Google have announced a new infrastructure for their search engine codenamed "Caffeine". They are inviting developers and power users to help test out the new infrastructure which will allow them to "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions".
 

Twitter have released a "search widget" that you can customise and place on your website to show all of the latest "tweets" that have been made on a particular subject.
 

As we've just gone through the process of expiring and renewing some of our domain names, here's a quick guide to the domain renewal process that we've gone through to both expire and renew our existing domain names.
 

Google have released a handy little gadget that you can use on your website to allow users to get driving directions to your office (or any other places that you wish to enter) and embed it in your site with just one line of javascript.
 

Yahoo Search Pad has just been rolled out by Yahoo, and is designed to help you collect and collate internet research that you are carrying out.
 

Along with some other common website design mistakes, you really want to avoid a slow website so checking and improving the speed of a website must be one of the things that you perform when it comes to releasing a new site for a client. We've come up with a quick checklist of some of the things we do before "going live" which you can hopefully incorporate into your own list.
 

Whenever you come up with a new blog post, a new marketing idea or simply a new page on your website, you want to track it to see how well it does and who is talking about it. Using Google Alerts, you can receive an email whenever that page is indexed by Google so you can see exactly who is talking about you!
 

One of the biggest challenges that a new web design company has (ourselves included) is how to drum up new business. Once you've established yourself and have a solid customer base then this isn't so much of an issue as you have solid foundations and lots of people to call on for referrals and recommendations.
 

There are lots of mistakes that people make in web design, especially when it comes to usability. If you make something "hard to do" or "hard to find" then your visitors will usually make the decision fairly instantly that they don't like your site.
 

Designers and developers often like to use cheat sheets (a concise set of notes used for quick reference) as a quick way of looking up a method or a function and seeing how to use it and/or looking at what is does. We've used these quite a bit and they can come in very handy so here's a collection of some of the ones we have bookmarked.
 

Since we installed dasBlog, we've been wanting to create our own theme so that it ties in with the rest of the site. Hopefully, this step by step guide will help you if you ever need to do this.
 

When you create a new website, one of the first and biggest choices you will have to make is to pick a domain name. This isn't actually as easy as it sounds as what you choose could have a major impact on how successful your site becomes.