Archive for August, 2007

IP address binding with IIS

Posted: 31st August 2007 by Grant Perry in IIS, Web servers

This little trick has saved my life with quite a number of times!! But took me a while to find, so here I am sharing… Lets say you’ve already got IIS running on your 2003 server, but you want to install several other web servers (or just one.. Hehe). You’ve already assigned a number of [...]

There’s a lot of buzz with Frameworks and Libraries these days, and rightly so, without them some projects I’ve worked on would still be under construction!!! Developing with frameworks and libraries will save you time in both development and testing. The abundance of functionality some provide often mean you’ll end up with a better end [...]

3D boxes remnants of traditional shopping

Posted: 23rd August 2007 by Grant Perry in Marketing

Are you selling electronic products online? Such as software, videos, music… People are use to buying physical products even still in this electronic age. Even when more and more people are turning to purchasing and downloading music and videos in electronic formats. We get use to the way the world works, and once something set [...]

Indescriptive links

Posted: 22nd August 2007 by Grant Perry in Accessibility, Usability, Writing

Its very poor practice to use the text like “Click here” as links. Some browsers, particularly some for disabled users, provide a summary of links throughout a page. If this practice were to be adopted throughout a page, a list of links like this would be presented to the user: Click here Open this Here [...]

How should our clients email us?!?

Posted: 21st August 2007 by Grant Perry in Marketing, Writing

There are a few of options with how you can use email addresses as a prominent contact method on your website.  These are: You use one account for a service/business area to check and manage. You use multiple accounts for, one for each specific service/function. You can use personal email accounts. Personal email accounts can [...]

Linking outside…

Posted: 20th August 2007 by Grant Perry in Writing

There is no legal requirement for any website to obtain permission to link to another. There have however been a number of court cases surround hyper linking on the internet. Particularly surrounding the practice of ‘deep linking’ (linking to a page on a site deeper than its homepage). Although it has been very rare that [...]