Wordpress, for those four in the back row who don’t know, is the highly popular open-source blogging platform thankfully made by this guy. Fast forward a couple years, and Wordpress is going from strength to strength, having just beaten the likes of Drupal and Joomla as the ‘best open source CMS‘. (more…)
As I recently commented on Twitter, the Google Creative lab crew recently posted a shared slideshow showcasing
87 cool things that, from their perspective, was stuff ‘worth knowing about’. (more…)
‘What do you think? Should I focus on SEO?’ A friend and colleague asked me this question recently, interested in breaking out of their current web publishing role and exploring some new, exciting options in the industry to keep interested. I replied with my usual garble about SEO – that it’s *not* something to focus on – IMO good SEO starts and ends with good code and good content. So instead I got all anthropological. (more…)
Argos. Clearly doing well as the UK’s most popular ‘catalogue showroom retailing’ store in the UK. More than 700 stores, 130m customers and £4.3b in sales in 2008 isn’t bad. They also take 26% of their sales online, aided by an Argos catalogue found in 18m households across the country. Not bad for a chain who relies on a strictly ’self-serve’ philosophy that doubles as a business model… but they could do it so much better. (more…)
