Software development may well be the closest activity to perpetual motion that can be achieved in the real world. Approaches and techniques once thought new are more often than not a bad solution to an old problem. Cascading Style Sheets is one of those ancient wheels badly reinvented.

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Online search is getting increasingly crowded, making attention getting differentiation even more difficult, as well as expensive. Here are a few things we’ve found that help a little. Try this at home if you like, but note that results may vary.

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The WWW has a lot of moving parts, not all of which are interconnected. Things that slip through the cracks can result in ugly web sites, low visit times and tangled support issues.

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Software code is like an ever expanding gas, with script code tending to expand faster than most other kinds. Part of this expansion is due to ordinary maintenance, but it has costs. Fortunately, these can be identified and reduced, often with some serendipitous results.
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The divide between software functionality and appearance, or development and design, has been around for some time. The advent of the WWW has increased this divide, one measure being the increased headcount required to bring an application to market. The attendant costs can have some subtle sources.

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