http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk A Flash Development, Information Architecture & Web Design Blog Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:58:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We apologise for the 15 minute downtime last night, we have just ugraded Wordpress to version 2.6 and the Automatic Upgrade plugin died on us due to a read-write permission error (I think!). But we are back now, happy days! :D I am still working on getting my Yahoo-map-based travelblog prototype ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/07/17/wordpress-26-upgrade-small-downtime-but-whatwasithinking-is-back/ If you followed my entry about Map integration with Yahoo Maps and ActionScript you will probably be wondering what I have to report about the progress. As you may remember, this mash-up is about offering a client a new spin on travel bogging: being able to log in to the ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/07/09/on-flash-map-integration-with-yahoo-maps-actionscript-part-2/ Over the last couple of months I have been working on a great number of design, usability and accessibility reports for clients of mine. Some of the sites I worked on are pretty good, and all you can recommend is maybe tightening up their call-to-actions or look at a couple ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/07/06/on-usability-and-accessibility-please-display-pdf-links-properly/ Up until a few months ago flash files used to be an absolute nightmare when it came to SEO and indexing its content for search engines. The best solution was always to have alternative content available or to use as little information as possible within a flash file of a ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/07/01/on-flash-swf-files-can-now-be-found-and-indexed/ With the arrival of FireFox 3 (and its record-breaking amount of downloads in its first 24h) more and more of us web architects and web developers are getting rid of their beloved FireFox 2 installation and are moving all their bookmarks, themes and extensions to version 3 of the popular ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/06/26/on-web-development-how-to-install-firefox-2-next-to-firefox-3/ Following my previous article we are now going to put our website prototype to a first test before we begin developing the website. While the functionality and navigation makes sense to us - after all, we just spent the last week(s) working on it - we need to ensure it ... http://www.whatwasithinking.co.uk/2008/06/04/on-information-architecture-and-user-testing-part-3-usability-testing-and-accessibility-testing/