Sheffield Web Designer's Blog

Every now and again an idea pops into my head and hangs around long enough for me to notice it's there.  Sometimes it's a useful idea and sometimes it's idle musings.  I wouldn't like to say everything below is useful!

July 2009
Content Management & Video Recorders
I got to thinking the other day when my partner, Jeanette, asked me to program the video recorder before we went out for the evening: why do some people find such things so difficult.  I guess it's a mental block that afflicts a good number of people since that's why Video Plus was introduced.  [read more...]
May 2009
Search Engine Optimisation
Handling search engines seems to be widely regarded as a black art, second in its blackness only to figuring out the behaviour of visitors to your home page!  This article tries to prise some of the truth from the mystique that has grown up around search engine optimisation.  [read more...]
February 2009
Protecting Your Email Address

Quite precious things really, email addresses, they're part of your identity.  But as soon as you put one on to a website it becomes fair game for the internet low-life out there and you start getting all sorts of useless, even obnoxious, junk in your inbox.  What can you do about it?  [read more...]

January 2009
The Campaign for Real Measurements

We Brits have recently had the metric 'mks' system forced upon us (mks referring to the fundamental units of measurement: the meter, kilogram and second).  These of course replaced the old foot, pound and er... what did we measure time in?  That's one reason why the imperial system was replaced - it was incomplete and hopelessly complicated.  But what if we had a complete and logical imperial system every bit as good as the metric system?  We have!  The wonderfully eccentric and totally British, hundredweight, furlong, fortnight system.  [read more...]

There'll be more at irregular intervals so come back soon!

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