Dinner in Rick Stein’s – The Seafood Restaurant
Laura and I recently had a weekend break in Cornwall, and since we were there we decided to visit Rick Stein's The Seafood Restaurant. It had recently undergone a refurbishment…
Capitalization for us Mc’s and Mac’s!
Needed to capltalize Mc’s and Mac’s? Here’s a quick function for it…
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Principles of Web Design
When I undertake developing a website I always try to keep 3 key principles in mind;
1. Simplicity
2. Modularity
3. Balance
Follow my basic guide and you’ll become a better developer/designer…
ColdFusion – replace nl to br
Just a quickie if you need to replace NL (New Line or Carriage Return) in CFMX; <cfset text = replace(text,'#Chr(10)##Chr(13)#','<br>',"All")> You could also wrap it up in a CFC or…
SEO/SEM and the quality of your web traffic…
The people we (web designers/developers) create work for are always really interested in web traffic – LOTS of web traffic. But there is one thing that many web designers/developers and even our clients don’t consider, is the quality of traffic.
We (developers & clients alike) love counting page-views and unique visits but from my point of view, if the traffic you are attracting is poor, who cares if you get thousands of visits a day!
How can we determine the ‘quality’ of web traffic?
- Length of their visit…
- If you sell a service/product what your ‘conversion rate’ is…
- How many bookmark/’add-to-favorite’ your website.
- How many people visit your website by directly typing in your web address.
Choosing a SEO/SEM friendly domain name…
NOTE: SEO is the acronym for: ’search engine optimisation. Which is the process of making your web pages more search engine ‘friendly’ by optimising the code and content.
Choosing the correct domain name for your site generally has a big impact in terms of how it affects your positions in the search engines and your overall traffic.
THERE ARE 3 CRITICAL FACTORS, YOUR DOMAIN NAME…
- … should contain key words.
- … should be as short as possible – easy to remember & easy to type in.
- … can be better off as a .com over say a .net, org etc …
- … consider localisation of the domain… i.e. if you want it to do well in the UK .co.uk etc etc…
Creating good passwords…
Recently I was reviewing the security practices for my users... I like to get them to change their windows login regularly as it's used via LDAP etc etc in some…
Music from your iPod…
If like me you manually add to your iPod, then it can be a real pain when iTunes decides it doesn't want to recognise your iPod anymore, or you decide…