To grow our site’s reach and enhance its content, every employee writes a blog post each month. After starting in August, I’ve now reached a full half dozen posts! Here’s a recap of what I’ve said so far…
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Canvas, SVG and HTML5 – Flash Killers?
As a search marketing agency, Epiphany’s blog often centres on Google, social media like Facebook, and other search engine-related stuff. My first post was slightly away from that topic and into the murky world of online illustration.
I explored the ways people are replacing Flash with HTML5 canvas and SVG, and how you can use these tools to create better, more interactive websites.
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Evri.com: a New Way to Search
For November, I found a new search engine that offers a ‘semantic search’ – not just scoring web pages but grouping them according to who or what they represent. Searching for a keyword brings up a collection of blog posts, images and news reports.
It’s a useful addition to the already crowded search engine market, and gives users a fresh way to look at results.
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Going Full Frontal
An additional November post! I attended the Full Frontal Javascript Conference in Brighton. I thought it would be useful to write up my experiences from the conference in a blog post.
It was a great conference, I learned a lot and made some great new contacts.
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Epiphany Infographic – It’s Been A Great Year
One of the innovations we’ve introduced at work is the concept of an interactive infographic, and at the end of the year I took an advert that we ran in the Drum magazine and made it animated. This was the result.
It showcases some of the animations possible in jQuery – scrolling, scaling, rattling and lots more.
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Should You Get Into Mobile App Development
One of the areas I’m focusing on in 2011 is mobile development: whether it’s mobile versions of websites; web apps to work on mobiles; or fully-fledged mobile apps.
In this post I explain the reasons why mobile applications are still worth getting into, even in such a crowded marketplace.
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Not All Web Browsers Are Created Equal
I thought it was time to explain one of the fundamentals of web browsing: what a browser is and how your choice of browser can change your browsing experience.
There’s a long way to go before the wider web audience gets a handle on the browser choice, but hopefully posts like this might help a few people make better decisions about how to surf the net.
It’s been an interesting time, with lots of new stuff to learn and to share – here’s to the next six months!