Author Archives: timcooke

EU Directive Re “Cookies”

July 6, 2011 – 11:04 am

And not the tasty chocolate chip type either! Legislation The official ICO guidance on cookies issued only on 9th May which came into effect on 25th May. This legislation had not passed into UK law at the time of writing (07/06/2011) due to the usual public sector delays; In essence then, the visitor to any [...]

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What’s New With Browsers?

February 23, 2011 – 11:47 am

Tim Has The Latest……… Whilst few people mourned the passing of Windows Vista, many more will regret that XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft security updates (unless you have version SP3). After running a range of different but concurrent Operating Systems (OS) including Windows 2000, 98 and 98 SE, Millennium, baby XP was [...]

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Familiar brands and that instant trust

August 4, 2010 – 10:52 am

Tim’s Views on the latest Scams There has been much talk around the office this month on branding and design and this got me thinking about the trust element of branding. When you think about it, the power a brand can have is really quite impressive, a simple visual logo or logo mark  and a [...]

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The Big August Getaway

June 23, 2010 – 3:22 pm

More than any other time of year, August tends to bring the most support calls from people who don’t ususally deal with the company website, domain names, company email. This isn’t a problem until we start to ask questions that more often than not, can’t be answered for a numebr of reasons.

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Is It Time to Retire Old Browsers?

April 23, 2010 – 6:18 pm

One of the biggest issues we face when designing websites these days is that of “Old Browsers” and how websites look and work. Currently the two most popular worldwide are, Internet Explorer – latest version IE8 was launched Spring 2009 – and Mozilla Firefox users should be on Firefox 3.6 (its totally free!)

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