Web Technology – Claire Regan

CSS Architecture

The Dublin UX Meetup group is a fantastic resource for anyone working in interaction design. Last week, they played host to Dr. John Craddock – Head of Development at Adaptemy who spoke about CSS Architecture and how to write and manage CSS for your application. Dr. Craddock’s talk highlighted the need to refactor your CSS: cut down on bloated […]

Creating Screenshots in Firefox

Since Firefox 16, you can easily take full page screenshots of your active web page. This means no more cropping the edges out in Photoshop or using third party apps to quickly capture what’s onscreen. How to get a screenshot of your entire web page in Firefox: On your keyboard, hold down Shift and F2 […]

The Dark Side of Monitoring and Measurement

There are several ways that unscrupulous companies or digital agencies can immorally obtain or misrepresent information about online engagement. These methods include misrepresentation of their audience or fans and obtaining information using unethical or even illegal means. The right way to go about improving your online presence is to create content that is valuable and […]

Visualising Website Traffic

Following on from my previous post on the many ways in which website traffic data is collected, comes the issue of what to do with that information. Website usage statistics can be retrieved using a variety of methods and similarly, it can be interpreted and analysed using several different models. One of the reasons that […]

How Website Usage is Tracked

As discussed in the last post on the collection of website usage statistics, reviewing website usage statistics is one of the most important tasks for a digital marketer. It is particularly important to be responsive to usability problems online, where users can easily abandon your site or social media channel if it is not performing […]

Collecting Website Usage Information

Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright One of the most powerful items in a digital marketing toolbox is the analysis of website statistics and usage information. The regular analysis of these usage statistics can allow web designers and marketers to […]

Backing Up Content on Social Media

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow morning and Facebook or Twitter had deleted your accounts? Every single post, picture, interaction and conversation…gone. Do you have a regular backup schedule or automated solution for ensuring that valuable data about the relationships your business is cultivating can be restored in such an event? At […]

SOPA: what’s it all about?

The denizens of the Internet have been shaken out of their reveries today, as major players close up shop in protest of the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). SOPA and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) are two controversial bills which have been proposed in the United States in an effort to combat copyright […]

What is Cloud Computing?

There is a lot of controversy and confusion at the moment over the term “cloud computing”. I have attempted to break it down in a simple way so that even laypeople can understand what this revolutionary new concept is all about. Please bear in mind that defining the exact nature of ‘the cloud’ is a […]

1 2

Posts navigation