Interesting question in the Warrior Forum today: How do you set up internal linking on your site correctly? The questioner explained that they had currently set up their site by linking each page back to the two previous pages via a link entitled ‘recent articles’. While that would link all the pages together, it would [...]
If you’re running a travel or locally focused website, making use of Google Maps is a great way to highlight areas of interest and engage your visitors. In your Google account (under Maps) you can create a map (via the ‘create a new map’ link) and then customize it to include areas you want to [...]
Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) has released a new ebook: ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging. I bought it last week, and here are my thoughts: Overall, it’s a clearly laid out roadmap for anyone starting a new blog. It’s also a good checklist for anyone who’s been blogging for a while but whose blog’s [...]
I had to buy a couple of things for the flat today and I went to the only place I know that had what I needed at the right price and the right quality: Ikea. But it was a trade off: price and quality vs convenience and experience, because Ikea stores frustrate the life out [...]
As frustrating and irritating as I often find Google and its services to be, it does have some good ones. Such as Picasa. One of my clients is a bar and restaurant here in Hong Kong and they often take pictures of parties and other events they hold. Being in the F & B industry, [...]
During 2010 I found a few sites and tools that brought joy to my online-life. Here’s a run down: Without doubt, my favourite discovery was the shopping cart application, Ecwid. This is a hosted shopping cart application which you can integrate with WordPress, Facebook, Blogger, MySpace and 14 other platforms. Plus your hand-built static HTML [...]
A while ago I wrote about activating Gzip to speed up your page load time. But speeding up your page load time is about a lot more than 1-shot answers – whether it’s activating Gzip, installing a caching plugin or anything else. This graph shows an interesting (and encouraging) trend: It’s from my Google Webmaster [...]
I did a website for a client recently. It’s a sports bar and he wanted a calendar to display details and times of the different sports events he was going to be screening at the bar each weekend. I always try to use commercially (or freely) available solutions for my clients. First of all it’s [...]