So for those that having seen it yet, YouTube have launched Auto-Captioning for their video content. Mashable have a great article discussing the launch here. This launch is being billed as a way to create greater accessibility for the deaf and the rest of the internet and quite frankly it is. I have a friend who…

I was recently working on a very simple website for a new school that is being built in the near by area, when I came across a very interesting problem in Internet Explorer. The form tag in the header would not render, and as a result the entire formating in IE8 went totally bonkers. The…

I have recently been fine tuning and fixing a few loose ends on a yoga studio website I did the development on. One of the really cool features of the site is the calendar at the bottom of every page. It gives you a really quick idea of whether there is a class and/or workshop…

Matt Cutts has just blogged about the keywords meta tag is not used in Google’s search algorithm. In the article he links to another article about how legal people tend to get wound up about meta tags and the words that are used in them. While he doesn’t mention the eBay case I blogged about recently, I can’t help…

I have just read in the New Zealand Herald that eBay have been found guilty of counterfeiting. After reading the article, I think the ruling has some series consequences for search engine optimisation as what they were found guilty of is a standard SEO practice. With dynamic websites it is common practice to use formulas to…

I’m not sure if you haven’t heard this, actually I’m sure you probably have, but YouTube have announced that they are “.. phasing out support ..” for IE6 and earlier versions. They may not be the only ones, with rumors that Digg and Facebook are seriously considering the same thing. However before we all start…

As a web developer I have a vested interest in Windows 7 being a success. Now I should also mention that I am a bit of a “Apple fanboy”. So why do I want Microsoft’s next operating system to be a success? As this post on Sitepoint displays, the average internet user doesn’t even now what a…