Digicommentary

Just What You're Looking For

Isn't it nice to walk into your local coffee shop and just say "the usual" to get the white chocolate mocha Frappuccino with an extra shot you love so much? Since it seems like you’re at the café more than home spending half your wage on coffee, you expect the barista should know who you are and what you like. Why should your online customers expect anything less?  Why shouldn’t they feel like a valued, familiar customer, when they come back to your site the second, fifth or tenth time?

Resize That Photo

"There’s a problem with the web page; it takes too long to load." It’s something we frequently hear that often has a simple fix.

Simpler Is Greater Than Greater

Albert Einstein was once quoted saying “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” 

This design philosophy is a reason why companies like Apple are so successful. They offer the consumer a little bit of choice and personalisation in all their products but ultimately the products are very limited yet incredibly easy to use.

Why You Should Have a Modern Browser

When you work with the web daily, there are things which give you 'groan' moments. A moment where you can't help but feel sorry for those less 'browser-endowed'. If you are reading this using an older browser, you are probably interested in what a modern browser can offer. You could take our word that newer browsers are better and just upgrade, but read on if you need convincing.

So Long 2011...

It’s that time of year again when we leave the safety of our shady, air-conditioned office and head out for some sun, surf and Christmas pudding!

2011 was a good one for us with some big projects on and company growth.

A big thanks to all our clients and readers and we hope you have a great Christmas and New Year! We’ll see you again in 2012, stronger than ever, with a couple of new faces in the office.

Also, keep your eyes peeled for a shiny new website!

jQuery - Where to Now?

jQuery will be six years old soon and while it has taken a few years for it to go mainstream, it has now become almost standard issue in websites and web applications.

So the question is - what’s next now the buzz has died down?

Early Days of Social BPM - Impact or Hype?

In the digital industry, where the bar keeps rising, process improvement is critical to keeping ahead of the game. The problem is that outside the small realm where management, business analysis and technology intersect, little is revealed about the exponential improvements in process-related standards and technologies.

Real-Time Web

The web has had radical changes in its short history. One of the biggest changes came with the widespread adoption of a technique called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) in around 2004-2005

Automating Website Tests

One of the major issues with testing for the web is that there are now so many different web browsers and different versions of the same browsers which people choose to use.

How to Make a Sitecore Control Display Barcodes

This blog post is a bit more technical than what we usually post and describes how you can create a web control for Sitecore to display any data from the current item in a slightly different way. In this case we will work with creating a barcode from its text value.