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Another Microsoft/Accenture Messup
Posted: July 3, 2009 - 0 comment(s) [ Comment ] - 0 trackback(s) [ Trackback ]

Thanks to a blog post from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, I read about how the London Stock Exchange is going to dump their LSE (London Stock Exchange)’s Windows-based TradElect system.

I remember reading news when Microsoft got this contract and were so happy about it. But then to hear our good friends at Accenture were involved is not a surprise.

Do Accenture do anything good, from the people they picked from my University it doesnt come at a surprise they fail at a lot of things.
Twitter based advertising
Posted: June 25, 2009 - 0 comment(s) [ Comment ] - 0 trackback(s) [ Trackback ]
Category: Advertising

I was just thinking of writing something about how marketeers are struggling to find ways to exploit twitter and I noticed this banner ad.

It suggested I get a Routan.

Keep on struggling…
Another Ski Centre messup
Posted: June 25, 2009 - 0 comment(s) [ Comment ] - 0 trackback(s) [ Trackback ]
Category: Bugs

I have a tendency to go on to sites and not looking for errors or bugs, but they come and find me. Normally I find an error and the website admin normally thanks me and fixes the bug. But the new ski center in Hemel Hempstead have really annoyed me. I pointed a massive error on their gallery on their launch site and was never fixed, or given a thankyou.

Now while looking at their website to see if I wanted to go, I found this.

Ski Center Joke

Ski Center Joke

This was my response

I have pointed out a problem on your website before and I didn’t get a
thank you. Well go to job vacancies page and just press send. You will
see a big error on top of the page. Your website is a complete joke and
if that is a reflection on how you run the ski center I fear for my
safety.

I will not mention names, but the company they use for website development, is another website for dummies candidate.

Everyone can build a website, just not very good it seems.
Super Faster Websites
Posted: June 21, 2009 - 0 comment(s) [ Comment ] - 0 trackback(s) [ Trackback ]
Category: websites

An interesting even-faster-web-sites-presentation from Steve Souders.

It is regarding how to make website even faster, simplifying CSS selectors.

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Using applications like Yslow you can see what is slowing up your website.

But my question is, Is all this worth it to your clients? Saying to your client that you have speeded up your site by 2 seconds, will most likely not interest them. Especially if they are viewing on their corporate fast Internet and not any of their customers, restricted Virgin or BT broadband connection.

My Top Tip is just to do your CSS and HTML in clean and efficient and avoiding items like “descendant selectors”. If you are doing something like a mobile website where speed is esstential these speed tips will help greatly.
Does the Shell LiveWire programmee really help
Posted: June 16, 2009 - 2 comment(s) [ Comment ] - 0 trackback(s) [ Trackback ]
Category: Issues

I have been with the shell livewire programme for a longtime and  I think the idea to bring young entreprenuers networking is a great idea.

But I have always wondered this, why do they have all their websites designed/developed by a company that has nothing to do with the programme.www.indigomultimedia.com/

Wouldn't it be much better to have someone or a few on the programmee help to design and develop the tools on here.

I think that the best people to develop tools for themselves are the people that use it.


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