Blog News and comments from the team on Jack Marlow, Truss, and our clients

Hi. I'm Kieran Morrissey.

Two and a half years ago, I started this business with Mark Stevens. As well as being a 50% shareholder and director, I built our network, wrote the software we build our websites with, and have handled our more technically challenging projects.

Last week, I bought the other half of the company.

Since the beginning of 2009, Jack Marlow has built hundreds of websites, grown from three to six (sometimes seven) people in the office here, and we now haul a pretty serious volume of data, traffic, and business for our clients each month.

Internet Explorer 6 is a web-browser which was released in 2001. That's 10 years ago! 10 years might not seem like a long time, but the internet has changed a lot in the last 10 years.

Internet Explorer 6 was a great web-browser in its day (and it really was much better than its predecessors!), but that day has long passed.

Last week, Microsoft launched their IE6 Countdown website: it contains some shiny graphics and information about how and why you should move away from Internet Explorer 6.

If your life is anything like mine, chances are you use a large number of online services which each need a password for security. You may have dozens and dozens of passwords, and it's pretty much impossible to remember more than a few different ones for your most frequently used services: let alone the ones you log in to only a few times a month or year.

Password Reuse.

A common strategy for dealing with password overload is to use the same (or very similar) username and password combinations for every service. That way, there's not so much to remember.

Although Twitter is often dismissed as a tool used to tell people about their lunches, the use of twitter during the worst of the flood event was incredible. Information was available on Twitter as it was happening and was used to coordinate evacuations and rescues. Although some hoax information was spread through twitter, on the whole twitter was a fast and efficient way for people in crisis to obtain information and communicate.

More disappointing was the use of this disaster for self-promotion. I saw several people offering to donate in return for “retweets” on Twitter or “likes” on Facebook; understandably, there was also a lot of backlash for that sort of behaviour.

You can pay a lot for SEO – but what can you learn, right now, in one minute? An ongoing series.

When Google or another Search Engine indexes your website (looks through it and stores information about your website for when someone does a search) it will follow all of your links to read all of the information on your pages.

A good way to ensure that the search engine sees all of the pages on your website is to provide a sitemap to the search engine. A good Content Management System will build and update a sitemap for google to read automatically.