Author Archives: Neil Ferguson

Pinterest: Something borrowed, something new

Pinterest has created a great deal of buzz in recent months. The social bookmarking website invites users to share and categorize web content and its standout visual-based grid design has worked very well for its growing community of mainly female subscribers. A recent review of the site drew the following slightly churlish summary: “It’s been [...]

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Nativespace

After a fairly grim experience with a previous company, we moved our hosting contract to Nativespace who’ve been consistently doing such a good job that I’ve felt motivated enough to blog about them. That’s without any commission, benefit or any other alterior motive other than a genuine feeling of credit where it’s due. Our previous [...]

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Keywords Meta Tag

The keywords meta tag has been declared dead or obsolete for a long time now. In the past, website owners could declare keywords that reflected the content on a web page and, if these terms were typed into a search engine there was a chance that the web page would be displayed in the search [...]

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SearchStatus Firefox Plugin

Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is a hugely popular addition to the web design toolkit due to its support of standards-compliant web coding and also due to the range of plugins and add-ons that can extend what your web browser can do. One of our favourite extensions to the standard web browser is SearchStatus which can [...]

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Customizing WordPress

WordPress is the most popular off-the-shelf blogging platform, driving somewhere in the region of 100m active websites. Our main website is custom-built as are all our client’s sites as WordPress can’t match a hand-built site for delivering a unique user experience. However, for our blog, we couldn’t see any reason to try and reinvent the [...]

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