Welcome to the internet home of web designer, developer, pilot person and Cumbria dweller Dave Sparks.
I happen to spend a bit of time doing online surveys, whether they’re for website feedback or market research or, well, anything else.
Whilst I haven’t done any in depth research I’ve certainly noticed a lot of basic mistakes that are really annoying! So here’s a few that you should avoid and you should make your surveys easier for people to fill in and that in turn should improve the quality of your results. Continue reading
Just in case you haven’t had enough of reading about emails here then head over to Six Revisons and check out my guest post 10 Definitive Tips for Writing Captivating Emails. Continue reading
Well I’ve been doing this web design blogging for a month now. Sure I’ve been working in web design and development for years and I’ve blogged before occasionally keeping fifthandlast.com updated but this is my first time blogging about web related topics. So what have a learnt? A few things actually but here’s 5, mostly learnt from buggering something up. Continue reading
When I started writing on this blog I thought to myself “don’t churn out loads of IE6 posts”, well, I let myself get a little indulgent and wrote one and since then one thought has occurred to me reading people’s anti IE6 comments and all the bring down IE6 websites. A lot of them have quite simply missed the point of the whole thing.
I’m sure we can all agree that IE6 is not a good browser, that it should be gotten rid of and that until Microsoft unplug support it will still be around, but you shouldn’t stop supporting it because YOU don’t like it. According to browser statistics from October Firefox has surpassed IE6 in terms of users but a quick scroll down shows a whopping 23.30% of the market share still sits with IE6! That’s nearly a quarter of internet users still using IE6, sad and annoying – yes, but can you really turn away that many users simply for using a rubbish browser?
So you should really be asking who are you designing for? Are you designing for you and all your colleagues using Safari on the Mac or are you designing for the rest of the world? To reach as many people as possible? Continue reading
It’s 10 years this week since the film Fight Club was released, if you haven’t seen it why are you here? Why aren’t you on Amazon buying it?
To celebrate I’ve put together this wallpaper of one of my favourite quotes from the film which you can download. I think the best thing to do is get yourself a black eye (or use your girlfriend’s makeup), put the wallpaper onto your office machine and then glare at everyone who walks past. Continue reading