alex duncan is an entrepreneur
& web expert living in shanghai.

This blog refresh has been quite literally months in the making, but eventually after hours and hours of agonising over pixels and code I finally got it live! Read More »

After months of feeling alone, feeling like I saw something others didn’t and simultaneously like I was the only one that didn’t get it. Finally today someone who knows a lot more about this kind of thing said what I had been thinking. Read More »

Recently I’ve been working more intensively on improving web interfaces and I feel quite at home in this area. It has however made me hypersensitive to the design of other websites, and how I interact with them. Read More »

Yesterday a friend who runs a start-up in Beijing asked me about website navigation and I put a few minutes research into my answer so I thought it would be worth posting it here too.

There is lots out there on the web on good practice in website navigation, but here are the key advice and rules that I find most useful. Read More »

We had a rather marvelous lady called Rosie come to visit us at Virtual Village last week. Having worked in online marketing since it’s inception in the mid 90′s she had a huge wealth of knowledge and experience and gave us a great deal of help getting to grips with our marketing tactics. We’d been floundering around for a good long while, but now have a clear direction and consensus so things look good for making some progress at last. Read More »

When I first began making websites in 2002, although I didn’t know it at the time, I set out with an approach to make things clear and useable. While many other people building websites at the time set out with an objective to use the latest javascript/gif/html/css effect I always spent far longer designing little icons or pictures that I felt were clear and gave an accurate impression of what lay at the other side of the links they guarded. Read More »