Web Development Blog

Everyone loves thinking about the future, whether it’s simply planning a holiday for later in the year or wondering when personal jetpacks will finally be a viable mode of transport and if robots will take over the world once they crack the Turing test. The only thing you can predict about the future is that [...]

So, Mozilla are upgrading their version of Firefox …again. Firefox 7 8 is here only a couple of months after the people over at Mozilla did their last major version upgrade. Mozilla’s aggressive rollouts are mainly down to the people at Google Inc. running their popular Chrome browser at version 15. It’s crazy that Chrome [...]

A content management system (CMS) driven website solves a lot of problems presented in modern day websites; namely the ability for people without web development skills to edit their website. The ability to keep a website up-to-date is important for a number of reasons, none moreso than to retain your visitors. As with most solutions, [...]

Google has done a lot for work on Social SEO in recent times and their new innovation, Google +1, is a continuation of that. The premise is simple: Google +1 allows users to recommend links to “friends, contacts and others on the web”. This can be either from search results pages or directly from a [...]

CSS3 and HTML5 have been highly anticipated by web developers and designers for several years.   Although both languages are currently considered “works in progress,” some of their key features have recently been made available for demonstrational use on the most popular browsers.  For anybody familiar with traditional CSS and HTML, the new techniques should be [...]

This is a quick blog post relating to the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox and Google Chrome. A couple of weeks ago I was happily browsing the Internet when my Firefox browser crashed. I thought “no big deal” and re-opened my browser but to my despair, my Web Developer Toolbar had disappeared, leaving a very [...]