Archive for June, 2007

Keep it clear

How do you make sure your message gets through to your customers and other people looking at your website. Well, the best way it to keep your message clear and legible. Today I was looking through the website of an IVA company and was particularly impressed at how clear and legible the design was.
The things […]

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Embed RSS feeds in your website

I wanted to add a news feed to SearchMann and spent some time coming up to speed with different ways I could do this. I finally settled upon an excellent script called RSS Display Boxes that uses AJAX to embed an RSS feed in a div. There was some messing around the phpLD to get […]

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Stores Online

Are you looking to set up an e-commerce site? If so, head down to StoresOnlineInc.com and you’ll find a complete solution that will help you set up and manage your online store. It’s an online application that lets you define the style of your store, upload your catalog and sell, sell, sell. They also offer […]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

SearchMann goes live

It’s finally up and running. After lots of messing around and moving to a new links engine called phpLD, the site is finally live and we are populating it with links relating to the Isle of Man. If you have a site that’s relevant to the Isle of Man, pop down to SearchMann and add […]

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Eradicate Spyware

Have you ever seen a computer infected with malware? It’s actually pretty amazing. You delete something, look around and Bam .. it’s there again! You see, once a machine gets infected with spyware it opens the floodgates to install all sorts of other nasties, and each of those installs some more and so on.
I had […]

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

SearchMann Revisited

It’s time to pick up doing some more work on SearchMann. It’s a link directory for websites based and related to the Isle of Man and the new version will be built around phpLD. This is my first project using this software, so it’s bound to be fun. Check it out in a few weeks.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Remote support for your clients

Here’s an interesting tool for people who have remote clients. Remote PC let’s you provide remote access support to people anywhere in the world which is a great if you want to spend the rest of your life on a yacht (assuming you have an internet connection that is). It has some great functions, including […]

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Who’s your neighbour?

Came across a great little tool today called MyIPNeighbours which gives you a list of all the other domains that share the same IP address as your website. This is quite relevant when you’re using a shared hosting service as it shows you which domains/systems are running alongside. Other systems may have a performance impact […]

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

3D Mind Maps

I find that when I’m studying I tend to keep notes in a form very similar to Mind Maps. I find it quite intuitive yet, I’ve never taken it a step further to look at computer information organizer software. There’s a selection of packages you can use as an Information Organizer, including FreeMind and Labyrinth […]

Friday, June 1st, 2007