We’ve recently launched the latest version of The BMC website (http://www.thebmc.co.uk) and we’ve had some great feedback. One of the ideas to motivate and incentivise the staff to write articles was to provide analytics for each article right in the CMS. That way they could easily see how popular their article was without having to [...]

You may or may not be familiar with the concept of tropes; according to the website devoted to such things, www.tvtropes.org, Tropes are “devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.” In other words, tropes give viewers a reference point – some sort [...]

Once again it’s time for us to up sticks and relocate the HQ of Evolutia. To be fair we’re not moving very far (over the road) and we’re still saying in the same science park – Manchester Science Park that we have grown up in, still it’s a logistical nightmare. This will be the third [...]

Apple released iOS 5 yesterday with over 200  new features. To upgrade your iPhone 4 “Just connect your device to your Mac or PC and follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes.” or so Apple will have you believe; unfortunately for the swarms of people with upgrade issues it’s not quite so simple. In my instance, [...]

I’ve recently been developing an online EPOS system for Shade Station to use on iPads and Macs in their new flagship store and came across a few problems that I initially thought would be pretty simple to solve as “plenty of people would have done it before” but when it came to searching to see [...]

“A consumer is not a moron. She’s your wife. Don’t insult her intelligence, and don’t shock her.” -David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising, 1981 David Ogilvy was a fairly clever chap. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that most of his views were so prophetic he may have been some kind of wizard. [...]

JavaScript frameworks are a godsend. Before we had the likes of Prototype, MooTools and jQuery doing anything in JavaScript was tedious and painstaking. So tedious and painstaking that unless it wasn’t anything more complicated than hiding an element I probably wouldn’t have bothered. Then along came the frameworks, no longer did we have to check [...]

I have recently started the development of a social networking site for gamers. The designs for Gameaface – as christened by our client – are complete and signed off ready to be coded. Building the site on top of a social networking framework makes sense, but which framework to use. After looking through various frameworks, [...]

Google have recently announced that they will be enforcing their new Google Product specification and policy changes on the 22nd September 2011. What this means for anyone who feeds products up to Google’s Merchant Centre is that if your feed does not comply by the 22nd September, Google will take action against you, most likely [...]

Google recently added reporting of site speed to Analytics and further to Tom Critchlow’s post Google Analytics Now Tracks Page Load Speed, I have looked at the implications, use and shortfalls of the new site speed stats. Adding site speed metrics into Analytics implies that Google is going to give more weight to site speed in [...]