Author Archives: Bruce

Surf’s up…well sort of

SurfGiver.com is a website that has been designed to turn an everyday activity like shopping online into a way of contributing to a cause and to connect supporters to charities and non-profits.
Shops and retailers are prepared to offer a percentage of their sales (a commission) to other websites which direct shoppers to them, as a [...]

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IE8 to use ‘Standards mode’ by default

I had taken the week off from work to do some much needed DIY to our house as well as probably needing to take a break from all things webby - it’s sometimes a good idea to get your hands dirty doing something else. Where I work we often measure each other against the [...]

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Watch out for common usability problems

Here’s a great article from the Smashing Magazine that brings up 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of.
It’s more than likely been published on a few well-known websites so no doubt I’m not the first but I still think it’s worth flagging this article up again as it highlights some important pitfalls.
Anyway, here are [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 on it’s way…

It was revealed on the IEBlog that the next version of Microsoft’s web browser will be Internet Explorer 8. No surprises there.
More significantly though is the news (from the same source): internal builds of IE 8 now pass the Acid2 test. I guess to most people this doesn’t sound like anything special - [...]

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