Web Standards
- July 1, 2008
Google now Indexing Flash Content
It seems Google are really on a mission to uncover the invisible web with new announcements of algorithm tweaks here and there to improve their coverage and search engine results.
Today, Google announce the ability to begin indexing Flash files. Pretty big news really, and with the promises of executing JavaScript in the near future one [...]
- June 27, 2008
Real World Web Standards - Slidecast Uploaded
Just a quick update to my old post of the Real World Web Standards presentation at Web Directions Government in Canberra from May 2008.
I have now synced the podcast to the slideshow, and all embedded versions of this slideshow will now be of the slidecast version. There is also an embedded slidecast on my profile [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- November 3, 2007
Alt text and form buttons set as images
There is something I always used to forget, and I didn’t realise this until a website I developed in the past was the recipient of a very comprehensive, postmortem accessibility review.
I am quite pleased to say the majority of the results were decent. The pedantic standardista in me had in fact hacked up the correct [...]
- October 13, 2007
SEU, Search Engine Useless
Lately I have been asked again and again, “What can I do to improve my rankings in Google?”. This is a bit of a loaded question, but one I always attempt to answer when I am dealing with anything search related.
I usually begin with a quick glance at the website using the 30 second test, [...]
