Web Development Blog

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 [...]

Swimming Pool – A fine installation from Argentine artist Leandro Erlich. Leandro’s work usually centres around architecture such as a swimming pool, a window, rooms etc and the Swimming Pool is a great example of what can be possible and bending the perceptions of the viewer. Leandro’s almost illusion-like pieces allow the viewer to get [...]

I have recently been brushing up on my WordPress knowledge for a blog I have created for a client. While working on the blog I noticed that the error below displayed when trying to view a dynamically generated sitemap (/sitemap.xml) in my Firefox browser: Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML [...]