Random posts about developing online businesses
Here are the different website topics that we have available. They've mostly been written by our Drupal web developer, Guy Doughty. They include both technical web development and general website topics.
An overview of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
The way We think of SEO is as a process. A process for increasing the exposure / rankings of a website within the "organic" search results.
Organic or sometimes called natural search results are the free...
"Content is king!" is a term that has been used between SEOers since it all begun. Today it is no different. Content is still king!!!
Everything, when it comes down to it, begins with content. It is the content that will determine your position for any given query or...
You have probably worked out that we're big on Drupal here and Drupal is itself open source. To date every website that we have designed and developed has been built on top of Drupal. Drupal can be downloaded right now for free.
A default copy of Drupal will be very basic in...
Here's something that many people don't expect. The About us / me page is one of the most visited pages on any website.
This makes sense really. Visitors read a couple pages of "What's in it for me?" ie what you offer and how you can fulfill their needs. Some...
What is SSL?
SSL secures transmissions between our visitors computer and our website.
A SSL certificate is the thing we buy in order to turn everything into gibberish whilst in transit. Slightly over simplifying.
Depending on the certificate, the verification process differs....
After an update to ProFTPd package, the server (Plesk Panels 11.5.3 on CentOS 6.5) stopped allowing incoming connections. A somewhat awkward situation for active developers, even more so when hosting client websites.
After checking the Xinetd logs at...
This is a quick post. I've just spent hours getting Geshi to properly format special characters. Namely "<" and ">" being the most annoying.
You see when you have ckeditor installed it encodes special characters into HTML. So you end up...
Structured data mark up is fairly new and is used by Google to better understand your website. There are various things, or better said objects, that you can add mark-up to. Such as:
Reviews
Breadcrumbs
Local businesses
Social network profiles
Videos
Music...
When looking at our homepage today. I was surprised to notice that all the Facebook likes had gone.
Particularly strange because we had done nothing that could possibly have broken it.
So whilst getting to the bottom of it, I wondered if things had changed at Facebook...
71% of Internet users are on Facebook.
Who wants to create a new account on your website to quickly post a comment? Would you? We wouldn't unless we really really wanted to leave the comment.
By allowing a visitor to post via Facebook, we remove a huge...
