If you’re thinking of developing a website for your business or organisation, you can use Google to find a few articles with standard boilerplate advice about using wireframes, the linear-thinking alternative, the Project Initiation Document (PiD) with a conclusion that you should really be digging the dynamic and hip agile approach to planning your work. Combine this with the expensive [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bootstrapping’
Updating websites every day (without too much work)
Got a website? Feeling guilty because you’ve not fed it lately? While it’s probably not the end of the world, unchanged websites soon slip down search-engine rankings. The digital version of tumbleweed doesn’t look good at the best of times. Perhaps, worst of all, if your reason for neglecting it is that you’re too busy, [...]
RSS + lateral thinking
If there is one bit of technology that I would urge every non-techie to get their head around, it’s RSS – ‘really simple syndication.’ This is a facility that most modern websites have added to them allowing visitors to take bits of content and use them in a variety of ways. The most obvious use [...]
MP’s websites should save MP’s time – and make their constituents happier’
In heavily contested constituencies, most sitting MPs have a good website. That’s part of the reason that many of them were returned in 2010. But how many MP’s websites help them to step up the quality of their work as an elected representative? Speaking to MP’s researchers (having shared an office with an MP’s team [...]
Bootstrapping skills – mailmerge
This is a short post about a subject that someone in your office needs to know about. A basic understanding of how mailmerge works, along with a bit of lateral thinking can help you get your information out very effectively – and save you loads of work. It’s as useful a bit of knowledge as [...]
