May 12th 2008
What webmasters can learn from Ocean’s Eleven.
Just watched this film (for like the tenth time), last week. And you know what? - There are definitely parallels to creating an awesome company website, and executing a precise plan of attack against three of the largest casinos in Vegas...
Daniel Ocean is released on parole after a four year ...
May 3rd 2008
9 kick ass Open source E-commerce platforms reviewed
With e-commerce webdesign really starting to take off, its never been more important to choose a platform which suits you as a developer (i.e. one that you can support) and one that will provide your clients with the features that they need to run a successful online shop.
There are a ...
May 1st 2008
Pagerank update underway for April 2008.
It appears that Google have published their toolbar updates for April. If you are a green bar addict, get yourself over to PR checker We have moved from a PR 3 to 4, on both the blog and main site, on a number of data centres - which is not ...
April 26th 2008
6 quick steps to lowering your website bounce rate
As stated in a few posts, I wasn't really happy with our site design, as it wasn't producing the killer response that I wanted. The bounce rates overall were quite high, despite the fact that I had moved content into a more pleasing position (or so I thought). So the ...
March 8th 2008
Why do we subscribe? The psychology behind rss.
I often think just before I hit that subscribe button..what is it that has made me want to stay up to speed with website xy or z? Normally my behaviour is based on a few simple things. Here's my five thoughts on what turns a visitor into a subscriber
1) ...
March 5th 2008
A trip back in time, how 5 major bloggers looked when they started.
Everyone starts somewhere. The websites we know and love, mainly have started from nothing and grown to immense proportions. The same is true for the major bloggers within the blogosphere. The following is a bit of an insight into the hows, why's and where's. I've used the wayback machine ...
March 3rd 2008
Alexander Graham Bell & the Holiday Logo.
What do Alexander Graham Bell, Mother's Day, Easter and Frank Lloyd Wright all have in Common? No Idea? -They have all been featured in Google's holiday calendar. And what is the result for webmasters? That's right, if you can cover some of these topics in your blog or website, then ...
January 5th 2008
21 Steps to website success in Google for 2008.
There are a number of ways of promoting a site, however any webmaster worth his salt knows that search engine referrals are where you are going to win the majority of points. Link building is hard work, and it is much better to simply create content which will serve two ...
December 29th 2007
How to grab them. Five Social bookmarking traffic profiles analysed.
For anyone that has spent any time trying to garner the elite position of the front page of any social bookmarking website, you will begin to notice that certain types of stories with certain appeal, seem to work better on some than others. The following is what I've began to ...
December 23rd 2007
Becoming a Facebook popular player.
I've decided to start embracing Facebook more. There are tons of people out there, people I haven't met, who are probably fantastically interesting. So in true internet fashion, lets start adding randoms to my profile. I'm going all out. For the record if you like. I going to see how ...