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New Bluehorses cd Thirteen Fires
It's been a long time in the making but my favourite bands new album was launched during the recent Xmas mini tour. A new band web site is also in the making!... more
Is your web designer still using html tables for page layout?
Using HTML tables for page layout is an outdated method, and web browsers have evolved sufficiently to support the correct way of marking up pages using Cascading Style Sheets. What does your web designer do?... more
It’s that Yule time again!
A happy Yule to Blue Dreamer customers, you know who you are! Thank you for your custom, words, and thoughts this past year... more
Building an accessible web site
I've got a web site project in progress that requires a very high level of accessibility for disabled users and this requires a different approach to the site design.... more
Blue Dreamer appears in Channel 4 documentry
Some months ago I was invited by Rentahadge to appear in a TV documentry that was being made about them.... more
Make my logo bigger cream
Web designers humour! This video surfaced in Autumn 2007 and made designers all over the world smile and cringe... more
Measuring web site success
There are many ways to measure how effectively your web site is, how will you measure yours?... more
Why use valid html markup?
Using standards compliant html and css on your site means leaner, faster loading pages, cross browser compatibility, easier updating and are more search engine friendly.... more
Design for your users first
One golden rule of web design is to create for your users and not your own vanity, that 500k Flash animation on your home page may look good to you but frustrate your visitors.... more
Two new sites go live
I've just made live two more sites, www.sheilasteptoe.com is the personal site of TV personality Sheila Steptoe, and www.gogarrett.co.uk is for a freight company in Essex... more
