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A tale of accessibility: Internet Explorer and the Noscript Tag

In our ever increasing quest to make our sites accessible, we often investigate new ways of developing a rich interface without impacting on the original functionality. This usually involves developing an unobtrusive Javascript solution.

PCI DSS Compliance deadline

SagePay, one of our payment gateway partners has informed us that Visa and Mastercard have pushed for a 30th September PCI DSS compliance deadline (if you didn't get to see our recent blog article about PCI DSS compliance you can see it here). The rollout dates do vary from bank to bank.

Fast and Responsive Flash: Loading Fonts on Demand

Embedded fonts can occupy as much as 100Kb per style, which can translate to several seconds of waiting on a slower internet connection. Fortunately, with a bit of work, we can persuade Flash to let us load in fonts as and when they’re required.

What happens when the 4.3 billion IP addresses are used up?

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is the unique numeric address that identifies a device on a computer network that supports the Internet Protocol. There are currently 4.3 billion unique addresses. Since the 1990s it has been a concern that, with the growth of the Internet, these addresses would soon be exhausted. 

With this in mind several solutions were identified, one of these was to create a new IPv6 128 bit standards based solution that would allow for 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.

PCI DSS - E-commerce credit card security

The security of customers' payment card details has always been of the utmost importance but banks and the card industry are increasing the pressure on merchants to prove their compliance with the regulations.

All businesses that handle card data must comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and there are penalties for non-compliance.

Google arrives in Lincolnshire. So what is Street View?

With the recent sighting of Google's Street View camera car in Lincolnshire, we look closely at the potential impact this may have on the area and our clients.

Significant updates in the way Google searches - Code named 'Caffeine'

Matt Cutts, Head of Web-spam at Google suggested that this recent latest round of updates to Google's web search architecture is the most significant since the 'Big Daddy Update' back in 2005. With Google listings so important to all our clients, what is 'Caffeine' and what are the potential implications?

Some of the most commonly used Search Marketing Acronyms Explained

Want to know the difference between SEO and SEM, PPC and CPC but were too scared to ask? Look no further. TJS have compiled a list of the essential Search Marketing terms you need to know.