sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Tech on May 12th, 2008
So, I have a customer.
Customer wants a new website. They’ve outgrown their existing one.
Website should be an ecommerce site and be really accessible to the search engines (I added the last bit!).
To be honest there is nothing in those short statements that would bother most website designers (which I am not by the way!). [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
Vladimir Prevolac’s Wordpress plugin is an absolute life saver for the lazy amongst us. Essentially, every image we use should have both an alt and title tag associated with it. These tags Vladimir describes as follows:
ALT attribute is important part of search engine
optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
I like this plugin. It is not complicated to use and it helps us all to practice good blogging manners. Essentially there is a habit amongst many bloggers to ‘hotlink’ an image rather than hosting the image on their own server. Lots of people writing blogs do not seem to realise that [...]
Posted in Rants on Mar 1st, 2008
Ah - we , errmmm, seem to have…well what I mean is….well. Oh bugger.
You can almost imagine the embarrassment of the Home Office. A laptop that the Home Office lost 4years ago has turned up. Which under normal circumstances you might think was a good thing. Well - not quite. [...]
I started this blog, naively thinking that there would be no need to remind people that a blog is copyright material and that you should not steal another persons work.
Well - now that I have had my initial beliefs completely reversed (I had whole pages of content scraped within 24hrs of this Blog opening) here [...]
