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Google is not a person.

May 6, 2008

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I’ve been using the term ‘Google’ as a personification lately, and until today I hadn’t realised just how often I think or speak as such. For those not in the know about my job, I’m in the business of making websites. Most of my sites involve some degree of Search Engine Optimisation (or Optimization for [...]

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Making good websites is an art

February 27, 2008

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Functionality, Useability, Graphic / Interface Design, Cost Effectiveness, Code Readibility, Futureproofing, Browser Compatibility, Search Engine Optimisation, Security and Disaster Recovery - These are some of the things website developers have to weigh up on each and every project we take on.
When I started programming and developing websites I guess I was a bit of an [...]

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Boredom and Stress, the Webmaster’s Spectrum

January 14, 2008

The boredom factor comes and goes, sometimes running parallel with the stress. It’s not every day that you come across a webcomic-browsing ball of pent up stress, and I can’t think of another industry where this might be true. I’m stressed because unlike most problems, I can’t just log in to a control panel, click some buttons, and hey presto it’s fixed. With issues like this I have to rely on two things which all webmasters loathe: dns propagation times and hosting tech support.

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