This week, I came across a surprising article on out-law.com. It quoted the EU Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, who has urged internet companies and the W3C to establish a final technical standard for allowing users to control their privacy settings via a do-not-track system by June this year. To me, the …
Website resolutions 2012
This month, a lot of people are concentrating on getting their new year’s resolutions – whether personal or professional – off to a successful start. In keeping with this mood, I’ve put together a list of goals that could help you improve your website in 2012. Link your cookies policy from every page – clearly …
Attending the London Content Strategy Forum
Last night I attended the London Content Strategy Meetup which Magus sponsored. As well as giving a talk about managing content quality on a multi-site, multi-editor web presence, I got to grips with the rather challenging process of “lightning talks” – presentations where the speakers are limited to 20 slides with precisely 15 seconds per …
Handy hints: optimising for Google
I think Google’s blog posts are always a good starting point for site optimisation ideas, and last Thursday’s instalment is no exception. As usual, the post focuses on ongoing changes to search, and there is enough detail to provide a glimpse of what matters to the search engines but not enough to make it easy …
New website, new errors
In the last of our “website lifecycle” series, Magus CEO Simon Lande discusses some things you need to look out for after launching a new website. In the previous post in this series, we discussed how increased insight into the content and quality of your digital assets can smooth the website launch process. But what …
