Google turned thirteen years old today and during that time, not only has it become the world’s favourite search engine but has also spread its reach and a not insignificant influence throughout nearly every area of the internet itself. Everywhere you look on the web you come across something by, associated or owned by Google. [...]

There are lots of blogs and articles around that talk about the growing preference for accessing the internet via mobile devices as opposed to desktops and laptops and they are absolutely right; computers it seems are gradually being relegated to secondary devices in favour of smartphones and tablets. Where computers were once the only gateway [...]

As the use of social media websites continues to grow, so too does the need for businesses to become part of them if they want to remain competitive. Although websites can attain higher search engine rankings through good SEO practices, marketing those websites and extending their reach is often better and more quickly achieved by [...]

I recently read an article about how Amazon is soon to test its new website which they’ve designed with the aim of making navigation much easier than is currently the case. The sheer size of the site has often made navigation quite difficult at times with some visitors occasionally getting lost within its pages so [...]

I came across an interesting little article which talked about a new website design for Amazon.com which is aimed specifically at making it easier for users accessing the site via tablets and the like as opposed to PCs and laptops. This leads me on to the Android-based Amazon tablet which is described in some articles [...]

It’s an achievement whenever a visitor to your site likes what they see enough to make a purchase but frustrating for them on reaching the checkout only to discover that the only payment options on offer is by cheque or via BACs. Amazingly, there are still some businesses albeit smaller and possibly home-run enterprises that [...]

The other day my nephew was browsing a website and called me to ask about a box he’d seen on one of the pages. The box turned out to be a Captcha and I explained to him what their basic function is: to distinguish between human users and computer programs. I’d never really taken any [...]