The November edition of PC Pro (UK) had a good article by Kevin Partner, who writes on online business. Amongst other things, he outlined his straight forward process for getting a site optimised for a client.
Before spending lots of cash on “professionals” touting an expert knowledge in the black art, …
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Anyone looking after a website for more than a short while will come across the scenario: the user says something funny’s going on, but you just can’t see it, whatever you do. You ask them what browser they’re using. They don’t know what you’re talking about – what’s a browser? …
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Dean Hachamovitch, the Internet Explorer team leader has commented that plug-ins were important in the past, but that HTML5 is what will be used in the future.
Does your site make use …
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Just a quick snippet, this one. If you’re VAT registered, you need to charge VAT to people within the EU, unless they provide a valid VAT number. Whilst e-commerce packages are getting better, and one or two even understand the full rules of VAT, most have implemented a much more …
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The search for a paperless office. Well, that’s the dream, no? But whilst it’s been technically possible for a while, it’s just been far too clunky for me to ever get anywhere with it.
Lord knows, I’ve tried. I’ve used all sorts of methods of filing, scanning, categorising, sorting and …
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One of the things that is often overlooked when looking at search engine optimisation is speed. Google actually rewards you for making your site load fast. Site load time is a factor that goes towards your page rank, so clearly not something to ignore.
This post is just a high …
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Just a quick one, this one, to get us ready for the heavy lifting. Just in case you need a bit of help installing Sigil, I thought I’d use this as a chance to learn a bit about making video. I haven’t done this video thing before, but it doesn’t …
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I recommend this site. It’s well worth an hour of your time, as long as you promise to take action from what you learn!
Specific articles I liked:…
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We’ve just shut down a merchant account and a payment gateway. The merchant account from HBOS / First Data was costing us time and money to jump through PCI hoops every year, and the payment gateway from Iridium Corp seemed to have some trouble with cards from abroad – especially …
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Google rewards good content
Posted on April 3, 2012 by Jake in Comment
Google’s head of search Matt Cutts has been speaking about changes to Google’s search algorythm at SXSW, the big internet and creative conference in Texas.
Matt said that the changes will “level the playing ground”, rewarding good content, better indexing sites that don’t do SEO, and penalising “over-optimisation”.
Further evidence …
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