On January 24th Google revealed some major updates to their privacy policy. There has been a mixed response to the changes that were announced on Google’s Official Blog, by Alma Whitten (Google’s Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering).
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The Nielsen Norman Group are bringing their usability week back to Edinburgh. From the 19th – 23rd of March 2012, they will be running 18 full-day tutorials. Sadly this means you can’t attend all of them.
Read more about: The Nielsen Norman Group is coming to Edinburgh »
You have installed and configured your Symfony2 project, added the Entity classes, prepared everything for persisting them into a database and, bam, you end up with the following error message after executing “php app/console doctrine:database:create” the command prompt:
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User Interface 16, the User Experience and Design Conference developed by the team at User Interface Engineering, was held in Boston, MA (USA) back in November 2011.
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Merry Christmas from the team at Border Crossing Media!
We’ve had a very busy 2011 with new projects and even our own rebrand. We’d like to thank all the people we have had the joy to work with over the last year and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a spectacular New Year.
Our office will be closed from 12pm Friday the 23rd of December until Wednesday the 4th of January 2012.
We will be checking emails and picking up messages over the festive period but all non-critical issues or enquiries will not be dealt with until January 4th 2012. For all critical enquiries please call your designated point of contact on their mobile phone.
Have a wonderful Christmas & New Year!
If you are commissioning a new website or undertaking a redesign then you should include a sitemap in your brief. Doing so provides a valuable reference point that immediately helps external providers understand the scope of your requirements. You should see your preliminary sitemap as a working draft. As it is highly likely that your sitemap will be altered and refined throughout the research, design and development process.
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In the past month three different website administrators have asked us whether or not they should remove the ability to leave a comment on their blog posts.
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Businesses often throw themselves into web design or web development projects. It may take a while for it to happen but once a project is green-lit there’s normally a mad scramble to compile requirements, source quotes and kick-off the project as quickly as possible. This is totally understandable but it can get in the way of doing the research, planning and testing needed to deliver successful outcomes.
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We’ve all known for a long time that snappy page load times are key to a positive user experience. Google understands this more than most due to their extensive testing of how much “speed matters“.
Read more about: Do page load times matter and how to improve them? »
Tagging your marketing campaigns can help you measure their return on investment. Given how easy it is to do this for your online campaigns there’s no excuse not to apply these techniques to your offline campaigns too.
Read more about: Beginner’s guide to tracking a marketing campaign »
