William's Blog Posts
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5
May
In recent weeks website blocking has been in the news a great amount. The UK government plan to introduce DNS blocking of illegal file sharing or otherwise illegal websites. This is much the same system that they currently use in China. Chinese internet users are unable to connect to social media sites such as Facebook, [...]
14
Mar
When it comes down to website video, you have two main options: Host it yourself, and display it using your own player Upload and embed it from YouTube. Each method has its positives and negatives, and we shall go through them. Self hosted This allows you to have full control over your video content; you [...]
13
Mar
W3Techs is an interesting website which crawls, and then ranks your website out of 100 based on the technology which is used within your page. It looks for things such as social integration plugins and traffic analysis tools to analyse how modern and effective you site is. W3Techs evaluates the technologies which it can find [...]
12
Mar
Mr Doob is a creative HTML 5 and JavaScript developer that periodically releases new projects which harness the full capability of the latest web technologies. Doob’s collection includes cloud simulators, modelling programmes and innovative games. Each and every project is jaw-dropping and hugely fun to play with. Google Gravity This is a neat little application [...]
12
Mar
Reset your CSS Every browser interoperates web pages differently, this reset CSS script attempts to normalise your site, displaying it the same in all web browsers. This is extremely handy and a must-do for all web developers. Do not use CSS3 As amazing as CSS3 is, older browsers especially Internet Explorer fail to display this [...]
11
Feb
All links for the following software can be found at the end of the article. Notepad++ Notepad++ is a free, open source text editor that offers a neat working platform for any developer. It supports many programming languages, including JavaScript, HTML, Java and PHP. If you are still using Microsoft notepad, or a stone age [...]
5
Feb
You should never underestimate the power of video; some people say a video is worth a thousand words, however new studies show this figure is closer to a million! Video is an extremely powerful medium which allows businesses and individuals to convey their message with ease. Here at Designaweb we have just produced our corporate [...]
11
Dec
Today I have just come across Google web fonts; I am amazed that I haven’t found this sooner. As with all Google products, the interface is very clean and easy to navigate. I had my first font set up in less than five minutes. For those that don’t know what a web font is, a [...]
11
Dec
Today I came across a really good resource for finding Photoshop brushes, both free and premium; BrushLovers. Photoshop Brushes are a great time saver when it comes to creating big designs, and these brushes are definitely stylish. BrushLovers boast over being the biggest unique online collection of high-quality brushes on the web. They have brushes [...]
13
Nov
Earlier this year we saw the release of the Google Panda Search which promised us more relevant search results. They did this by demoting so-called “Content Farms” which are useless pages packed with SEO and relevant keywords. Google is now releasing an expansion of this idea, coined the “Caffeine” update. Google believes that users are [...]
