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Everything You Wanted to Know About Country IP Blocks

Stephen Proffitt — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:23:05 +0100

I recently came across a need for Country based IP blocking in Apache, it took a couple of days looking around in Google when I stumbled across Country IP Blocks -- by far the easiest solution for knocking off various bots and spammers from cluttering up your website.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Country IP Blocks
Are you frustrated with malicious attacks originating from specific countries?
We were too! We responded to these ...

We Venture Into The World Of Online Dating ...

Stephen Proffitt — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:32:53 +0100

With online dating becoming increasingly popular, many new dating websites are being launched regularly. These newly launched websites make many promises hoping to attract customers. Unfortunately not all matchmaker websites keep up to their promises. This results in many unsatisfied customers who want to have taste romance through online dating websit...

How To Do Keyword Research

Stephen Proffitt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:19:50 +0100

Doing Keyword research and Using the right tools to get the keyword information you need is essential if you want to build a successful website.

Keyword Research

Keywords are the most essential part of website creation, especially if you want your website to out perform your competitors. And Since you are here reading this Blog, you must be looking for a way to do that and improve your Search Engine Rankings and user experience on your website.

Improving your web...

10 Things Your Web Developer Won't Tell You (Unless You Ask)

Stephen Proffitt — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:13:28 +0100

Web development is an awesome business. Yeah, there's tons of competition - more than you can imagine - but there's always plenty of work for developers who treat clients properly and do good work that provides value for clients.

These days, in particular, there's a lot of business to go around. Lately I've been talking to a lot of ...

Things You Must Know Before Building Your Small Business Website

Stephen Proffitt — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

With an array of inexpensive do-it-yourself options, there is room for a lot of questions and confusion when hiring a web designer for your business. Do you try to do it yourself? If so, how do you know you have done a good job. If I were to hire a company to design my website, how do I know how m...

Why we like Joomla

Stephen Proffitt — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:10:20 +0100

A large number of our clients are not a new business looking for a website, but existing businesses looking to upgrade to a site that is not only more current, but something that they are able to update themselves. Using a Content Management System like Joomla is what allows our clients to update their own site and stay current with specials, prices, newsletters etc. While full...

Website Marketing Tip: Keyphrases, Not Keywords

Stephen Proffitt — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:31:59 +0100

A good website marketing strategy includes picking keywords, when doing so bear in mind that 80% of searches are key phrases of 3 words or more, aiming for a simple keyword for your interior design company like the keyword “design”, will probably not herald the best results and you will not achieve these high end keywords without a massive b...

Research in the Real World

Stephen Proffitt — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:57:14 +0100

Freelance Web Designers sometimes don’t get out much, I admit just last year my typical research technique was to check out the competitors websites and study the sector from the online comforts of Wikipedia. You should still use websites for research but why not include a further myriad of offline bricks and mortar resources in the real world.

How often do you use Lorem Ipsum in design mock-ups? Many of us do – it helps us to visualize ideas and design layouts.

The actual content however is often left to the last minute - “the client is going to email it ” or “site users will be creating that”...

So you want to be a Web Designer

Stephen Proffitt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:42:07 +0100

I’m going to assume in this post that you have some experience coding XHTML/CSS and you can implement or hack up Javascript and you desperately want to start your own web marketing business. I’m also assuming that you plan on starting your web business on your own, for the most part.

Ideally, you should start an LLC or other limited liability company to fro...