Rather sobering news following a recent Opera MAMA aka Metadata Analysis and Mining Application survey of websites, found only: 4.13% adhere to any sort of web standard: MAMA found that 145,009 out of 3,509,180 URLs passed validation - only 4.13%!. Even though this ratio shows great improvement over the results of previous validation studies, this is a very worrying figure, which shows that there is a lot of Web standards ... Read full entry

Validation: coming soon to a web site near you Ben Buchanan discusses the challenges involved in a recent project to re-write the homepage of Australian IT so as to make it standards compliant, in an interview with Maxine Sherrin published at Web Directions. Ben points out that the bigger the website, and the more third party advertising involved, the greater the overall lead time of the task. I ... Read full entry

Last week I expressed my concerns about the validation errors that Google Adsense code generated on another of my blogs The InterChange Desk. While these errors are not due to any mis-coding on my part, I still pride myself on producing websites that conform to whatever W3C standard (and there are a number) I am working to. My first attempt at designing websites when ... Read full entry

People ask whether I ever plan to monetise disassociated, and if so, whether I'd use Google Adsense as part of a money making strategy. The answer to the first question is yes. In fact the site has been partially "monetised" for sometime, by way of Amazon Affiliate ads, and "featured links", in the right hand hand column, for example. Other ideas are in the pipeline. As to Google Adsense though. ... Read full entry