Web Design & Development

According to a new report by EPiServer, the content management and portal solutions organisation, consumers are becoming less and less tolerant of mobile websites that are under par. Nearly 65% of respondents to the survey, entitled Developing a mobile strategy: how to deliver mobile sites that truly engage, say that they would only give a mobile website up to three chances before moving on to another site. [Read On]

Mobile users are spending more and more time interacting with mobile apps and browsing mobile websites. According to a recent report by Flurry Analytics, the mobile app analytics engine, the time people spend using mobile apps has doubled since this time last year. In June 2010, users spent 43 minutes a day interacting with mobile apps. By June 2011, this figure had rise to 81 minutes a day. [Read On]

Marketing Week Live is nearly upon us – and this year’s event will be supported by a brand new mobile website. The annual industry event is aimed at the UK’s professional marketers, providing an opportunity to learn, network and find new solutions and products. [Read On]

HTC has announced a new website designed to support mobile website developers. HTCdev will bring together tools and resources designed to enable developers to build apps for HTC Sense smartphones. The phone manufacturer announced the initiative at the Upling developer conference in San Diego, USA, last week. [Read On]

Light has been shed on the closer mechanics of mobile SEO after Google recently issued a blog piece about how mobile websites can best interact with search engine crawlers. [Read On]

Microsoft has just announced the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. Included is a 'safety' feature called Tracking Protection which, in principle, is a good idea. Unfortunately, they've added the URL for Google's Analytics service, google-analytics.com, to the list of addresses that user's should be protected from. The feature is turned off by default but including the Google address is bound to encourage users to block it and at the very least sow seeds of doubt about a Google associated domain. [Read On]

HTML5, the name that served to assist Web standards advocacy, has been scrapped only two days after the logo was published. WHATWG decided to implement the name change because of the arising confusion after the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) released their logo. [Read On]

It’s been a big week for digital publishing, with the internet allowing Wikileaks to be disseminated quickly and concisely across the globe. The true impact of this case has yet to be seen, on digital publishing, freedom of speech, and of course the global political scene; however, what this week has shown us is that web design and digital publishing is moving the way we digest and react to news forward faster than ever before. Of course, the Wikileak information online was published in tandem with more traditional press methods around the globe. In five different countries major newspapers were responsible for printing the story, including The Guardian in England and Le Monde in France. [Read On]

This year’s must-have technological gift is undoubtedly the Kinect console for X-Box 360. It builds on the interactive approach developed by Nintendo with their highly popular Wii system, encouraging player interaction with the on-screen display. The technology behind the gaming has the potential to revolutionise the way users’ experience the internet and opens up a wealth of opportunities for the way we approach web design and content. What sets Kinect apart is that it is the first console not to require any form of controller. The Kinect technology effectively makes you the controller, whether you are playing games, watching films or chatting to friends. [Read On]

Google have always been a highly visual company – the irreverent treatment of their logo and emphasis on image search improvement is proof of that - but recently they’ve really upped the ante with visual previews of pages in search results. In a blog post to announce Instant Preview, Google Product Manager Raj Krishnan explained the thinking behind the development: ‘We found that people who use Instant Previews are about five per cent more likely to be satisfied with the results they click’. [Read On]