Online seems almost chocked full of instant gratification. You can twitter your thoughts, tumblr your findings and pownce your files with friends. I have to admit I have fallen for 2 main forms of instant gratification. Other forms have come and gone like beta flotsum and jetsum along the shore of my email account. At times they seemed good looking strangers that lured me with shiny time sucking distraction. However, none have stuck as much as twitter and tumblr for me. I’ll note here that whilst I did use it, for me pownce never stuck around, I had a lot of issues with their AIR application on my powerbook, I may try it with my new machine at some point but it has so far failed to stick as much as twitter.

Some people seem to be under various misunderstandings regarding online business. A lot of these things have been said time and time again. Many of them are like bad pennies to anyone that works in the web industry - you get a huge here we go feeling every time one of these comes up. I would like to look at a few that recently again came up in my own experiences:

Last night the frustration of how out of date the UK web reporting is, became drummed into my eyeballs with the BBC News 24 Click program content - only click the link if you like muttering. Here are listed some of the gloriously up the minute contents.

I’ve decided we need some universally accepted emoticon for sarcasm, maybe even some big internet alarm for it too. How about the net spots it and types it all in say bright flashing ‘this is sarcasm’ red? Ok, maybe I am getting a bit carried away but it’s getting to the point you can’t be a piss taking so and so anymore without someone picking you up on it. It’s not just me, the rash of wrongly accused sarcasm lovers is net wide. You may shout “it’s the lowest form of wit” but I can’t hear you because I’m singing in my head (insert emoticon here).

Even though I hate to admit it, there are times when people can’t or don’t want to get a professional for a website (only joking). They may not have the money or the availability, they may just fancy dabbling in a bit of web DIY themselves. Just like with household DIY there are some common mistakes far to frequently made. In-fact you could easily make several series for prime time TV out of it. So, I thought I would take a look at a few simple and common disasters that are often the cause of more than one blot on the web. I’ve picked 10 most common ones that I feel if taken into consideration by even the most basic beginner can help their design.

Today sees the web reaching the grand old age of 15. Happy birthday Mr web.