Things I have found around the Internet
I recently worked on and launched a website for a very large, and very well known global organisation. Within a couple of hours of the site being launched it was receiving thousands of unique visits every hour. The website in question was quite busy, but the business it was involved in is quite light-hearted and [...]
In the past I have used several different online ad platforms for a little bit of advertising here and there, but the two that I (along with the majority of e-marketers) prefer is Google AdWords. Recently I have begun using Google AdWords more heavily. There is a lot of hype about Google AdWords and how [...]
Recently I began a project with two other guys. The idea was simple; get a group of people signed up to a web site that asks you a unique question every day. This question changes at midnight and you can view your friends answers and comment on them. The project was finished about a week [...]
How perceptive do you think you are? If you were walking down the street would you notice a couple having a domestic? Would you spot someone slipping on something on the pavement? Would you notice if your favourite shop that you walk passed every day changed their layout? Some of us are more perceptive than [...]
Ever heard of Geocities? Most web savvy people have. Well it’s parent company, Yahoo have decided to pull the plug on Geocities and tomorrow (26th October) Geocities will be gone forever and all web sites currently hosted on there will be deleted. In the late 90′s and early 00′s Geocities was the first (and only [...]
You might think of Google as your doorway to the Internet. Google is the search engine most people use to find what they’re looking for on the Internet. But the fact is, Google is a brand and the search is simply their flag ship product. Google releases new products regularly, they have well over 50 [...]
I’ve been using PayPal for web site payments for years now. I love the way you can just sign up for an account and begin taking payments quickly, unlike a lot of gateways where you need merchant accounts with banks and written permission and what not. I always recommend PayPal to my clients as it [...]
Downtime Prevention is not a new concept. It does seem, however, that there aren’t too many places doing it right. One place I have found exceeding expectation though, is a web site offering downtime alerts and downtime notifications. The clever system checks your web site periodically for PHP errors, Apache errors, 404′s, 403′s, poor re-directs, [...]
The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the world’s most high-profile file-sharing web site. Recently its owners have been in the news a lot due to them being caught and prosecuted under copyright law by the music industry. The web site’s owners were taken to court, found guilty and sentenced to one year in jail in April. [...]
You may or may not know that the HTML 5 specification is nearing completion. Normally browsers begin implementing the features of a new mark-up version long before the specification is completed so that developers can begin writing web pages and the browsers will be ready to cope with them. HTML 5 is no exception. HTML [...]