Once upon a time, in the old frontier days of the internet, web sites were developed without the benefits of content managers like WordPress or Drupal. This made them difficult and costly to update and add new content, requiring a web designer to make the changes. Fortunately content managers have become so ubiquitous and cheap [...]

We recently completed the development of a web site for a Financial Services client which is a little different than the normal website. It is not just a web site, it is in fact almost 2,000 web sites, all managed and hosted on a single WordPress instance on the same server. (Unfortunately for reasons of [...]

In a recent article in the high profile technology trends magazine, Wired, written by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, with the aid of some dubious figures and pretty graphics, argued that the World Wide Web is dying, and it is being replaced by applications, particularly for mobile devices.  That is, although the internet as a [...]

If you are getting a new website what are the main things you need to consider?  Is it that you should have the best and most exciting website design? Or is it whether the site is built on an open source platform? While both these may be important factors in your decision they clearly should [...]

We have now established the need for our website, and produced an overall plan incorporating the budget and resources requirements.  Therefore the next stop is we should sort out the design…………………. Or rather its not the next stop.   Many do rush in at this stage (or even earlier) and ask a web designer to come up [...]

It may seem a little late to start planning for the website, after already establishing the business case and requirements for the site, and also deciding the name, and registering these as domains and optimally as trademarks.  And there certainly is a case for having a plan for these preliminary activities, particularly if it is for [...]

In this blog we will comment and bring updates on new developments in the internet which will be relevant to businesses using the web to do business. The web grows get more complex every week, so it is more and more difficult to keep abreast of changes. So we will try and distill the more [...]