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PayPal – Like Kissing A Frog Without The Fairytale?

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There’s nothing more annoying that not having access to your own money. It’s even more frustrating when that access is blocked for no good reason, and without warning. It’s a problem that can rear its head far more often on the internet. For all the potential the internet has to increase transparency, when a problem …

How To Ruin A Perfectly Decent Website

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Yesterday I tweeted an article about what must be one of the worst websites in the world. It must be seen to be believed. Yet although such terrible sites exist, a far more common problem in web design is sites […]

The Golden Ratio – A Basic Intro And A Pedantic Question

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It’s cool to know that when you put together a web page design you’re still using inspiration from two and half millennia ago. Yes, that blog you’re coding is drawing on the principles that went into the design of the […]

No, I Can’t Give You A Ballpark Figure!

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How much does a car cost? What should I pay for a holiday? I’d like to buy a house, what’s a good price? Without further context, there’s no way that you can answer these questions. Yet freelancers are asked a […]

iTunes, Not Facebook, Made Rage Number One

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I’ll admit to a certain sense of glee that ‘Killing In The Name Of’ made it to Christmas number 1 in the UK. Forget about the fact that the campaign meant Sony had both the number 1 and number 2 […]