July 2008 - Posts

• Microsoft does the Pepsi challenge

  Microsoft have launched a site called the Mojave Experience and the views on it have been quite wide ranging.From comparing it to the Milgram experiments in the 60's.To being critical of people who aren't tech savvy enough to use VistaTo what if Apple Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 30 July 2008 00:35 by Andrew Martin | 1 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Marketing, Blogging

• The survey for people who make websites

  After the success of last year's survey where almost 33,000 web professionals took the List Apart survey they're running it again.Take it here.Tags: A List Apart Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 29 July 2008 23:28 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Measurement

• If fonts were people

  Via Digg For all you designers out there Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 23 July 2008 06:15 by Andrew Martin | 3 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Random

• 10 Downing Street is getting a new website

  Hat tip to Puffbox that 10 Downing Street is soon to be releasing a new website, looks like a big improvement.You can read their post here but in short Wordpress basedMore videoStreamlined navigationno go live date as of yet  Tags: 10 Downing Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 18 July 2008 12:25 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Marketing, Blogging

• The 10 Commandments of Web Design

  Business week has an interesting article titled The 10 Commandments of Web Design. It lists these as Thou shalt not abuse Flash Thou shalt not hide content Thou shalt not clutter Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections Thou shalt not name your Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 17 July 2008 15:22 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology

• It's the little things that count in web development

  I often listen to the radio through the BBC's excellent iPlayer while working but the link in my browser was to the older version. Now that they seem to have stopped publishing all the shows to it I had to update the link, I didn't actually know there Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 17 July 2008 11:04 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments

• New Balance the Marmite of the sports world

  I saw an ad recently for New Balance's Love/Hate advertising campagin and rather than me wanting to go and buy a pair, it normally doesn't take too much encoragement for me to buy a new pair of shoes, all I could think of was Marmite.There's a slight Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 02 July 2008 08:58 by Andrew Martin | 1 Comments Filed Under: Random, Media, Marketing