This is the blog of web developer and designer Andy Walpole.

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Valuable blog posts from February 2010
Thu 25th Feb 2010

There's been some really interesting SEO and web design items that have caught my attention this month.

I usually have about 50 different posts per day sitting in my feed reader and I try to keep abreast of latest developments, which, in this field, really are changing all the time. I brou...

How small businesses view their online strategy
Sun 7th Feb 2010

At the moment I'm putting together a new business plan and I needed some data regarding how the web has affected business strategies. As a member of UK Business Forums I thought I'd ask fellow users to fill out a survey in order to g...

Blog posts that caught my attention this month – January 2010.
Sat 30th Jan 2010

I find dozens of links to blog posts and articles sitting in my Google reader every day. I subscribe to 60 different feeds and I use this as a means of keeping track of latest trends in web design and SEO.

Every time I read an article and think “That'll come I handy in the future. I'll bo...

Using CSS3 box-shadow to create a glow effect
Fri 29th Jan 2010

This is a technique I discovered by accident when creating the Drupal Sunset theme.

The purpose of the box-shadow property is self-explanatory – it creates a shadow around an element.

I've used box-sh...

Review of Flash with Drupal by Travis Tidwell
Thu 28th Jan 2010

A review of another addition to Packt Publications now quite extensive Drupal-related catalogue

I first tried Flash when it was in its Macromedia Version 3 incarnation - it had so many bugs that it should have been the subject of a David Attenborough wildlife do...

Probably the most uninviting hotel website in the world
Mon 18th Jan 2010

Not since the death of animated GIFs and Java applets have I had the misfortune to visit such an appalling hotel website.

No, not every hotel website has the high usability and design standards of Premier Inn.

Tucked away in the corner of German website munich-info.de y...

Guide to using CSS3 border image
Mon 18th Jan 2010

The reason I am writing this guide is that I've read many of the current online tutorials and they are all quite confusing to those first approaching this CSS property.

It's clear as well border-image will be play an increasingly important part in web design as the CSS2.1 border style prop...

10 Chrome Extensions for Web Designers
Fri 15th Jan 2010

If you are using a PC for web design then it's likely that Firefox is your choice of browser while those using Mac's are more likely to use Safari. The new face in the class is Google Chrome.

Google already had a well-established relationship for the Mozilla Foundation so it was a complete ...

The internet 10 years ago this month – January 2000
Tue 12th Jan 2010

It's easy to forget how much the World Wide Web has progressed over the last decade and how seamlessly it has blended in with our everyday activities, but exactly 10 years ago – in the UK at least – all online activity was via dial-up metered access (per minute billing), the most cutting edge browser on th...

Absolutely terrible spelling on legal website
Sun 10th Jan 2010

Connell Associates Solicitors have been in existence for some years now I presume that they are not a Mickey Mouse outfit as they are members of the Law Society; however, their grasp of the English language on their homepage is so appallin...

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