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If you don’t know, or don’t need to know HTML, specifically how to use CSS to float objects (such as embeddable video content) to the left or the right (i.e. in the style of the videos in Remix.vg, the best remix chart, mashup chart and covers chart on the internet, IMO) then close your ears [...]

Its time for me to don my hat as Google’s #1 Lord of the Internet and allow you to know of the biggest threats facing the webmaster of 2010: content scraping, and pingback spam. The first issue, Content scraping, is increasingly frustrating our attempts to provide accurate unique content as, every good website we have [...]

Its time for some more SSH commands that you might well be looking for. Sometimes, like after having changed your my.cnf file, you might want to restart your MySQL server in order for your most recent changes to take effect. Other times, your MySQL server might be ‘spazzing’ due to some other hateful problem which [...]

Well, you probably noticed, if you are an aficionado of The World’s Greatest Blog – and aren’t there just so many of you out there! – that yesterday we added a little banner of advertising to the bottom of every post on this blog. This betrayal comes after I ranted and raved about many things [...]

Seriously, stores need to think about what they are doing when it comes to the online “space” these days. A lot of stores are seriously wanting when it comes to web promotion, relying on bumpf and huff and puff rather than the three central tenets of e-commerce mastery: a good product, solid website design and [...]

I was just tinkering around with the Remix Submission buttons over at Remix.vg (I made the button massive because people weren’t able to see the small one that was there before!) and noticed a couple of spelling and grammatical errors that were probably floating around at the bottom of that page for a long old [...]

Forgive me another flagrant piece of marketing material, as I use our personal sounding box to let you know about a new business project we are launching today: Allied Equine Classifieds. I think the clue is in the title with this one (shouldn’t it always be??!!) but, in case you are still grasping around mentally [...]

Are trade shows, expos and summits important to the success of an industry; a much needed reason to get together and let our hair down; or a distraction from the necessary functions of doing business? I’m never quite sure what to make of all of the trade show, expo and summit invitations I receive in [...]

Our free recipes website, Recipe85.com, has this week had a makeover providing a much needed new theme that is uncluttered, and supports the placement of recipes, and removes a lot of unneccessary bumf from the sidebars. The really great thing about Recipe 85 now is that there is so much space devoted to the recipe, [...]

I thought long and hard before writing this post – not least because it does sometimes seem that the only time I ever write in this most personal of blogs is to either a) make a complaint, b) spout about some business thing or other we might be setting up or, c) something technical or [...]