Archive | blog RSS feed for this section

Is SEO still bullshit?

I was having a discussion recently with some other web developers and it came to light that a lot of them still felt that search engine optimisation was…if you pardon my French….bullshit. It was argued that if you simply wrote good, relevant content, then the traffic will come without needing to spend a lot of [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

We’re all in it together

Ah, it’s nice to see that we really are all in it together and that Stephen Hester (RBS CEO) is following the very long line of top executives, by leading by example. NOT. Simply put, this is just pure and utter greed, happening at the most inappropriate time. And although the bonus is in stock [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Web design using wireframes

Before getting onto the technical coding of a website, a much often overlooked process of the initial design phase is creating wireframes to mock up how each page might look. Creating wireframes is a quick and easy way of working through the initial creative process by simply copying or dragging elements onto a page to [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Sex, Sun and Suspicious parents

Sex, Sun and Suspicious Parents has to be one of the cruelest TV programmes I have come across in a while. Its one of those rare times when its not unheard of to find me hiding behind a cushion, cringing at the situations unfolding. So the premise is each week two teenagers go off on [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Damn You Auto Correct

Ever used the predictive text feature when sending a message and its selected an inappropriate word in place of what you meant to type. And then you’ve sent that message without reading it through first? Yes? Well, damnyouautocorrect.com has to be the funniest website I’ve visited for a long while and celebrates some of the [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Google search algorithm updates December 2011

Google is constantly updating and refining the algorithms that are applied to search results. In the past it has been very difficult to keep on top of the changes that Google makes, however they have just started to do a monthly update of the more significant changes which they make to improve the relevancy of [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Using WordPress domain names

In designing my new website, I was looking at domain names – the bit that you type into the address bar in a browser to get to a site. Now I know I should use my company name, but to be honest I’d prefer to use a domain name that accurately describes what I actually [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Password protecting WordPress pages

I recently had a client who wanted a password protected section of his website. Didn’t need to be too complicated, just a simple, single password that would be shared amongst everyone who wanted to access a series of pages. Now for those that don’t know, password protecting a post or page in WordPress, is very [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Web design for Internet Explorer 6.0

This might seem a bit of a rash statement to make (some may not even understand it), but I hereby proclaim that any websites that I work on may or may not work correctly in Internet Explorer 6.0. So there! When a browser is over 10 years old, slow, prone to malware attacks, incompatible with [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →

Facebook kills off RSS notes

One of my clients recently came to me and asked me how he could use Facebook to promote his business. Its actually relatively simple to set up a Facebook Group. The difficulty comes with what you’re going to say on Facebook. But the content has gotta be new, relevant and interesting for your audience to [...]

Leave a comment Continue Reading →