Help! My Website’s Disappeared!
My web hosts decided to take my business website offline as some kind soul had decided to compromise my server and upload a rogue PHP script. Helpfully, they did this on a Friday afternoon, leaving me...
View ArticleI couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but I guess I just need to...
Is anyone getting this message in their comment spam folder about 20 times per day? I fell for it the first time I saw it. In a way, it could be the perfect spam comment – it seems perfectly innocent...
View ArticleThe importance of search engine ranking
My web design business, MB Web Design, recently moved from position #3 to #2 on Google.co.uk for the term “web design”. Since then I’ve been inundated with enquiries and click-through traffic from...
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Pink laptop by Dell
My fiancee’s laptop finally gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago – in exactly the same manner as mine, the power socket broke and the cost of fixing it was a bit much. I figured that money would be...
View ArticleCheck Your Current Pagerank
Google have been frustrating SEO watchers for a couple of months now by putting off updating toolbar PR for most sites, although they’ve annoyed a lot of pro bloggers by downgrading PR en masse for a...
View ArticleAutomated SEO Reciprocal Link Requests
I’m receiving an ever-increasing influx of emails asking me to link to Site X in exchange for a link from some crappy subpage of Site Y – a twist on the old reciprocal linking model. I must get about...
View ArticleFlash & Actionscript: Eaters Of Time
As part of my job at UCL, I’ve spent the last two weeks working on some Flash-based gimmicks for the sites I’m putting together. Very whizzy and Actionscript-laced they are, too. Except I have a...
View ArticleIdiot Telemarketer
I hope this is some bizarre viral campaign, but it probably isn’t. A guy at a “world leading” UK-based web marketing firm – so “world leading” I’ve never heard of them – loses his rag after making what...
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RNIB Logos and Web accessibility
I had a positive and enlightening meeting at the RNIB this morning. I’m going to be helping them launch a Facebook application in the coming weeks – nothing too clever, mind you. They’re less concerned...
View ArticleScrabble Owners Sue Makers Of Scrabulous
Well, it had to happen sooner or later. Mattel and Hasbro, the owners of Scrabble, have decided to sue the developers of the enormously popular (and addictive) Facebook application, Scrabulous. This...
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