Flash Replacement can be an excellent addition to your website. When implemented correctly it offers a great win-win outcome – your users have an improved visitor experience, and the Search Engines can index the complete content of your page.

But implemented poorly and your site could be on the receiving end of a penalty, or worse still – an outright ban.

Gears is a client-based browser-extension that allows you to access online data while offline. My first use for Gears is to vanquish some of the unread posts currently clogging up my feed reader. And I wont have to be online to do so….

Use Javascsript well and you get some of the best web-based applications like Gmail and Google Reader.

Use Javascript where you should really be using plain HTML? Well here’s a nice $65m example that teaches a good lesson.

Hand on heart, this is one of the biggest shockers I’ve ever come across.

You probably wont know what all the fuss is about. But believe me when I say that this is going to go into a text book someday. And it won’t be under a ‘best’ title.

Roam4Free eh? Sounds compelling – something that everyone who roams wants.

I think Pat is on to an absolute winner. And with a couple of tweaks to the website I think this will become even more of a no-brainer for customers.

But is my advice any good? You decide (and there’s a free link for anyone who can figure out what I’m thinking at the end )

A study into the Accessibility of major Government, Public and Political websites.

The full study is available for download from within this post.

Very interesting find by SEO by the SEA. It appears that your browser is sharing your search history with all and sundry.

The full results from the accessibility and standards compliance analysis of all websites short-listed for the 2006 Golden Spiders awards.

Notes to accompany my analysis.

Here are the results for those websites short-listed in categories 13 – 16.

These results cover websites short-listed in categories 9 through 12.

This is the second batch of results for the analysis of the Golden Spiders short-listed websites.

This sample includes the Best Web Design Agency category.

The Golden Spiders are billed as Ireland’s ‘Oscars’ for the Internet industry. With over 100 websites nominated I decided to take a look at the accessibility and coding standards of each site.

Here’s the first batch of results.

Could this User Interface be the future of blog commenting?

Check out this innovative UI built on Yahoo’s User Interface Library.

Well this is definitely my last post about Dublin Coastal Development and Funda Ireland, whose website finally went live today without a bang.

I opened my RSS reader this morning to find that Google had completely renovated the place. And I’m not talking a lick of paint here.

You may or may not have heard of Thomas Fuchs’ Script.aculo.us which is a Javascript effects library written on top of Sam Stephenson’s popular Prototype library.

Well the new Gucci site is built on top of these excellent Javascipt libraries and you may be interested in taking a look.

Previously invite-only, Google Analytics has now opened to the masses for business.