The Big Ideas Collective blog entries, within Web design & development

At BIG we're always working with clients to ensure their sites are nice and easy for both visitors AND search engines to browse, and lately we've focussed especially on 'friendly URLs' (Uniform Resource Locators - the available information's 'address' or location). As much as the geeks among us love to see a few IDs, category codes and the like in their website URLs, nothing beats the simplicity of a human readable series of URLs, which relate directly to the content they are displaying.

So you have a new website: Congratulations.
And it has a load of extras in the form of a CMS with additional parsing facilites for a plethora of...

"CAN'T YOU JUST SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE!?!?!?!?"

Welcome to the not-so technical world of your website.
Isn't it about time that us IT type guys made life just that little bit easier for you to look after your website - after all, who knows what better to say about your company than you?

Yes, it’s coming up to Christmas, and no, I’m not encouraging being a scrooge, but if you haven’t already been doing so, you can start thinking about yourself for once!

Surely nothing could be simpler than an email signature - it's only a design thrown into an email. So why, in the age of web-standards and uniformity, is it so tricky to get one stationery design to work in all email clients?