Having no in-built method for filtering out SPAM in the SalesForce.com Web-To-Lead form is a real pain and a popular subject in the forums and something that many will find to be enough of an issue to go back to doing it the old fashioned way and inputting leads manually – this is a waste of resource and unnecessary ..read more »

Just been playing with a new jquery plugin for animating background-positions in HTML – with great javascript tools like this, you start to think.. ‘why do we need html5?’! Expect to see more of this very soon.. maybe here In fact html5 is almost meaningless to me at the moment, as my main role involves a website that sees 25% of it’s visitors using ie6. The joys of working with big corporates and the public sector..

Giving your website more depth and letting  people see who you really are is a good idea if you want to stand out from the crowd. In B2B, it’s refreshing to see this kind of tactic, whilst in B2C, it really is kinda de rigueur. How you do it can make a big impact too.. just a list of names really isn’t going to win you any points here, whereas a nice image (if you have any!) and a good 3rd person description of who everyone is and where they have come from can set off an already nice website. Getting a bit of publicity for yourself is always a good thing too, so it might be nice to have your company do some work for you for a change!

Version 2.0 of the web accessibility standards should be out early next year, however, I don’t actually think anyone bothered to pay attention to the first lot. What with the rise of the Grey Pound, you would think that people would at least make their sites easy to read by people who are far sighted / vision impared!