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
DailyBlogTips released the Homepage Excerpts plugin way back in 2007, and have made sure that is stays compatible with Wordpress right the way up to the current (at the time of writing) 2.5 version.
Essentially the idea of this plugin is simple. It allows the blogger control over the way that information is presented on [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
The blogclout widget that allows users to add a button to their sidebar, or a link under each blog post is used a lot by some and not at all by others.
Essentially, the premise is that asking for donations has become lame and bloggers need to find different ways to encourage readers to dip into [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
I have already owned up to being a grumpy old man, but sometimes even I struggle not to be moved like the rest of the world.
Some of the more regular visitors to this site will have noticed that I have introduced video ads from Google to my blog - and in the main I have [...]
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 [...]
