Like many on the Internet I struggle to write grammatically correct sentences. I have no real excuse for this, aside from my teachers doing more refereeing than teaching, but I am at least trying to learn how to improve my grammar through writing a Blog. In many ways writing is the best way of learning [...]

During the night a website I had been working on for a friend needed some hefty changes to the database, involving optimisation, security-related bug fixes and integration with new scripts. The problem was that this was early in the morning, coming up to the peak time that users would want to use the websites’ services. [...]

The Internet has struggled with everything its received. Domain names have become a hassle for many individuals, companies and countries, hosting companies come and go without telling their customers, millions of users use websites that take little to no security practices into consideration, and so on.
A group of people that have suffered the most are [...]

When browsing the Internet today we’re accustomed to seeing the good ol’ “http://www” bit on the left side of our URL’s. However, it seems that a growing number of websites have decided that this is not good enough and have created rewrite rules to strip the “www” off of all their addresses, effectively turning http://www.example.com [...]

Over the past couple of years I have kept a small backlog of clients happy by adding their websites to every relevant directory I could find under their niches. Any time I find myself with nothing to do I’ll drag out my old list of URL’s and descriptions and register a large number of websites.
As [...]

With online video taking the Internet to new levels in entertainment pleasure there is a massive grey area that seems to be swamping not only those who live outside of the United States, but those living in there who want access to our shows. This grey area is International Restriction.
International Restriction is a cancer, not [...]

After browsing LinkedIn for a while to get the feel of the website and what it exactly offers I’ve noticed that a number of Web Designers have put “experienced in Web 2.0″ in their profiles/CV’s. For me, this is one of the worst moves you can make when adding things to any document detailing the [...]

There comes a time in some peoples’ lives when they come across a really great idea for a profitable website, one that no one has thought of or deployed successfully so far. These people have spent countless nights thinking about this idea and asked others to poke holes in the concept, but the idea is [...]

Occasionally a business may see the need to add some kind of social aspect to their website. For example, if you were selling software over the Internet and wanted to provide support in a community setting you may decide to install a forum script to handle this. If you were running a gaming website you [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this Blog (i.e. if you’re the author) you’ll know that I hate buzzwords and hype on the Internet. I’ve touched over the subject of Search Engine Optimisation a number of times, claiming it to not be the beginning and end of promotion on the Internet, and now I am [...]