Mark Newton
My musings about the future improvements in search engines were caused by me having a day trip away from the office to NXTGEN’s excellent Fest09 event in Cambridge. Regular readers will probably remember me mentioning NXTGEN user group, a rapidly expanding group of like minded people interested in Microsoft technologies and pizza. They meet all […]
Underwater Horse trials – at last something to watch at the Olympics! By now those of you who want to will have applied for your tickets for the 2012 Olympics and no doubt used the web site to do so. I am very pleased to see that not much money has been spent on developing […]
Getting back to web development it would be remiss of me not to mention the new EU laws concerning cookies which came into effect in May 26th 2011. Like most legislation surrounding new technology it seems to be full of anomalies and uncertainties. I would suspect, that the powers that be are waiting for trial cases […]
What a month it has been for some exciting products for web designers and application builders with two of these being previewed at the recent Microsoft Mix09 event in Las Vegas. This year yours truly was reduced to watching the live feed as the only press from the UK had to pay their own fares, […]
The ICO change the way their site informs users about cookies Most of you reading this will already know about the farcical changes made by the UK government over user privacy and the use of cookies by web sites. This law was introduced over two years ago and a year’s grace was given to allow […]
If any companies like Adobe are reading this can I make a suggestion for a New Year’s Resolution? Please please can we have a web design tool that allows for design of conventional html web pages using CSS which allows you to design the style sheets on the fly. Dreamweaver, which used to be the […]
As you may know I am interested in user interfaces, not just web based but any interaction with the user. User interface design isn’t just about a single application, the whole operating system interacts with the user as do everyday objects. What makes an enjoyable user experience? Sometimes it is the small details that can […]
Farmville is the biggest web application out there today Whilst we are talking of technology which at first glance seems to have little use let’s take a look at Facebook and more importantly the popular games on it like Farmville, Fishville and Mafia Wars. Why is this important? Well this column is about web applications […]
I expressed concern previously about large companies adding open source code to their chargeable products and then claiming that this added functionally is the reason for the chargeable upgrade. Adobe did this trick recently with PhoneGap the mobile phone emulation software and also with Typekit the technology that promises to make multiple fonts usable on […]
Advertising on the Internet in the UK now comes under the ASA Anyone placing adverts or making claims about their products or services via the internet will from the 1st of March have to follow the advertising guidelines set out by the Advertising Standards Authority ( ASA ). Previously Internet based adverts have not come […]