Monthly Archives: September 2009

Helping make the web a nicer place, one site at a time

I bought motorcycle insurance from ebikeinsurance.co.uk, and they asked me for my feedback on there website. I gave them free web development advise, how nice am I?
“On widescreen monitors the questions and answers are too far apart and makes it difficult to see which answer box relates to which questions. [...]

The Facebook Problem

Facebook is a really useful service which I use a lot to keep up with friends that have moved away, I even have my dad added on it. There is a huge privacy conundrum in its current state due to the way applications are given free reign with data.
If [...]

How to waste time and money, when trying to save both

I’m a Web Developer, if you didn’t know (what? You knew that already? Ahh, that’ll be because it’s written on most pages…) and as part of that lucky role I have to make square pegs fit round holes. Most of that task is focused on making sure that new web [...]

The problem with using the Google Maps API for UK addresses

I love the Google Maps API. Except when using it for UK based addresses. There is a big problem with any app created using the Google Maps API – UK postcodes will NOT be processed, worse still, they return errors.
To give some background on the issue, The Royal Mail own [...]