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For a relatively intelligent person (qualified for Mensa, albeit before kids and other brain challenging occurences), I still have some of those duh! moments, where you realise something and wonder why you had not figured it out before? I always knew that there was a lot that one could do with text widgets and the [...]
Please, please… it is simply not worth it – the spambots veryquickly catch on to any new method, and they will harvest your email address somehow. If not from your website, then from your friends contact list, or that greeting card or party invitation sent via a website. You are simply wasting your time and [...]
Some hints on finding quality stock images for your website.
List of Affiliate marketing programs that I have encountered so far
Evaluation review of membership plugins for wordpress
It’s largely a commodity market, but… If you ever need to manage your domain name, move your hosting, and of course once a year renew it, then it must be easy and trustworthy – the tools must work and the job get done. Recently a client already had domains registered through 123-reg.co.uk, and tucows. [...]
This checklist is based on Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. This is what they think is important. One might structure it differently for different audiences. How does your site fare? Create unique, accurate page titles Accurately describe the page’s content Create unique title tags for each page Use brief, but descriptive titles Make use [...]
Marketing your business and your website ? It is my belief that for a quality result, the best method is the lasting ethical authentic but long road (also known as “white hat” methods) . If a method seems silly, gimmicky, tricky, a fudge, junky, “black cat”, or non-ethical…. well then it is. Recipe for Success: [...]
CMS stands for Content Management System. The good CMS’s now are so good, that in my view no-one should be doing a static html site any more. A CMS is a web based system where the content is stored in a database and the templates, styles or themes are maintained separately from the content. This [...]
It is possible to arrange a supposedly “private domain” when one register a domain name. Legally one is required to keep the domain registration details up to date. Currently the Internet Coalition for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) broadly requires that the mailing address, phone number and e-mail address of those owning/managing a domain name [...]
You want people to access your website easily… if it takes too long to load, often people will give up. The speed at which a viewer access a website depends on many things: The viewers side their pc, home network, their router, the type of access they have to the web (fialup, cable, adsl), their [...]
Depending on how critical your site is and how often you access it personally (eg: daily?), how worried you are about your host, you may want to look at having it formally monitored: There are so many sites out there offering this service with a variety of features: http://www.siteuptime.com/ http://site24x7.com http://www.alertra.com/ http://pingdom.com/
Search Engine Optimisation sounds like a highly technical field, however you can achieve a lot with basic common sense. Content is King Good content is very powerful. Tthe best way to build your placement in search engines and just like at school – do not plagiarise – viewers can tell when many sites pop up [...]
One generally wants one’s website to be as accessible to as many people as possible. Therefore one should specify a list of font families to ensure that your website “degrades” gracefully if the users PC does not have your favourite fonts. For example, we would probably specify a list such as: font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, [...]
Trying to match any weird and wonderful url or hyperlink in a piece of text is fun – I found “help” all over the place, but none of them quite got it all - This was clear when using the eccentric holidays calendar for a test case in my ical upcoming events list Eventually with [...]
It happens! Flood In my second job, one of our clients got flooded: the computer room was below sealevel (?) and there was a canal not far way – maybe it rained a lot, maybe the canal broke it’s banks.. I don’t know but what I remember is: When the waters were rising and people [...]
Naomi of ittybiz eloquently tells you why she hates flash intros and splash pages. A few more boringly put reasons are here. The situation is improving. There are some appealing sites that gently use a little flash to enhance the site. The danger is that there is a fine artistic line between enhancing and detracting [...]
I am always on the lookout for tools to help small businesses. Here is an interesting one for those that hold ticketed events. It allows one to define ticket types and it manages the credit card selling for you. Booking fees can be paid by purchaser or you. Or for free events, there is no [...]
So do you have a good website? Not sure? Want to know whether your designer has done a good job? Want to know what improvements might be worth doing? You can assess the effectiveness of your website your self from my tips below, or you can hire me to do it for you. I will [...]
