Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 & more

Des, Tom, Paul and Krishna have just finished their presentations at the Future Now seminar. Each speaker gave his/her own view on where the web is going. Web 1.0 to Web 4.0 and more Tom's was the most wide ranging, covering internet developments from web 1.0 as far ahead as web ...

Web Analytics & the spare iPhone

Taking up from where Coldagh finished yesterday in "Web Analytics 101", Brian Donohue is currently hosting an advanced session on the same subject. iQ has seen far greater interest in analytics over the past year or so. It is clear that Irish organisations are moving beyond the "Wow, people in [...]

Web writing: the value of real-life insights

For many years, iQ has been delivering a "Writing for the Web 101" course. Of all our training events this one is consistently over-subscribed. This indicates 2 things to me: That there is a genuine eagerness to learn how to write well and that the techniques we provide are compelling [...]

Web content arms race

The superpowers of the web are constantly coming up with new formats for online content. Over the past year we have seen Air from Adobe and Silverlight - the touted "Flash-killer" - from Microsoft.

In addition, widgets, mashups, RSS feeds, AJAX, podcasts, wikis and more continue to gain ground. We gave come a long way from the plain text and spinning GIFs of the 1990s. Adopt or not?

Three. It’s a magic number

Three steps to sign up, three points to explain how a Web 2.0 application or product works. Three seems to be everywhere...

Designing for mobility & context

Thinking back to last week's Bootcamp Future Now session, Des Traynor's and Paul Adams's talk dovetailed nicely with each other. Des talked about designing for mobility and context, while Paul talked about designing experiences. Let's recap...

Beyond functional to usable

Well visually designed wine labels are one thing, but these wine labels go beyond describing the wine visually and are actually usable. [...]

Post-Boot Camp

At 4.50pm yesterday - just 10 minutes from the end of Boot Camp '08 - a massive power  outage struck south Dublin. Despite the sudden loss of lighting and overhead projectors, our resourceful iQ presenters managed to wrap up successfully. Drinks in the Long Hall and Hogan's pubs followed and helped to soothe our throats after 3 long days of lecturing. Thanks to all our delegates for helping to make Boot Camp '08 such a great event.