MySpace is the biggest name in the current crop of “social networking” websites, with millions of pages. As a web designer who works to balance elegance and accessibility, I struggle to understand why: the site is often unreliable, the code … Continue reading →

After beginning my talk (see online presentation) with establishing that I was talking about people interacting via Internet technologies, I moved onto looking at some of the well-established ways of doing that. Even email is for communication between people but … Continue reading →

On Friday afternoon, I gave a presentation to the London NHS Webteam group, an informal gathering of NHS employees in the region who are involved with websites (ranging from communications officers who think about what they say to developers who … Continue reading →

One of the problems I have on my computer is that I’m running low on disk space, which has been exacerbated by the increasing number of higher resolution photos I have been taking. At some point, I’ll probably get an … Continue reading →

My blog stretches back to March 2005 with an almost unbroken run of postings. That was not my first foray into blogging, as I had used the technology to put news on a couple of band websites and to track … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I was reading about how marketers are now starting to use social networking sites to their own ends. Self-promotion is a large part of what such sites are about. For example, I can see myself making … Continue reading →

I have been using my new comments concept – using some javascript to help me piggy back onto the back of my Flickr photos – for a month or so now. In most respects, I’m very happy with it but … Continue reading →

Has the volume of spam been going up even higher in recent weeks? I monitor several email accounts, most of which I’m very cautious about giving out or which have been unused for sending for years and all of them … Continue reading →

When I attended the Future of Web Apps Summit in February this year, I remember being a bit bemused while listening to David Heinemeier Hansson talk about Ruby on Rails (official site). I didn’t use any “development frameworks” except those … Continue reading →

The whole process of turning an information-rich id attribute into an informative comments block is done using Javascript. Written from scratch, this would require a lot of code but, by virtue of using one of the libraries that is readily … Continue reading →