Moving off of Amazon Web Services
We recently decided to rethink how we host this website. Since 2008 we’ve used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host our live and development websites as well as all of our other tools and software.
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Exclude specific IP’s from Google Anlaytics reports
Worried about your Google Analytics data being skewed by your staff’s usage of your own website? If so, set-up a custom filter to exclude those IP addresses.
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Producing images for an ecommerce store
Commissioning and producing high-quality images that really sell a product online isn’t as simple as it sounds. Forget the subjective arguments over what makes a truly great product shot it’s the cost and logistics that’s a killer.
Which Google Analytics tracking code are you using?
Whilst doing a website review I was pretty surprised to see that the old Google Analytics tracking code was still being used.
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EU directives, cookies & the issues of a grace period
Organisations that operate online should be well aware of the revision to the EU’s Privacy and Electronic Communication Directive. The changes dictate that “explicit consent” must be gathered from web users who are being tracked via “cookies“. This was supposed to come into effect on the 26th of May.
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Google Apps our transition experience
We recently received our notification that important changes were happening to Google Apps. This means our Google Apps accounts are being transitioned to Google Account infrastructure.
Getting website content ready for a release date
Producing the content required for our recent redesign has reaffirmed a simple rule – content will always take longer then you think to produce. Given our experience of working with clients we know this is rarely down to a lack of application.
All the same experiencing it first-hand has been pretty hard to take.
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Must watch: The ROI of user experience design
This is an accessible and engaging overview of user experience design and the benefits it provides. This video focusses on the importance of defining the value your work can deliver.
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Skype down and crashes on start – how to solve
You may have noticed that Skype has been suffering a number of technical difficulties over the last few hours. These issues have affected their website as well as their desktop applications on both Macs and PC’s.
Follow the specific instructions for your operating system detailed below to try and solve these issues:
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Watch the videos from Digital 2011
Organised by Mairi Robertson of Interactive Scotland, Digital 2011 was held at the SECC in Glasgow. Hopefully this will be the first of many.
The aim of the event was to connect Scotland’s digital and creative industries. Now I couldn’t network if my life depended on it so I can’t comment on the connecting bit but the day’s talks and workshops were certainly interesting.
