To Flash or not to Flash
Posted by: Owen on Wednesday, 20th Jun, 2007
“Flash is a great way to enhance a website”. I think the operative word in that sentence is the word enhance. Flash can lend itself really well to add those dynamic touches to a website and if used well and make a real difference between a boring site and an exciting one. Take http://chic.edu/ for [...]
Ohh .. Silverlight !
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 16th Apr, 2007
So, has Microsoft finally found the key to breaking up Flash’s dominance of rich web experiences? I sincerely hope so, I’m just allergic to Flash.
Anyway, I’ve come across an exciting post on Tim Sneath’s Blog announcing SilverLight, which is going to be the new name for WPF/E. It’s Microsoft’s play into the cross-browser, cross-platform, rich [...]
Play Snake
Posted by: Owen on Tuesday, 9th Jan, 2007
Remember Snake? You know, the game where you direct the snake around the screen, eating food and growing longer until you run into a wall or yourself? My old Nokia had a monochrome version of the game I could play for hours.
Anyway .. try an online version .. here
The 5 Biggest Mistakes
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 14th Jan, 2005
Sometimes, something pops into my spam folder that is actually quite interesting. This morning I received The 5 Biggest Mistakes Almost All Web Designers Make namely:
Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash — Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually decreased [...]
