Web & Internet General

Podcasting: Dead or Alive?

Podcasting: Dead or Alive? Podcasting is not something that comes up very often in a web design requirements meeting with a new client. Even though adding a podcast channel to a customers site is simple and inexpensive and making podcasts can be quick , fun and within the capabilities of a lot of website owners [...]


Google’s Update Removes Keyword Data

If you’re not interested in SEO, page rank or your website’s position in Google then this article won’t interest you at all, however as most business website owners are all a little preoccupied with Google positioning I would guessed this would tweak your interest. To the absolute horror of SEO experts around the world, Google [...]


Google Analytics Premium

We have all (or most of us at least) heard of and/or use Google’s Free Analytics Tool. The implementation of a tiny section of provided code allows Google to track our websites and produce facts and figures that are often invaluable to our business marketing and strategies. Recently Google have released an Annually Charged ‘Premium’ [...]


WordPress Admin Area Has Internet Explorer 9 Issue

We have received calls this week reporting issues with the administration area on WordPress when viewed within the IE9 web browser. The issue seems to be with the HTML text editor when adding or updating a blog post. Reported issues are disappearing text when changing from HTML view to Visual View and tool bar problems [...]


Man Down! Sage Pay Gremlins Back Again

Yesterday and today has seen the return of the Sage Pay gremlins with the third man fraud scoring system failing to bring back results. The issue was first noticed yesterday with new transactions not returning a fraud score. Over a year ago I wrote about how impressed I was with Sage Pay, leading me to [...]


Transfering Domain Names

Over the years we have bought, transferred in and transferred away hundreds of domain names. While it is ridiculously simple, it does have to be done correctly and in a synchronised manner for a smooth successful transaction and this is often the downfall amongst the less experienced. About Domain Names A domain name is simply [...]


Firefox 4 Web Browser: A Users Perspective

I finally got round to updating my Firefox web browser to version 4 (going directly to 4.0.1 actually) and I have to say, I’m liking it a lot. In general I’m a Microsoft fanboy (or fanboi as my kids would write it) but I found IE 8 to be a big let down and after [...]


Website Card Processing – My Sage Pay Updated

A year ago I posted a blog on how impressed with Sage Pay I was. I really was totally thrilled, with the application, with the gateway and most importantly of all, with the customer service. I have exclusively recommended Sage Pay since then and implemented it into all of our e-commerce launches. Even during the [...]


12 New Formats For Google Docs Viewer

Google Docs Viewer has today launched their support for 12 new file formats. Used by millions worldwide daily, Google Docs Viewer allows users to view files securely online without having to download the file itself. With support for formats such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and PDF Google Docs & Google Docs Viewer is already well [...]


Google Giant Links Analytics and Webmaster Tools

Many comments over the web about this, some solid, some speculative and some hopeful that this is only just the beginning of greater things to come, I’m also quite hopeful but shhh don’t jinx it. Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools are now linking, making it easier to access your Google Analytics features form your [...]