Archive for June, 2010

Keeping on top of htaccess

I use htaccess regularly to redirect old urls to new and for removing pages that don’t exist etc. So much so that the htaccess file for Shareworld had grown to over 100kb! Part of this size was due to a past re-design where almost all of our pages had to be redirected. I was once [...]

Site of the day – Cable & Wireless Worldwide

http://www.cw.com/ – Very very nice looking site, easy to use, well written… Shame it doesn’t validate!!

Site of the Day: DNSBL

If you run an exchange server and have trouble keeping off blacklists, this is a great site to check out – they have news about all the popular DNSBLs and some great articles about keeping your server off of blacklists – definitely worth checking out!

Web-Design Tool of the Day

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ This is a great tool that puts another light on search engine optimisation – as most people will know, Google has recently confirmed the completion of its new search index – Google Caffine, which takes the speed of a website much more seriously.  The link above will take you to a great (and free) [...]

Default Values for HTML Elements

This is a great bit of information I came across recently which describes the default formating of elements in HTML4 – it came in handy for me today as I had a heading set up as H3 – but I wanted to change this to a span (for SEO purposes) without loosing the current formating. [...]

Exchange 2003 Out of Office Not working

I have spent the last hour trying to work out why out of office would not work… Then I discovered that on Exchange 2003 it is turned of at the server for external addresses by default! To enable it, goto Exchange system manager>Global Settings> Internet Message Format>Default> Properties>Advanced And tick “allow out of office responses”. [...]

SEO Site Advice from Google IO 2010

This is a video from Google IO 2010. Matt Cutts talks with Tiffany Lane, Greg Grothaus and Vanessa Fox about SEO strategies by critiquing user submitted websites concerning their SEO efforts. If you are interested in SEO this is a must watch – there are some great tips in the video presented in a practical [...]

ARM Funds Linux Development

Six big technology companies are joining forces to fund a non-profit company to help speed development of Linux-based software…Read the full article

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