IFA Websites is a new side project that is Helping IFAs and financial advisers to get the most from their websites
. Basically I’ve got over ten years experience in the financial services sector, working predominantly with or for IFAs and financial advisers on software and internet related offerings and more latterly for a product provider. It is this experience that I will draw upon to support financial advisers with developing their websites and online presence. There’s also a Twitter account to follow. Currently using the free, hosted version of Wordpress, but will in time move to it’s own domain and theme.
Posted by Rob Mason on June 24th, 2009. Filed under: Work. Tagged with: Financial Adviser, Free, IFA, Independent Financial Adviser, Work.
HTML5 Showcase is a very simple and straightforward Tumblr blog to demonstrate what’s possible with the forthcoming HTML5 web standard. It showcases websites currently using the HTML5 elements, which at the time of writing is still a working draft from the W3C.
The rant
This sounds like a strange thing to do, but the intention is to illustrate that the web can be progressive and use experimental features without everything collapsing in on itself and returning us to the Dark Ages. Much of the time comments are left on certain leading websites that show general ignorance of what is possible by using progressive enhancement techniques. These comments generally sound like:
Well it’s not a standard so we can’t use it
– bzzt. Wrong. You can use it today and it will work in modern browsers. I don’t understand, so won’t bother
– bzzt. Ignorance is no defence.It’s all Microsoft’s fault
– bzzt. Christ man let it go! We can’t keep harking back to old browsers and the bad old days of design.
Experimentation is right
HTML5 is coming, and yes it’s experimental, but that should not stop us playing with it. If the grandfathers of the steam age hadn’t pushed the boundaries and experimented with things, we’d certainly not have the technological advances we have today.
Posted by Rob Mason on June 22nd, 2009. Filed under: Work. Tagged with: html5, Web standards, Work.
