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Cricket Journalists are easily confused!!

Jon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:09:04 +0000

Cricket is a huge passion of mine and its quite amusing when the cricket writers and journalists get confused about what’s happening. A quick background: Andy Flower who is the sort of stand in coach for the England cricket team did interviews with Sky Sports and the BBC about the awful performance of the team in [...]

10 ways links are hidden

Jon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:19:06 +0000

After my post on Sensible link exchanging, we had an interesting comment from Steve who linked through to an article he wrote about the ways people try to hide your links. Its a sad fact that there’s a few out there that will try to hide any links on their site thinking they are getting [...]

Make your own Favicon

Jon — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:12:27 +0000

Have you ever wondered how to get that cool little image appearing next to your website in peoples favourites and in the browser bar at the top ? Its really easy and only take a few minutes. The little image is called a Favicon and it will appear next to your website name whenever anyone puts [...]

Gravatars follow you from blog to blog

Jon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:09:00 +0000

Gravatar stands for Globally Recognised Avatar and its something that shows up on our blog and many, many others. Its a small graphic avatar that you can link up with your email address and when you make a comment on a blog the avatar shows next to you name. On our blog you’ll find the Gravatar’s [...]

Gmail in Google Apps

Jon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:00:45 +0000

Continuing with our features about Google Apps we’re taking a good look at Gmail, Google’s web based email package which was the main reason we decided to use Google Apps for our communications. Gmail is something different, we’ve used Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, our own web mail but Gmail is like an F1 car compared to these. [...]

Sensible link exchanging

Jon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:00:29 +0000

I get a lot of questions about the best way to exchange links - How many links, what to do with keywords, how to arrange links, what type of sites to exchange with……. Here’s a few do’s and dont’s for sensible link exchanging. DO’S……… Do exchange links with web sites that are related to your topic. If [...]

Add a thin border to images

Jon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:00:49 +0000

Adding a thin border to images can help them stand out a little better or just finish them off, especially images on white backgrounds. You can do this with a simple bit of HTML. Add an in line style to the <img> tag to make the border: <img style=”border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color:black;” ………………. This produces a nice [...]

Google slimming down ?

Jon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:24:00 +0000

Google have announced that they are closing or stopping development on a few of their services. Is this signs of them slimming down to protect themselves during the recession ? I would imagine that during the next year or so Google are going to be more focused on the bottom line than developing new innovate services, [...]

Get Rid of Space Around Forms and H1 Tags

Jon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:28:26 +0000

Nothing looks more unsightly than a HTML <form> tag that has all that horrible space around it - the same goes for the <h1> tag. Don’t despair its easy to fix with a small addition to your style sheet or an inline style. Here’s the fix for the <form> tag: Add the following to your style sheet FORM { [...]

Why we use Google Apps

Jon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:50:37 +0000

About a year ago I came to a decision that our email system was not working for us. We managed our own domain, mail server and read email using Microsoft Outlook. We felt it was slow, difficult to find old emails and tricky to find an decent backup solution. It was also a huge pain [...]