Innovative Future Web Design

Actinic have released their latest report into Ecommerce. It reveals some interesting figures regarding ecommerce which I’ve summarised below.

Essentially Ecommerce “etailer’s” now benefit from significant increases in profitability after a number of years of stability. Ecommerce is also now seen to be significantly cheaper and web designers are now being sought after to build online stores for their clients. However only one in 10 retailers has a “transactional” website (i.e. one that can take online payments) and of those retailers
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As you may have noticed already I’m presently testing out adding shopping cart functionality to the articles area of the site-and perhaps later progressing that to cover the whole site. However there are a few glitches here and there at the moment-such as the positioning of the cart/products/checkout links on all the pages. They shouldn’t be at the top in the header-or if they are by the time you read this they shouldn’t be showing as they are.

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I’ve been busy working on the latest project-though I’ll admit it went live some time ago but we’ve been tweaking it and I’ve been testing out some products for other personal projects in the pipeline.

Rive Music.com is a brochure site to promote Jane Coulcher, a respected flautist and harpist, to the wedding and events markets. A previous incarnation of
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It’s the season of goodwill and giving so Joomlashack is holding a competition for their customers and visitors to their site to nominate a charity an eligible charity to win a free Joomlashack Custom Website or US$1000 cash. I’m sure people would tell me not to promote other web designers but in the spirit of the competition, the season and the open source community which Joomla is part of I have to give this gesture a mention.

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For a long time you’d have needed to don a hard hat and duck behind the sofa if you asked any self respecting web designer what they thought of the Micro$oft home page as they launch into a rant about Web Standards, code validation, tableless code and best practice. So how’s the new Micro$oft home page fare…

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Just a quick note to warn that there’s a new variant of phishing emails going around.

It seems they’ve moved on from Banks to HM Revenue & Customs. Emails are being sent out supposedly from “HMRC Premier Services” informing you that you’re eligible for a tax rebate of £70. They direct you to a web site where you enter your National Insurance number, tax code, name and address and debit or credit card and they’ll refund it directly to your credit card account.

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Further to An explanation…..or 2…..or 3 we got very fed up with our previous hosts, who shall remain nameless for fear of giving them free advertising.

However I’m pleased to be able to confirm we have moved hosts and we are now with Vidahost Read the rest of this entry »

You may have noticed (it’s pretty obvious from the posting dates too) that no posts have been made in the last month or so and I felt it needed a bit of explanation…..
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As mentioned in Google Page Creator Beta I said I was going to be part of the Beta testing program and promised to post some of my conclusions. It’s taken me longer than anticipated with a couple of bits of work and some huge hosting and server issues which have kept me off here for a month but here are my thoughts…..

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Recent Projects

I’ve recently been testing e-commerce software for ease of setup and customisation and the ease of use for the end user to maintain their shop.  More of that will come in a later post.

Having carried out that project I’m proud to say I’ve been invited to join the Google Page Creator Beta testing program to help them test out the features, functionality, ease of use, standards compliance and accessibility issues before public release.

Google Page Creator will be an online tool to make it easier for people to create and publish their own web sites.   Read the rest of this entry »