Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • WordPress Woo(hoo!)

    I think it is pretty well established at this point that I am a fan of WordPress. It has become my go to solution for all manner of projects in the last couple of years and while a number of my illustrious developer & designer associates have rather fallen out with it I’ll admit that…

  • Getting to Grips with Google Analytics

    I’ve been using Google Analytics on various websites I’ve worked on since..well since before it was Google Analytics (GA).  I actually was a paying customer of Urchin before GOOG swallowed them up back in 2005.  Before then I’d mainly been using WebTrends and I think AWStats (though that might have come later?) and while I…

  • The MySociety Masters in Public Technology Idea..

    Tom Steinberg from MySociety has posted an idea today about the need for a Masters (or equivalent) in Public Technology. I think it is a really interesting post and I agree with about 90% of it. The bit I don’t agree with is the focus on software engineers – probably because I’m not one! I…

  • Outsourcing Web Teams?

    During my seven hour train journey back from Scotland last week I had plenty of time to catch up on my reading and one thing I spotted got the gears turning in my head in a manner that was perhaps neither constructive nor positive 🙂 However a few days have passed and I can now…

  • Seeking Open Content Management Systems

    So after a couple of years of strictly being a CMS user it looks likely that 2011 will be the year I get properly sucked back into the web content management system(s) black hole. There is every chance I’ll be leading a project to implement a new CMS and subsequently take the opportunity to refresh…