Came across a great tool to test your website called PingDom. This gives you a breakdown of all the different elements that make up a website (images, scripts etc) together with the load time for each element. It’s a great way to optimise performance on a site and also a great tool to look at […]
I did a training session with the Special Little People team a few days ago and I’m pleased to see a brand new post up on their blog. One of the great thing that WordPress gives me is the ability to ensure that clients are self-sufficient. That way, if I ever get run over by […]
If you’re running your own business, you’ll know that customers are the lifeblood of your company. It therefore makes sense to have some sort of system to manage your customers, to keep track of leads and keep control of your sales and visitors. One was to do this is using a crm package.
AIMPromote is an […]
How credible is your blog? Well, one factor that can affect credibility are links to what are considered “bad neighbourhoods”. These are sites about gambling, pharmacueticals, pornography etc. If you’re worried that you may be linking to these without realising, just pop down to Bad Neighbohood, a tool designed to scan through your website and […]
I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress v2.2. The new version has a host of new features and fixes that make upgrading really compelling. The biggest feature I think it the inclusion of widgets as part of the default build. So if you’ve never used widgets before, check out the new build. It’s brilliant!
Rory and I have put together a blog for The Joke Shop at http://www.thejokeshop.org. It seems to have had a beneficial effect on the website as traffic from Google seems to be increasing and The Joke Shop is starting to be listed on the first page for the target keywords we wanted. Good to see […]
I’ve just put the finishing touches on a blog for Special Little People, a company that makes a unique set of aromatherapy oils for children. The blog is built in WordPress and is themed to look like part of the static website. The blog is optimised to draw traffic to the Special Little People home […]
I’ve started putting togther a new version of SearchMann, but instead of building the engine myself, I’m building it on phpLink Directory. It’s a brilliant engine built on PHP/MySQL and designed to scale to a huge number of links. It also automates many of the tasks necessary to get the website off the ground, from […]