CompuSkills Web Design Service

FireStats is a system for getting web statistics. You can download it from firestats.cc homepage or you can get it as a WordPress plugin for a blog.
It gives you a fascinating insight into how many hits your pages are getting, which pages are getting accesssed, how they got there, what browsers and operating systems [...]

Two weeks ago we said how we were looking at trialling Expression Web, seeing what sort of sites it produced and how it compared to the likes of Dreamweaver and Bluefish (our current favourites).
Sadly, after two weeks we still cant get into the software well enough to make use of it. This is not a [...]

After committing the cardinal sin of using the “Web 2.0″ phrase in a previous post, I was curious enough to look round some other sites to see what sorts of nonsense there is out there.
By pure chance, I also looked through the logfiles and statistics on several of the sites I have access to and [...]

Short post today - lots of work to keep us all busy, so time is tight. As part of a current project, we were looking for inspiration and came across an excellent photoshop tutorial about designing “web 2.0″ header images. (Yes, the dreaded web 2.0 word, sorry).
The tutorial is really easy to follow and produces [...]

What is a server-side language? Server side languages carry out operations on the remote web server, usually in response to requests sent by the user’s computer. Server side operations can access data or functions that aren’t available to the user. For example, server side languages can serve up dynamic content from a [...]

Hot on the heels of the completed re-design of the Compuskills web site, we have begun an overhaul - rebuild of the parent site at WhyDontYou (most people will be used to seeing the blog there, as the main site has been off line for some time with all pointers on that domain going to [...]

For quite some time now, CSS Zen Garden has been an excellent example of the lengths graphic designers can take webpages with nothing more than CSS.
As a project which is largely open to anyone, it obvious comes up with a mixed bag - some are really good looking sites (such as The Original), some are [...]

As mentioned previously on this blog and elsewhere, we have currently been undergoing a site overhaul on the main Compuskills website.
This has now been (successfully) completed and the site has gone live a few hours ahead of schedule. This also means that the testbed site is no longer functional.
Thank you for your patience.
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What is usability? Everyone agrees that web pages should be easy to use. However, defining usability is something of a battleground. There seem to be as many definitions as there are usability gurus. Some generally useful ideas from the mass of usability material include: Don’t make users scroll sideways to get crucial information. Don’t [...]

As mentioned last week, the Compuskills site has undergone a bit of a makeover, with considerable changes to the backend (the server side PHP) which should make it easier for future maintenance to take place.
Everything has progressed well, (you can see the development in progress on the testbed site) and it looks like the deadline [...]