Politician & MP for Inverclyde, David Cairns (RIP), recently visited the Hobo offices for a few hours, and during that time I pointed out to him something called Twitter.

How do you run a blog to get the most SEO benefit? I explore the basics of it in this blogging guide for beginners.

As seen in Smashing Magazine! A free web design an development project plan and checklist for designers and clients.

Did Google find Atlantis? It’s being reported around the web today that Google Earth has found Atlantis :) Here’s the co-ordinates to find Atlantis with Google Earth; coordinates: 31 15’15.53N, 24 15’30.53W (600 miles west of Morocco, deep in the Atlantic Ocean) The man from the sun says yes but the man from Google says … Read more

1. Figure Out What You Want To Get Out Of Social Media. 2. Create Your Profiles. 3. Learn The Community Rules. 4. Become An Active Part Of That Community. Enjoy It.

A robots.txt file is a file on your webserver used to control bots like Googlebot, Google’s web crawler. You can use it to block Google and Bing from crawling parts of your site.

If you are serious about organic search engine optimisation, forget about using, or optimising frames and read up on the latest guidelines for SEO.

For over two decades, I’ve seen web standards come and go. One that often resurfaces is the topic of ‘access keys’ – keyboard shortcuts for website navigation. Back in the early 2000s, this seemed like a promising feature, and even the UK Government created a standard for it. However, the web has evolved, and our … Read more

This guide reframes web accessibility as a core pillar of strategic, high-quality web development, driven by a self-reinforcing tripartite imperative: legal compliance, commercial advantage, and ethical design.

No. While Google recommends we use W3C validation, Google doesn’t rank valid html and css pages above invalid pages. If Google can crawl and render a page Google will rank the page appropriately based on how relevant it is to the query. Invalid HTML can on the other hand can cause search engines problems.