With all the recent publicity given to Google as the Internet’s number one search service, it’s hardly surprising that Microsoft has already started work on re-vamping their MSN search service. Okay, it’s still powered by the Yahoo engine, but according to Microsoft it has been “cleaned up” and the new service mirrors much more the [...]

Most website commissioners are not interested in Web Standards or Web accessibility – that is clear from the results of DRC Research carried out in the UK in 2004. The research highlighted the appalling lack of accessibility of most UK web sites – with 81% labelled by researchers as ‘impossible’ to use by many disabled [...]

“The requested URL /file.html was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.14 Server at www.yourdomain.com Port 80″. Does that look familiar? If you’ve ever accidentally tried to access a page that doesn’t exist, possibly by following an outdated link or by misspelling the name of the page, you’ve probably seen something like the above appear on [...]