Covering a range of topics from questions you should be asking, to accessibility (including colour blindness), to meta. Some of it’s dated, but it’s a look back at history.
August 2020 When I got a minute, back in June, I took a closer look at site speed, as it seems very sluggish. It was. So I made a number of changes – mostly to widgets – and the page load time improved from over 40 seconds to under 3 seconds, without greatly hurting the …
SomeLongUselessName This is a post about search engines and online advertising. The title is meaningless, it is meant to be meaningless, after all, it forms a test about search engine optimisation. An advert claimed results in 60 seconds. I call bullshit, but rather that use their software I’m going to do it myself, ‘cos SEO …
Random side post: It matters! I started this in the middle of a game development post, and it grew a bit. This post is (more or less) about SEO, but it crosses over. One of my favourite quotes, which I have to constantly remind myself of, is: “You don’t see the world as it is, …
Update: March 15th 2018 : Ackadia is under maintenance. Apologises for the ugly look, moved server hosts and the restore was unable to link the (1,000s of) images to the relative posts, so I have to do it manually re-add them, and work on the layout and design. It will take some time as there …
At present Ackadia is having serious issues with connectivity with Hostgator and it’s a tad frustrating, and annoying, that there is little to nothing I can do about the situation. [ Now fixed, but read on. ] Well, I could change hosting companies – again – but as I’ve paid in advance for this server …
Hostgator hosted website issues – man down, hands tied! Read More »
« Ackadia’s Access Keys » Note: The following is from my archives and as such not relevant to the theme-based WordPress front end we now have. I can’t actually remember when I wrote this, but the Wayback Machine archive for this access keys article goes back to October 2004, some twelve years ago. For navigation …
From the archives: Accessibility and Access Keys Read More »
Intro The web design questionnaire below was part of a business plan feasibility study towards my ILM Level 2 Certificate in Enterprise. These are the questions a prospective web company should be asking themselves and a range of potential clients to ascertain whether the market exists and is viable. This suggested list excludes other factors …
Web designers’ questionnaire – 16 questions you should be asking clients Read More »
This is something for you to think about when you see a web site offered for free or something ridiculous like £1.99 a year including e-commerce. Stuff economies of scale, costs have to be covered. You can do sites for free (or at least at cost), I certainly do for friends, but you have to …