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Microsoft get on the HTML5 train for Visual Studio 11 and Windows 8.

All change for Microsoft developers. Again. The new Visual Studio developer preview demonstrates that Microsoft are serious about promoting HTML5 and JavaScript as a primary application development platform for Windows 8.

Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Implementing Dublin Core meta data for EPiServer pages via a plug-in

A plug-in for EPiServer that implements the Dublin Core meta data schema for all pages without requiring any code changes.

Posted on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Web page size and browser performance – why it still matters

Web page optimisation has become a ‘lost art’, despite the relationship between link between page performance and conversion rates.

Posted on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The most commonly made mistakes of inaccessible web sites

Accessibility isn’t just about meeting the priorities of the WAI checklist – you genuinely need to understand why you are making websites accessible as well as how it helps people to use them.

Posted on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Web accessibility: the UK legal and policy context

The legal and policy context for web accessibility in the UK can be confusing, mainly because the legislation in the area has not been clear and there is a lack of explicit guidance.

Posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Using the DIV tag to display columns rather than tables

The TABLE element may be a a convenient way of producing stable layouts, but the W3C WAI guidelines are pretty clear that tables are for displaying tabular information, not for arranging page content.

Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008