Simon

Author's details

Name: Simon Lande
Date registered: June 14, 2011
URL: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-lande/1/55/a82

Biography

Simon Lande is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of ActiveStandards. As CEO, Simon is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, and also has a client-facing role across a number of our major accounts. Before founding ActiveStandards, Simon was a research scientist, completing a PhD in biochemistry at Imperial College London. Reflecting his origins, Simon continues to stay very close to the product development process, which defines the innovative heart of ActiveStandards.

Latest posts

  1. ActiveStandards and the Web Operations Management Ecosystem — May 8, 2013
  2. Digital customer experience governance demystified — February 20, 2013
  3. Three responses to responsive design — February 8, 2013
  4. Two cities, two perspectives on web governance — October 30, 2012
  5. Website Standards made simple — October 17, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Your CMS is great – but it’s not enough — 3 comments
  2. New top-level domain names – opportunities and threats — 1 comment
  3. Choosing a recipe for cookie consent — 1 comment
  4. A is for audit: step one in your website redesign — 1 comment

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Your CMS is great – but it’s not enough

Posted: Simon Lande

September 2, 2011

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Despite the move to web experience management that many content management systems have made of late, large organisations are still struggling to maintain consistency across all their content channels. Many global brands have grasped the fact that their web operations are too complex for a single solution and have tried plugging the gaps with multiple …

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New top-level domain names – opportunities and threats

Posted: Simon Lande

July 15, 2011

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As if there is not enough complexity for global website managers to worry about already, decision time is looming on what to do about the upcoming availability of generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). Organisations have just a few months left to apply to ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) for new gTLDs …

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Choosing a recipe for cookie consent

Posted: Simon Lande

March 29, 2012

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Yesterday I presented at the Society for Computers and Law at an event focused on how early adopters are handling the issues of cookie consent. Read a recent overview of what’s likely to happen on 26th May, when the 12-month grace period for complying with the new EU cookie laws in the UK comes to …

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A is for audit: step one in your website redesign

Posted: Simon Lande

October 25, 2011

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Scott Abel

In the first of our new “website lifecycle” series, Magus CEO Simon Lande discusses why you need to factor content into your website redesign.

There’s little doubt that one of the primary reasons we seek to change the design of our websites is because we feel they no longer represent us.

In fact, the more we think about it, that may be the only reason we redesign our websites. Brands, business directions, products and personnel all change. The look and feel of the website changes with them – but often the web content stays the same.

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Why are broken links still so widespread?

Posted: Simon Lande

August 2, 2012

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Websites have been plagued with broken links since the dawn of the internet age. And despite huge advances in technology, it’s an issue that continues to have a serious impact on customer experience, as well as a negative impact on SEO. The prevalence of broken links doesn’t make users forgiving of them. Encountering broken links …

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