http://www.ashyoung.org Web development & design at its best Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:00:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've still got some Christmas cheer left in you then you should check out the Decca Christmas takeover that Evoluted put together in December. I hope everyone is having a cracking Christmas break! http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/12/decca-christmas-takeover/ At Evoluted we've recently been advertising for a couple of new web developer positions and the range of responses has been surprising - some good, some bad, some very, very bad. As this was at the front of my mind I thought I'd write a few tips on how to maximise ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/09/how-to-get-an-interview-as-a-web-developer/ The iPhone is a powerful piece of technology, that's not the first time you've heard such a statement and it won't be the last. The iPhone is undoubtably here to stay especially since it has become ubiquitous. Over the last week whilst travelling in Iceland I've seen more iPhones than ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/08/iphone-application-development/ Earlier in the week I had an interesting meeting with a new potential client who we’ll call Bob for argument’s sake. Bob and I were discussing how he found Evoluted and one thing he said really surprised me. "Some people I called for referrals refused to talk to me, apparently the ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/08/would-your-clients-gush-about-you/ I've just finished watching the video of Seth Godin talking at the Business of Software 2008, certainly something every business owner should watch. You can't fault anything he says though, it really does make sense. I even learnt that Charles Darwin was the grandson of Josiah Wedgwood! http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/08/seth-godin-at-business-of-software-2008/ Technorati has just released a new service called Twittorati, tracking the Twitter posts of the top 100 bloggers. At first glance it appears to be another service cashing in on the popularity of Twitter, collating the thoughts of the top 100 bloggers. Time will tell whether Twitterati ever becomes more ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/08/twittorati-new-from-technorati/ This week saw the official launch of a new service from Evoluted designed to help you track your website’s position in all the major search engines – SEO Tracking. The project has been a joy to work on as I honestly believe it’s a useful product, something that will make ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/08/tracking-your-search-engine-optimisation-results/ Whenever we’re doing search engine optimisation work on client sites one of the biggest issues we face is duplicate content pages. Many content management systems create several versions of a page with the same content, as there are many instances when this is required.  This can however cause problems with ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/07/canonical-url-tag-dealing-with-duplicate-content/ After a week of downtime I've got finally got the site back online on a different domain with a slightly different look. Sometime on Monday the previous site ashyoung.net was taken down by UK2 as the Wordpress install had been hacked. This is partially my fault as I should have ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/07/incompetent-uk2/ Previously I’ve been using Ta-da List from 37Signals to keep track of all the various jobs I’ve got to do, either at the office, at home or on the road. I chose Ta-da List as it was incredibly simple, just a list of tasks you could tick off. After while ... http://www.ashyoung.org/2009/07/mooing-marvellous-online-task-management/