http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/ News and commentary on web design and search engine optimisation. en-us Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:19:26 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 info@manwahdesign.com (Matt Chan-Pensley) http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/logosmall.gif http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/ 112 68 News and commentary on web design and search engine optimisation. A List Apart has a good article looking at the new legislation regarding website accessibility for disabled users. This article makes several good points with regards to the Disability Discrimination Act. Firstly the Act doesn't specifically mention websites, although the Code of Practice (PDF) does. Also, despite the fact the final part of this Act comes into effect ... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000010.htm After an oddly timed press release on April 1st, Google have promised that their new Gmail launch is no April Fools. In my cynical opinion, this is Googles first attempt to build brand loyalty and to put barriers in the way of people from switching to other search engines. However, it sounds like an interesting proposition with 1GB of ... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000009.htm Following the switch of results at AlltheWeb over to the new Yahoo! search engine (as noted by Pandia and Search Engine Showdown), it appears that Altavista has finally followed suit. It's a shame that AV appears to have lost some of its advanced syntax options, although both Babelfish and the multimedia databases are still accessible. This grand daddy of ... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000008.htm Google has changed it's user interface overnight. The front page now sports a tab-less look and there is a new link to promote their shopping search Froogle. The search results have also undergone a slight change. At least for the time being, the directory listings have disappeared from the results and all keywords from the search are now ... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000007.htm Google have moved their local search into beta from the Google labs experimental area. This is currently a US only service as you need to enter either a US town or zip code in order for it to work. The results are determined predominantly through addresses and phone numbers found on the websites which are then cross-correlated with the yellow ... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000006.htm Welcome to the Manwah Design weblog. The aim is to post only when there is some important news from the world of web design or seo (although all rules are made to be broken!). Time will tell how it turns out... http://www.manwahdesign.com/weblog/archives/00000005.htm