Favourite Albums of 2014

The year draws to a close and the world needs another best of 2014 list. Fortunately, I am in a position to provide one - my favourite albums of the year. 

Get yourselves down to a record shop and buy these:

This is all Yours by Alt-J

Built on Glass by Chet Faker

Warpaint by Warpaint 

Everyday Robots by Damon Albarn

Zaba by Glass Animals

Total Strife Forever by East India Youth

Present Tense by Wild Beasts

St Vincent by St Vincent 

Romantic Works by Keaton Henson

Lost in a Dream by War on Drugs

In a Dream by Juan Maclean

The Take off and Landing of Everything by Elbow

Love Letters by Metronomy

The role of social media buttons on websites

Many interesting points are made by Paul Boag in this excellent article about the role of social media buttons on websites.

He argues, very sensibly, that we should reconsider putting them on every page on your website. The reasons he cites includes:

1) It may divert your customers from pursuing the primary call to action for the page.

2) If you embed 'follow' or 'like' buttons, with code hosted on 3rd party servers, it can slow the page load times and perhaps have validation or security issues.

3) The button may not be the simplest way for a user to share your content.

You can read the full article here including suggestions on how to best use social media buttons.