Don’t let SEO and UX take precedence over a common sense approach

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and User Experience (UX) are two things I know some stuff about. I don’t claim to be an expert on either, so I’m not going to set up a blog on them. Well, maybe user experience. And if I’m being honest, a UX blog from me would probably end up being [...]

Whose idea was it to stop using page numbers?

Back in 2005, I wasn’t really doing much online. I had a blog that hardly anyone was reading, a CMS that hardly anyone was using, and some music that hardly anyone was hearing. Not much has changed since then, except for getting 5 years older, and perhaps too many years more cynical than my chronological [...]

The paywall: a user experience nightmare

The Times has just installed The Great Paywall of China; a method they hope will bring in revenue and revitalise an industry in which the physical goods (newspapers) have been under threat from the online versions. Check out a bit more on the paywall over at the Guardian: Will the paywall work? Elsewhere, Londoners have almost [...]