Google Analytics is an awesome piece of kit - considering that it is free.  It pretty much measures everything a webby / blogger would want. However there are a few bits and pieces that I would recommend you measure on your website that take an additional bit of work on your part, but can enhance t...

SEO is a wide topic - one minute you are researching, the next managing someone's reputation in the SERP's. Luckily some of this can be automated, and over the years some sites have positioned themselves as leaders in providing tools that every SEO needs. Hopefully this roundup summarises some of th...

Following on from an earlier post, there have been a few awesome designs based on the horizontal scroller trend within website design. Some of these sites have been around for a while, others have just been launched on the web. If you are looking for inspiration when designing a site that you think ...

Refresh Belfast is a regular meetup of designers, programmers and pretty much anyone involved in the web in the Greater Belfast area. It is designed to help educate and grow the community at large, encouraging debate, best practise and standards, and is part of the Refreshing Cities movement. As ...

Augmented reality is becoming more and more widespread, and is set to become shit hot property in the years to come. For those of you who aint got a clue what it is- basically augmented reality is a technique which combines real-world and computer-generated data to create a virutal reality. It enhan...

If any of you have tried developing Mozilla Firefox plugins before - you'll know that whilst they are loosely based around technologies such as HTML, there is a certain amount of navigation away from the technologies towards XML and RDF. You also have to worry about packaging your plugin in XPI form...

On the web, being unique and offering something different-  is difficult. The barriers that allow convenience shopping to thrive on the high street are removed online, and competitors are only a click away. Add to that the fact that comparison shopping sites are popping up around the web, at a r...

Ever wondered how you might get an RSS feed of a Google search? Well, its pretty simple to be honest - and enables a whole plethora of options for reputation management - especially when combined with a Google search. So how do you get the data? Well it is a relatively underused feature of Google al...

I eventually took the plunge and decided to talk at Bizcamp Belfast. The turnout was lower than Barcamp, but that may have been down to both the weather being typically Belfastish, and a bit on the damp side.  The NW200 road race was also on which probably prevented a few people from attending. How...

Here's the advice I would give to anyone looking for more traffic to their site. This is a follow on post from my earlier post on tips for building traffic - and covers a few things I didn't get a chance to squeeze in. Search referral is the source of the majority of traffic. Or as my mother alway...