Wildfalcon

Thinking and developing in everything – by Laurie Young

Date archive for June, 2006

  • Working across boundaries

    24 June 06 • Comments

    Darek Powazek says in his recent article : Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!
    It may be fashionable to say “markets are conversations” or “design is about communicating ideas,” but how can that be true if the designers aren’t working with, or actually writing, the text?
    The whole article strikes me as part of the [...]

  • WebAbacus 5.1 is accessable

    22 June 06 • Comments

    We got some good PR coverage today for the upcoming release of WebAbacus 5.1. One of several major improvments in 5.1 over 5.0 is that we have added an accessability interface, conforming to the WAI’s AA standard. This brings the product up to standard in terms of inclusive design, meaning that more people can use [...]

  • Search Traffic

    3 June 06 • Comments

    One of the things I have discovered as a result of working in web analytics, and playing with analysing my own site is that the search terms that people use to find my site are not what I would have expected. Top of the list (in various forms) are:
    • Rails Migration
    • [...]

  • The return of Value(less)host

    2 June 06 • Comments

    Over the last few days I have received a lot of comments on my post about Valuehost. Basically I ran (sort of still do) a largish website, and we use Valuehost for the hosting. They are very crap, and we will be moving from them to a better hosting company just as soon as we [...]

  • Birthday Blog

    2 June 06 • Comments

    Birthdays are strange things, the more you have the more you try and pretend they don’t matter, and the more people try and tell you they are not so bad. I’m not really sure why it is that people think they are bad things, Its true, you are getting older, but as someone just said [...]