Category Archives: startup

Website scaling – no magic formula

Lately I’ve spoken to numerous entrepreneurs all keen to ensure that their new website can rapidly scale to cater for the massive amount of traffic that their brilliant idea will bring in. Thought I would write up a bit of advice from the trenches. Scaling is easy and incredibly difficult at the same time. Easy [...]

Landing Pages – Keeping it Simple

My three three things that a successful landing page should have (& nothing else) Simple message Form to collect emails address Thanks & opportunity to share/recommend 1 Simple Message Can a user answer these 3 questions: 1. What am I getting 2. How do I get it 3. Why I can’t live without it If not, then [...]

HTML5 sockets

Seems with html 5 websockets I can now think of the browser as a unix terminal. Instead of serving out flat html files, I can serve out one small bit of javascript that builds the page synchronously & interacts with the user. All good for very fast dynamic web pages, and a great user experience. [...]