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Archive for April, 2010
Problem with W3C Validator?
There seems to be a problem with W3c Validator at the moment – When trying to check Shareworld I am getting the following error: Line 1, Column 1: end of document in prolog <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.o… This error may appear when the validator receives an empty document. Please make sure [...]
A certain Telecoms company and Domain Renewals
I have had an issue today where a domain has expired despite the fact it was supposed to auto-renew – this means our exchange server has gone down which is a real pain. I spoke to the technical team at the company concerned – and by the way, the technical support at this company is [...]
Bing – Microsofts Search Engine
I know Bing was launched quite some time ago, but I recently used it for the first time, and I must say, although I struggle to see that any search engine can compete with Google, I found Bing to be making a pretty good effort – The first thing I noticed was the lovely backgrounds [...]
Link building
Shareworld is at the stage now where we’ve done a lot of work on seo – we have a good site structure, regular news items, the site is almost completely valid HTML. Our next big target is link building – which is proving a very difficult task – we have toyed with link building services [...]
Google Adwords not compatible with Opera
I just tried logging into my Google Adwords account only to find that Googles Ad Center is not compatible with Opera Web Browser. It annoys me when I see that sites don’t support certain browsers – I know Opera only has a small share of the web browser market – about 1% apparently. But I [...]
Shareworld on Youtube!
Shareworld has recently published its first video on Youtube! – Its a tutorial on Level 2 Share Price systems, so if your not interested in Investing, it may not be of much use. However, please take a look anyway!!!
Web Server Load Testing
I have been trying to test how much load my server/website would take in terms of concurrent connections. After looking at a lot of expensive services to achieve this task, I came across a great site called Load Impact – They offer a free stress test for your website which will simulate up to 50 [...]
Server reload
I had to reload my web server last night after having trouble with plesk, lucky I decided to check the backups first though – as none of them worked! After some investigation I discovered that when the backups were uploaded to 1and1s FTP server, because I hadn’t explicitly selected binary as the transfer mode, the [...]