The web is a content delivery medium; the more effectively we can deliver the content to our target audience, the more effective our website will be for our business. So, if the web is a content delivery medium, shouldn’t content be the most important element of our design and development process and not the design?

With the release of Outlook 2007, Internet Explorer will no longer be used as the HTML rendering engine from within Outlook, instead using the Microsoft Word rendering engine within the Office suite. While this more clearly separates the browser from the operating system for anti-trust reasons, it has a negative impact on HTML email newsletters.

In October 2006, the spam levels jumped a massive 10% in the UK (up from an average of 51.4% of emails being spam in September to 61.4% being spam) according to MessageLabs (the world’s leading provider of messaging security and management services to business). Globally the average went up by 8.5% in October 2006 to 72.9% of email received being spam. But why?

The infrastructure is the glue that links all the systems together – it includes the pointers to make sure your domain name points to the web hosting, the set-up of your internal systems used to access email and any other links that may be needed between the website and your back-office systems.

The UK tabloid The Sun is made merry at the expense of London’s Tube system with a splendid exposé on the world’s most expensive train journey. It’s not a luxury excursion on the Orient Express, but rather a 43-second jaunt on the Piccadilly Line between Covent Garden and Leicester Square: 43 seconds covering 0.26km for a whopping £4.