Archive for April, 2005

Wellington Federation of Sports Clubs web site relaunched

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

Skip my long, drawn out story below if you like, and just go and see the new Wellington Federation of Sports Clubs web site, setup by me using Drupal and a few tweaks. A huge improvement over the old site, and some additional improvements to be made yet. I’m hopeful though, that it [...]

Example pants link exchange

Monday, April 25th, 2005

After my rant the other day, I come into work this morning with a typical example of the appaling link exchange requests I get. Have a read, company name and that xxx out of course.

Subscribing to comments

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

Thanks to Diane I’ve now installed and set the Subscribe to Comments plugin from Scripty Goddess.
So now, when you leave a comment (and please leave one!) you can subscribe to get an email when others post a comment on the same post. Good stuff!

Link Building rant

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

I’ve just read FantoMaster’s reprint of an article by Aaron Wall about that most annoying of subjects in the SEO world, White Hat Vs Black Hat. Once again I’m left pissed off at the way certain types of SEO are referred to as lazy.
In Aaron’s article he states:

Link Building = Spam
No longer is it [...]

Criminal helping the FBI

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

That’s what Mary Hodder thinks SEO people are anyway, the bad guys, invited to MS’ Search Champs to help the good guys. First time I ever heard MS labeled the good guys
And that doesn’t seem to be restricted to those that practice the riskier arts of SEO, nope, that’s just anyone involved [...]

Grabbing screens

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

Another nice little freeware app some people might be interested in for taking screenshots.
Writing up some documentation recently, I was getting fed up with using Windows built in screen shot (by hitting Print Screen), then pasting it into a new image in Fireworks (one of those RAM hungry monsters), cropping it and doing whatever to [...]

Identity Crisis

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

OK, so I’ve been fiddling with the look of this place again. Got rid of those background ball things, they were bugging me, decided the colours needed to be warmer, and wanted a more interesting heading.
So, the Camaban in the header is now an image, the background image there has changed to a warmer [...]

Getting good copy

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Here at work, I’m in charge of the web site (part of the reason I applied for the job!) and have spent a lot of time improving it, adding things, making it look smarter etc…
As a popular reseller, we deal with quite a large number of manufacturers (well, publishers in our case) of the products [...]

RAM Monsters

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Whenever people ask me about buying new PC’s these days, I always recommend they get at least 512MB RAM to be able to run things properly.
Last night, on my PC which currently has 1GB RAM, I noticed, that while not doing anything terribly strenuos, it was using something like 800MB, according to take manager.
So I [...]

WikiWikiWiki

Friday, April 1st, 2005

I’ve never really had much of a look at Wiki’s till recently. Wasn’t too sure what they were, and wasn’t interested enough to find out more.
Till I started finding interesting stuff on the WikiPedia that is.
It’s a pretty funky idea. Take one CMS solution, allow pretty much anyone to be able to register [...]