Monthly Archives: September 2006

Well done to Escape client, Testway Housing, who recently won the Communications Award at the recent National Neighbourhood Awards – the Oscars of the housing world. The Social Landlord won the award as recognition of the work in publicising it’s Twice as Nice Furniture Recycling Project. One of the highlights of their campaign being the [...]

Happy birthday to you.Happy birthday to you.Happy birthday dear Google.Happy birthday to you. Google, the biggest and most used search engine of them all is celebrating it’s 8th Birthday today.  Happy birthday Google.

I was mucking about on the computer today and got a bit bored, so I thought i’d have a look at what’s new and hip on the web. First stop as usual was www.coolhomepages.com – generally considered amongst us web developers as the definitive “what’s cool” list. I was scanning through the recently added list [...]

Think you’re a horror film buff? Put yourself to the test with this smashing new viral from M&Ms: http://us.mms.com/us/dark/index.jsp

Do you find that batteries always seem to run out at the most inconvenient moment, leaving you with no option but to nip down the shop to buy some more?  Well no more my friend! Erm…just as long as you have a computer handy at least. Allow me to introduce USBCELL – rechargeable batteries you [...]

Well here we have a design classic* from the Shepperton Design Studio. and thanks to firebox we can all have one – for a price of course! Call me strange, I dont care, but just once I’d love to don this suit and run around making laser gun noises!…Now, if they release a Boba fett [...]

SEO (or search engine optimisation) is a great way to drive traffic to your web site. Brandon Cornett at ISEDB.Com gives us his seven components of a well-round SEO program: Create quality content Create web-based resources or tools Start a blog Publish press releases online Publish articles online Add your site to quality directories Acquire [...]

It’s an issue we talk about a lot and we build our sites accordingly, but news from the States about Target, an on-line retailer, who have been taken to court by the National Federation of the Blind. Yahoo: The suit charges that Target’s website ( http://www.target.com ) is inaccessible to the blind, and therefore violates [...]

First off, apologies if you are, but if you’re not, perhaps the recent report from Knowledgestorm will convince you to. In short, the study shows that 81% of all the participants read blogs, 30.5% of which use RSS feeds to keep upto date with them and 53% say that the blogs they read have an [...]

Here’s another fantastic tool from Google – News Archive Search. This new addition to the already popular Google News tool allows you access to over 200 years of news articles from a huge selection of publications from across the world. The system works just like the normal Google search but with the added feature of [...]