http://blog.web-empire.co.uk Creative Web-Consultancy Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:58:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here at Web-Empire we pride ourselves on digging out useful information that can help you with your technological and business endeavors. This week we have found an excellent web-site called http://www.startingasmallbusiness.org.uk/. This site covers much of the nuts and bolts of starting and running a business and, much to ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=77 Or Why valid HTML and CSS are useful versatile tools and not to be feared One of the things writers often ask when setting up a website is about the layout - coming from print design backgrounds generally they want everything rigidly laid out in certain colours, spacings, fonts and sizes. ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=72 Here at Web-Empire we have been watching for news of the fabled Chrome Operating System from Google. With rumours that it might take on Microsoft and the like we thought we would delve into the subject abit more and share it with you: The recent news about Google's Chrome OS ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=67 Here at Web-Empire we have chosen to honour Grace Hopper for the first ever Ada Lovelace Day. For those of you who do not know what this is all about you might want to read last weeks post. Although Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, her work in the field was ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=59 Tuesday March 24th 2009 is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging about women we admire in technology. Why should such a day interest us? Is it not sexist? Why is it needed? It interests us here at Web-Empire because a) it'd about blogging, b) Ada was pretty much ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=57 Twitter is micro-blogging, a cross over between blogging and instant messangers such as ichat and MSN. It is also considered to be a type of social networking. Twitter was founded in 2006 and has been growing in popularity, especially in the last few months (to the extent that we ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=52 The weekend saw the second Tech Adventure at the Trinity Arts Centre in Bristol - though the organiser pointed out that it was technically the third, but the first one happened a bit too long ago. Web-Empire was in attendance at both this one and the one in 2008. This one saw ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=45 New businesses struggle generally for the first two years of their life so if your company or business is in the infant stage how can you increase its chances of survival? We here at Web-Empire have been looking into this in the hope of aiding our customers and in doing so ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=37 The financial system is complex and, to a certain extent, chaotic. Here at Web-Empire we feel that those doing the financial modeling failed to predict the current economic crisis (aka the "credit crunch") due to several factors. One of these factors is the weather and though we would like to ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=33 Here at Web-Empire this microprinter project has come to our attention and we thought it looked like the sort of thing we should be letting you all know about. They are using reciept printers connected to the internet to print out select informations, such as your to-do list for the day ... http://blog.web-empire.co.uk/?p=30