Well, thats nearly it for 2011 and it's been another busy year for Media Street. We've built and launched a whole host of interesting websites this year for a variety of clients, including:

Do you fancy yourself as the next Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsey? Well this could be your chance to show the culinary world what you have to offer.

The Pepper Technology Group (PTG) are currently writing a cookbook, provisionally entitled "The Sweet Pepper Cookbook", and are inviting people to enter thier best pepper recipes. The winner, to be chosen by the PTG, will have thier very own recipe in the book and also be named among the contributors. Runners up will have there recipe placed on the PTG website.

Does your website allow for non English speaking visitors? If your running a business that sells products online then having a translation option would be highly advisable, after all, why would you want to alienate the rest of the world when there's another billion or so potential customers out there.

There are 2 main options when it comes to translating your website:

No doubt some of you will already be aware of Google Easter Eggs but for those of you who aren't, let me explain. Google has always had a history of being an organization with a sense of humour, the notorious Google Doodle has been brightening up many peoples searches since the first one appeared in 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man Festival. Google Easter Eggs take things one step further, a spokesman from Google said "Easter eggs are simply little fun surprises to be discovered by our users to make their Google experiences even more fun and put a smile on their face."

OK... so you have a new website and you're happy with it. But, shock horror, your friend looks at your new website and sees it all displaying funny. Why is that? and how can we prevent this?

As with all things when it comes to websites we'd have to look at the code and in the code we'd find the solution as to why it's not displaying correctly. But as for prevention, that's what we really want to look at and that's what we're going to discuss in this article.