Category: websites
Google I/O day 1 – WebM, Wave and Chrome Web Store
Image by erikeldridge via Flickr The Google IO conference began today, and several announcements were made this morning. Google has open-sourced VP8 video codec and rolled it into a projected called WebM. This change will help browsers finally standardize on an open video format to replace Flash video on the web. Google Wave is now available…
Subdomains and multiple web hosts
Aaron writes about subdomains, explaining how they work and how they can be used to properly brand multiple web hosts with the same domain. Included in this post is a real-world example of a website distributed among three web hosts that uses subdomains to create a seamless user experience on one website.
Brand your blog
This week, we’ve examined domain names and email addresses as they relate to your brand. In today’s third installation of our Internet branding series, we’re going to take a look at your weblog. The same concepts that apply to your domain names and your email addresses absolutely apply to your blog. Like email addresses, it’s…
Selecting domain names
Your domain is your brand. Promote your brand by selecting an appropriate domain name.
Capital One’s accessibility fail
Image by taberandrew via Flickr The current website and interface for financial institution Capital One suffers from some accessibility issues. While its source code suffers a little from divitis and classitis (using the DIV and CLASS (X)HTML elements excessively for layout purposes), by far the most annoying problem is that the site requires users to…