Monthly Archives / April 2008

Des makes a prediction at Boot Camp

This morning I joined my colleague Des Traynor for his course entitled ‘Killer Web Applications’.

Delegates completing an exercise at the Killer Web Applications workshop

Interestingly, he forecasted that within 5 years most (if not all) desktop applications will have migrated online. He is so confident of this, that he even promised to refund delegate fees from his own pocket if it does not happen.

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The levers of power

It is 3 weeks since An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern announced his intention to resign in May. Already his successor has been anointed and is readying himself to take over as head of the cabinet.

Governance, it seems, abhors a vacuum.

Except on the web.

Happily, experience indicates that by tweaking just 5 levers you can start to build an effective management system for your site.

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Analytics is more than the tool

With the introduction of Google Analytics to the market, use of and interest in analytics has grown dramatically. This can only be a good thing, however to truly get the best from your web analytics tool, you have to go beyond the tool and the data and Continue reading

Accessibility: Build it in, don’t bolt it on

Accessibility should be considered, communicated and planned for from the get-go of every web project. In most cases it’s not, it’s too late and that’s when we’re called in. We’d like that to change, so that we’re not righting design oversights late in the process, when there’s little project time or budget left.

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