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(See our other tips here.) Back To Basics Okay, so first up is a little gem. What is your average customer WORTH? You don’t know? That’s not surprising, a lot of business owners don’t. It’s easy to work out – o Total the number of Clients you have in a Read the Rest…
If you care about the success of your business and web presence, then you’re going to want to read what I have to say about the ongoing impact of the Google Panda update. Don’t worry, this is not going to be over-the-top technical, or just for the eyes of geeks. Read the Rest…
So, let’s get cracking In last month’s Tips, we showed you Google +1, Dropbox and 1Password. Some amazing benefits to small business owners in that lot. I might even get the T-shirts. This month we give you some super-simple, quick & easy tips that are often overlooked on the keyboard Read the Rest…
So, let’s get cracking Here are 3 tips that any business owner can benefit from without throwing their PC (or Mac) through the window: (See our other tips here.) #1 – Google +1 is here! If you haven’t heard of it already, then you have now. If you’re not sure Read the Rest…
If you’re concerned about the speed that your web page loads at then this is a great tool: Sprite Me makes it super simple to sprite up images with a little Bookmark tool. Excellent for sites that don’t already have their images sprited.
Just checked my stats and noticed that the popularity of Browsers is as follows: #1 Firefox #2 Chrome #3 Internet Explorer Chrome has about a 13% lead on IE according to these stats. Heh-heh! Anyone else seeing a similar pattern recently? Would love to hear from you if you are Read the Rest…
So, let’s get cracking Here are 3 tips that any business owner can achieve without throwing their PC (or Mac) through the window: they run from super-easy at #1, to more advanced by #3. (See our other tips here.) #1 – Go-Go Google Local! Often overlooked, Google Local is a Read the Rest…
Web users go to the Internet to learn, communicate or be entertained in the most efficient way possible. Most Internet surfers are familiar only with clicking buttons, arrows, mouses, search boxes or links. Unlike their techie counterparts who know their way around computers, lazy surfers who don’t immediately get what Read the Rest…
Good grief. I dip into some code for 5 minutes one day….then a few weeks later when I see the light of day again, not only is IE9 out, but there’s a Firefox 4?
Handy little plugin for Firefox that allows you to drag on the browser window to check the width and height of your layout. Measure It – useful if you want to quickly check widths to tweak your css without retyping / guess-timating 3 times…… FoxGuide – handy rulers ala Photoshop.
Here’s one that was a ‘doh’ moment for me – wish I’d found it sooner. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dom-inspector-6622/ If you’re messing around with web apps / php / apache / mysql / ajax (frameworks like Symfony / CodeIgniter / Kohana – you get the picture), this is sweet. The DOM tree seems Read the Rest…
If you’re after a lightweight, highly configurable clipboard manager for Windows 7 (x64 in my case) then Ditto could be for you. xNeat seems to not be compatible with Windows 7 x64 at the time of writing, and after trying to run xNeat in compatibility mode for Vista SP2 / Read the Rest…
Another nifty thing I’ve discovered about Scribefire (posts to your blog direct from Firefox), is that it will pop your post to your Delicious account also. Simply select the option ‘bookmark post at del.icio.us using same tags, enter your login details, bingo.
Nice Netbeans colour scheme – if you want to customise your workspace from the defaults offered in Netbeans, try this:
I'll pay for an answer to: PHPUnit running slowly. If you think you can help, or know someone who can help with PHP / Symfony pls retweet! #
If you’re trying to install Zend Framework with Wamp for local development, then hopefully this will help. I’m assuming you’ve already got Wamp up and running, then tried the Zend Framework Quickstart and it had a head-fit on you… We’ll keep it simple. Either extract/install as I do below letter Read the Rest…
I’m using Posterous at the moment, but a little concerned that my blog won’t be the original poster as posterous may get spidered first. I love the functionality of posterous though – images in the right order etc. My problem with the Postie WordPress plugin seems to be that images Read the Rest…
Okay. It’s 20 to midnight, I know it’s stupid, but I got really bored. Tonight, I’ll be mostly eating…Zend Framework and Wamp for some lovely web development. I know they’re supposed to get on like chalk and mouldy cheese, but let’s see what happens. I’ll post back with an update Read the Rest…
If you’re working in a development environment where the number of developers > 1, then the likelihood is you’ll want some kind of SVN / code repository / revision / version control in place. Or failing that, a good yoga teacher and some valium. We’re currently using GIT for our Read the Rest…
So, you’re developing your shiny new WordPress theme with Dreamweaver CS5… Here’s how you enable site specific code hints for WordPress. Dead simple. We’ll assume you already have your site defined for your web design and have set your Testing Server server model to PHP MySQL
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