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… read full entry »
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… read full entry »
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…… read full entry »
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… read full entry »
As you may or may not have heard, there was a recent security breach at DreamHost affecting roughly 3,500 accounts (and they were just the ones they admitted to). I don’t know the exact details of the hows and whys, but I do know that the most common ‘side effect’ is that people are finding… read full entry »
I’ve decided to start reviewing again in my free time…
How can we expect a generation of young coders and developers to learn what the meaning of words like “syntax”, “property”, “element” and “attribute” are, if even Google gets it wrong: Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.(source) Ten points for anyone who can spot the mistake there. (Why should… read full entry »
Three times over the last month (that’s four weeks, not since the 1st of June) I’ve received envelopes from my bank absolutely stuffed with various adverts for loans, a variety of different accounts, online banking, etc. This is all printed on very shiny/glossy paper, which I believe (but could be wrong about) is not recyclable… read full entry »
Four new pictures and a new article.
I’ve been flicking through some of my pages this evening correcting typos/etc and have realised that so many of my pages are hideously outdated. Some of my “articles” (I use that term loosely — I really mean uneducated ranting and/or whining) are so bad that they’re verging on becoming scandalous lies. OK, so that’s a… read full entry »