UKFast Blog & Press Releases - Page 219

First, let me introduce myself. I'm Chris. I spend my days at UKFast weaving PHP pages from cold hard text, fiddling with brain-blendingly complex SQL queries and dancing the mystical dance of CSS. When I'm not dealing with that triumvirate…

This week has seen two of the Net's biggest names clashing over the subject of blogging. There's been a lot of talk about company blogs and how necessary they are. Nicholas Carr started the week by giving his rules for…

I was interested to read Seth Godin's post about investing in meetings as an audience this morning as it's currently quite pertinent to UKFast. It relates in two senses - with internal and external meetings. UKFast is expanding. In order…

I'm interested in people's views on how the increasing range of tlds affects business and consumers online. In particular there's .travel, which attempts to create an online directory incorporating millions of travel websites. As an industry, travel and tourism is…

I am involved in training some new recruits at UKFast this week and I've realised that the subject is so huge that you can't assume what people will know and what they won’t. As we're a hosting company, the core…

There's a running debate over in the creative office here today. The Research and Development team are questioning the Design team on the configuration of images for websites. The question is: Should a designer spend time dividing the image into…

Like most of my generation, I have not written a document without the aid of a keyboard for about 10 years. I remember a strange transition period at University in the mid 90's when I would begin writing essays in…

The Internet Advertising Bureau has set its sights on the B2B market with the news that only one third are currently embracing online marketing. Apparently 63% of respondents say that the Internet will take more of their marketing budget in…

A quick glance at the news this week in the online world throws up questions about the Net's world wide status. France is voting on the threat of an iTunes monopoly, China is reconsidering its online gaming quotients and the…

Every morning I check my RSS feeds and you can guarantee that one name will come up more than any other - but more than that - this company will be mentioned in a positive light nine times out of…