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- June 23, 2008
Diaries of a Freelancer - Day 1
Waking up at the crack of noon and stinking of stale beer, random memories flash through my head and I wonder how I even made it home last night. It all seemed harmless at first, leaving drinks at the local pub, but soon enough it was trays of shots, long clingy hugs goodbye and an [...]
- June 10, 2008
Developing your Descriptions - Part 1, The Problem
I am currently doing some SEO work for a personal project, more specifically I am populating the description meta-data for this project.
For this, I am making sure each page description is unique and presents an accurate description of what each page is about if a user were to click on a search result.
Now this is [...]
- May 23, 2008
Real World Web Standards - Web Directions Gov 2008
I was asked to speak recently at Web Directions Government in Canberra. The topic I chose to speak about was Real World Web Standards where I discussed my past experience with larger projects at my ex-employer News Digital Media.
I had done this presentation before at a smaller conference last year but I decided to put [...]
- May 16, 2008
Hibernation
It’s time to come out of hibernation, remove the tompian from my arse and have a look around for a good ol’ meal. My tummy is rumbling and the legs are a bit shaky, but dozing in a dark cave is getting a bit lonely and my mind needs a challenge again.
Standardzilla packed it in [...]
- December 12, 2007
Subdomains and Google
Recently, Google has announced a change in its treatment of subdomains and how they are represented in their search result pages.
In the past, subdomains such as:example.com
phones.example.com
furniture.example.com
yoyos.example.comhave all been treated as separate hostnames. To explain why this might be an advantage to you the website owner, you need to know how Google have treated these separate [...]
- December 1, 2007
HTML Email Standards
Every couple of months or so, developers at work have to rebuild some HTML email templates and turn to my team and ask the inevitable question, “Do we have HTML email standards?”.
“They aren’t complete” is my usual answer as I flashback to my last attempt at painfully coding up an HTML template and trying to [...]
