The Hind Leg

03
Feb

“Less is More” Underpins Website Performance Optimisation

by Alex

Stakeholders and customers want more data, with more variety, in significantly less time. However making sure this information, visual data and increased opportunities for interaction can be accessed in a split second and without compromise is a complex process.

30
Jan

Google+ Now Integral to Google Search Results

by aaron
Google Changing The Search Landscape With 'Search Plus Your World'

Google has updated the way it returns search results with the launch of 'Search Plus Your World' this month. ‘Search Plus Your World’ finds relevant content that’s been shared with you privately along with matches from the public web, all mixed into a single set of listings.  It offers three new features:

25
Jan

The Rise of HTML 5 and Fall of Flash

by jeremy
The “Noughties” are well and truly over, so where does that leave Flash?

Adobe Flash grew from its introduction in 1996 to achieve almost complete market penetration at the end of the decade affectionately called “the Noughties”. Microsoft, designers, developers and even Disney embraced Flash as the best way to enhance websites, to add visual effects and create a more interactive user experience.

23
Jan

10 Famous Drupal Websites

by aaron
Did you know that some of the most visited  websites in the world are built on Drupal?

DogHouse Media sites are built in Drupal, the open source framework that offers more flexibility, allowing us to more effectively customise solutions to meet our client’s needs. We are recognised as leaders in Drupal development and we leverage off the Drupal development community to bring our clients the most powerful and up to date web technology.

17
Jan

Can we say good-bye to Internet Explorer 6?

by samb

There is a saying in the development world that Internet Explorer 6 haunts our nightmares.

Launched exactly 10 years ago, Internet Explorer 6 was released as the default browser package with Windows XP and as a result became the default on many individual and corporations desktops to search the web. In addition to being slow, out of date, prone to attack and inefficient, Internet Explorer 6 also renders HTML incorrectly which creates a raft of back-end challengers for web developers.

16
Jan

X.Commerce - Ebay’s Promise For A Revolution In The Online Marketplace

by jonathan

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, ebay launched their new open platform X.Commerce. This launch followed ebay’s purchase of Magento a few months ago to serve as the e-commerce backbone of it's new platform. X.Commerce is described as a one stop shop that aims to bring together all of the commercial strengths of the ebay family of products in an open, new and innovative distribution channel; offering greater choice and access in the marketplace.

05
Jan

A Guide To 'New' Twitter

by aaron
A Guide to 'New' Twitter

Recently Twitter has started rolling out a new design for users and more importantly, enhanced  pages for brands. Twitter starting implementing the new designs in Mid December  2011 for personal accounts while only select brands such as McDonlads, Dell, Nike, Disney and a few others were able to utilise the upgraded brand pages.

21
Dec

This Week In Search News

by aaron

Google Tests Its Hotel Finder Atop Search Results

Over in the US the "Hotel Finder" ad, listed as a comparison ad, which is separated very slightly from the regular AdWords occupies premium space at the top of Google’s search results and pushes hotel ads and organic listings further down the page.