If you spend anything more than a few minutes per day on the web like some saddos, you’ll have come across a frustrating ‘404 Page Not Found’ error from time to time, usually from when people leave links pointing to the wrong places and forget to update them.
This bunch of 17 brilliant 404 pages shows us that life can be so much more fun when we even think through the error pages of our sites.
Craven & Murray are Rochdale Opticians, based in Norden, Lancashire, and when they approached us, we helped them to plan and deliver a website that helps to reflect their bespoke and friendly opticians.
We used a similar drop-down menu (see right) to the one here on Peloton Internet, which works well across all browsers and makes the site ‘feel’ a bit more classy and showy, without showing off with needless functionality.
Lots of Search Engine Optimisation planning has been built in too, and we’re very much hoping that the site will pay for itself by bringing in those all-important search engine customers over the coming months.
Wow - that flew by - it’s ten years since the first MP3 player came onto the market. 32mb of Flash storage would have stored a small collection of songs - possibly one CD’s worth if they were encoded well, but it wasn’t much.
Read more on Register Hardware
My first MP3 player was an Archos 20GB monster - I waited and waited until the technology had matured (and til I could afford one!) and still think fondly of this player, which eventually found its way to eBay and some grateful blind purchaser (they were good for blind or partially sighted people because you could download ‘talking’ firmware for them. They were also good for the blind because they looked absolutely dreadful.
Original post found on Reverse Delta
Source of this and full story here
Watching how people use the most popular websites such as Google can be extremely revealing. A large number of users don’t understand the difference between a search engine and the Internet and are unaware of the difference between typing a url or search query in the address bar compared to the search box on Google.
People today are so used to using Google that for some the address bar has become obsolete. It is quicker to type “Amazon” into Google and click on the first result than it is to type www.amazon.com into your address bar.
Google makes huge profits from these navigational searches by allowing advertisers to bid on the names of other websites. Sometimes a site can apply to stop other advertisers bidding on trademarked terms but, as American Airlines is finding out, Google doesn’t always allow this. People could genuinely be searching for American airlines (note the letter case).
The lesson to searchers: You may be feeling lucky, but will you get lucky, or will you just get the highest bidder?
The Lesson to Pay Per Click bidders: Are you sure you’re getting the right traffic to your site?