3 – Search Engine Guidelines

This is post #3 in "The Black Hat Series" – a series of blog posts aimed at educating website owners about the promise and pitfalls of Black Hat SEO strategies and techniques. The last post in this series described some of the implications (i.e. penalties) of using optimisation strategies which contravene search engine guidelines. This [...]

What’s the difference? Myspace versus Facebook

I used to love MySpace. It was the first real social networking site that appealed to me. I was introduced to MySpace when living and working overseas – by a colleague and wonderful friend who spent hours a day looking through profiles and sending messages and photos to his friends. When I started up my [...]

Forms: The Good the Bad and The Ugly

From a simple contact form to a detailed profile series or checkout process. Forms are one of the most important elements of your website. A bad form can lead to poor conversion rates, frustrated users and the loss of customers. A good form however can make what we call “Raving Fans” out of your customers. [...]

It’s Twitter time

Do you Twitter? No idea what it is? Twitter is what has been described as 'microblogging' whereby users send the equivalent of SMS messages to their twitter account, which friends and others can follow to see what you are up to. Sound dull, maybe, but for many it isn't and recent events are showing how [...]

Designing Web Success – Intentional or accidental

A question that has been top of mind for quite some time (I can take a while to let ideas go) is whether you can actually engineer large scale success on the web or not. One of my recent blog posts on my blog site covers this – click to read.