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Ever wondered how your website performs in terms of accessibility?

No, I hear some of you say. Well perhaps you should. Apart from the legal implications of  having an inaccessible website, you may well be losing out on a fairly large percentage of your potential customers.

Making your website as accessible as possible also has the side effect of improving your site’s SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), which is never a bad thing!

To see how your site performs, take a look at Cynthia Says. This is an automated test that checks a web page for accessibility issues referencing the WCAG guidelines (priority 1, 2 and 3). Although any automated test like this isn’t foolproof, it can certainly make you aware of any glaring errors that your site may have with regards to accessibility.

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After recently being nagged by my wife to make her a website for her new business venture, I finally got round to it last weekend. Her site is called Type Assist.

Now, there is nothing clever about building a site from scratch within a day. That is not the point of ths article. The point that I am making is that, from a web designer’s perpective, having the clients content and images available from the beginning of a project can speed up the build time enormously!

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Hello people.

This is just a mini rant about people who ask for web design services, receive the work but fail to pay for it. [Read more →]

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Finally, after what seems an eternity, I have got round to launching the new design for Elan Web.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It is ElanMan in his brown tights! I hope that you like the little fella.

Please feel free to let me know what you think of ElanMan and his site by commenting on this post.

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