I’d like to bring your attention to Dustin of Panick-Serenade.net. This scummy little specimen is one of those particularly annoying web thieves; almost worthy of a Pants Award except I can’t be arsed to give one out. This little fool is particularly notable in that he’s ballsy, oh yes. Dustin’s header image is badly cropped… read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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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,… read full entry »

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… read full entry »

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 »