I know that when I rant about web standards and usability I am usually called a fun-spoiler or told that I think too much, but there are reasons for my annoyance at people’s disregard for compliance and any sort of basic testing and that’s because — despite being a developer; far above that even — […]
Category: Interwebs
Anything and everything vaguely internet related. Blogging, industry, social media: if you can find it online, I’ve talked about it in here.
WordPress is Shit
Anyone had problems with WordPress 2.2.1? I upgraded Karl’s blog and now he can’t post properly and there’s a fatal error in the admin panel. Grr!
CSS: Using the Cascade
Some of the biggest benefits of CSS include the space, time and bandwidth it can save you. Except that most web enthusiasts and developers — roughly familiar with the reasoning behind CSS — don’t actually bother to look into it properly so they end up bloating their stylesheets with unnecessary crap, thus defeating the point […]
On Being Wrong
One of the biggest problems with being an arrogant sod is that sometimes I get over-confident and cocky. This becomes a particularly bad habit when I’m using that cockiness to inform other people; highlighted just this week by my script ‘analysis’ of LittleWallOButtons. Unless I’m particularly unsure about whether or not I could be wrong, […]
More Insecure Scripts
As well as updating my Unsafe Scripts page to give more clarification about which scripts are bad and which are not (with funky icons!) I have also added two new brief reviews… Link Up Free Link Up Free is susceptible to more complex SQL injection through the search box, executing any code that is entered […]
The Internet Sucks
Yes, you read that right, the Internet suxxors. It was the Internet that told me that it was going to rain all day Friday which is why I made the decision not to go out with my camera. It was sunny most of the day — until late afternoon when we had a massive storm. […]
Pants: candi-coded.com
It wasn’t the particularly crappy layout, the mismatched colour scheme or the tiny text that convinced me to give “c a n d i – c o d e d [ dot ] c o m” a Pants Award. It wasn’t even the teeny-bopper cliché spaces in the title. No, it was the ‘four reasons […]
Sitescore
Sitescore came back up recently (after what seemed an age) and since then I’ve been getting slightly obsessed with it. In fact, if the people at Sitescore send me a bill for the bandwidth I’ve used up — editing and retesting my site — I wouldn’t be surprised. My key aim at the moment is […]
So There We Go
My Mum mentioned to me this evening that I never did follow up my entry on the swans and she’s right. I realised that I’ve not followed up on any of my entries for months, barely discussing anything but superficial crap and the Internet. So here I am, telling you how things are with me… […]
Jem’s Top Traffic Tips
I’ve given advice on Promoting Your Website as well as my Top Five SEO Tips before, but neither really address how to get the traffic coming in once you’ve followed the tips and suggestions. In this article I hope to give you a head start in getting those all important hits by providing you with […]