Pets take it all in stride.

Ever wonder just how far your pet has run or walked during the course of very busy outings?
Posted by  StevenDubin  on  Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Template Monster and Broadwick Corporation Strike a Deal

Template Monster Now Offers Free E-mail Marketing Powered by Broadwick’s IntelliContact Pro Software.
Posted by  James_Berg  on  Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Template Monster Now Offers an Expanded Photo Gallery

Now offering stock photos for free through partnership with AbsolutVision.

Brooklyn, N.Y., December 27, 2004. Template Monster, a worldwide top provider in website design templates, introduces a new partner to all customers: AbsolutVision – a popular leading provider of stock photos. Using the advantages of AbsolutVision’s photo gallery, which consists of thousands of royalty free digital images, and the corporate style designs of the Template Monster design team, the company now offers an expanded database of corporate website templates of professional quality.
Posted by  James_Berg  on  Monday, December 27, 2004

Supreme Anime Launches eCommerce Website for the ANIME and MANGA Fans Worldwide

www.SupremeAnime.com is an all-inclusive site that was created by Anime fans to satisfy every need of the Anime & Manga enthusiast. www.SupremeAnime.com is the premier provider of ANIME and MANGA merchandise offering a selection of over 10,000 ANIME and MANGA DVD’s, graphic novels, and books.
Posted by  Frans  on  Thursday, December 23, 2004

Auctioneers sell their goods like hot cakes at YellowPages.t35.com with escrow

YellowPages.t35.com recently partner with payment gateway Moneybookers.com that accepts escrow payment, direct bank-in, credit card fund upload and cashier check is a hit with auctioneers. With escrow services, buyer pays seller the auction amount and release the payment only when buyer receives the goods is the extra security against any frauds.
Posted by  andrewkhtan  on  Thursday, December 09, 2004

Banks league Table for November

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and best site overall was The Derbyshire Building Society, in second place was Newcastle Building Society. At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall again was Britannia.

1.1 Website Function
 No sites were error free this month and 29% of the sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was Coventry Building Society with over 3,200.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was HFC Bank with 4. British Banking Association again had the poorest HTML, with nearly 69,000 failures.
 Accessibility – 1 site scored 100% and 17 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility 4 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 No sites passed the tests for AA, Priority 2 compliance.
The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance to the requirements.

1.3 Website Performance
 50% of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download. Simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb].
 The Site with the slowest download speed was; Lloyds TSB; HBOS Plc had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put it into context Lloyds TSB site was 46 times slower.
 The Site with the slowest response time was Lloyds TSB; Birmingham Midshires; had the fastest response time of sites tested, to put it into context Lloyds TSB was 80 times slower.








Posted by  claireblasi  on  Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Central Government League Table for November

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS
Top of the league and the best site overall was the Child Support Agency (www.csa.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was the Department of Trade and Industry (www.dti.gov.uk).

1.1 Website Function
 4 sites were error free this month and 19 sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was the Human Rights site with over 705.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML – The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was the Child Support Agency with 3. HM Government and Excise had the poorest HTML, with nearly 45,000 failures.
 Accessibility – 16 sites scored 100% and 37 sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility. 5 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance to the requirements.

1.3 Website Performance
 29 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download and simulated as being viewed by users with home [56k], ADSL [512k] and corporate access [1mb].
 The site with the slowest download speed was Office of Rail Regulation; Resource had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put in context the Office of Rail Regulation site was 92 times slower than the resource site.
 The site with the slowest response time was Office of Rail Regulation; Innovation had the fastest response time of sites tested and was 264 times slower than The Innovation site.








Posted by  claireblasi  on  Tuesday, November 30, 2004

FTSE League Table for November

1 OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS

Top of the league and best site overall was Daily Mail and General Trust Plc (www.dmgt.co.uk), in second place was Next (www.next.co.uk).At the bottom of the table representing the poorest site overall was Reuters (www.reuters.com).

1.1 Website Function
 2 sites were error free this month, these included Next and Wolseley. 37% of sites had 10 errors or less. The site with the highest number of errors was British American Tobacco with over 6713.

1.2 Website Compliance
 HTML - The site with the lowest number of warnings [HTML standards compliance with the requirements laid down by W3C and IETF] was Daily Mail and General Trust Plc with 1 error. Diageo had the poorest HTML, with nearly 10,200 failures.
 Accessibility – 8 of the of sites scored 100%, 40% of sites scored 90%+ on the automated tests looking at the requirements of Priority 1 (A) accessibility, 11 sites had less than 1% compliance when tested against the mandatory requirements for Priority 1 accessibility.
 Only 1 site Daily Mail General Trust passed the tests for AA, priority 2 compliance.
The range of tests [Web Accessibility Initiative WAI] that can be completed automatically are limited, 100% compliance with the automated tests does not mean 100% compliance to the requirements.

1.3 Website Performance
 28 of the sites tested passed all basic speed tests, looking at first page download. Simulated as being viewed by a home [56k], ADSL [512k] and user with corporate access [1mb].
 The site with the slowest download speed (site delivery capability) was United Utilities; Severn Trent had the fastest download speed of sites tested, to put it into context the site was 290 times slower than United Utilities.
 The site with the slowest response time (testing web infrastructure, systems and software) was United Utilities; The BOC Group had the poorest time, the site was 518 times slower than The BOC Group.








Posted by  claireblasi  on  Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Hollander Consultants’ Client Satisfaction Hits Quarterly High

The chief executive of Hollander Consultants’ Quality Control Division, Bob Martin, just announced that client satisfaction has reached a quarterly high of 93%.
Posted by  mattb  on  Thursday, November 25, 2004