MS Excel Web Query is one of my favourite bits of kit, I used it extensively when I worked in Finance, and I still use it regularly at eantics Ltd for some applications. It basically lets you bring data off a web page and use it in your workbook. That could be internet, intranet, or [...]

Anyone following my blog will know my frustration, shared by my clients, and many thousands of other webmasters no doubt, in relation to doorway page spamming.  It is against the Google Webmaster Guideines, yet it is dominant in many search results.
My stance is DON’T go that route  - instead build a better resource, write more unique and high quality content; [...]

If you use the Wordpress Log In link in your wordpress theme, one thing that is probably worth doing is modifying your wp_loginout function to add rel=”noindex,nofollow” as per the example below. It’s a very straightforward tweak.
We’re led to believe “nofollow” will prevent page rank being passed to the linked pages, the aim being to prevent [...]

Email marketing, not to be confused with spam, is a valuable and cost effective way of keeping in contact with your users, subscribers, and customers.  Email marketing implies you have a list of people who are happy to receive your communications, whereas spam is unsolicited and mostly irrelevant email. Please don’t spam.
Despite email marketing’s low cost, as with any [...]

It’s everything you shouldn’t want in a development environment, two webservers - IIS 7.0 and Apache 2.2, both of which must run PHP on a Windows Vista Business platform?  There’s a bit of method behind the madness but not much. 
Though this is not simple to configure it is not impossible, the main point of my post being to [...]

If you host Wordpress on Fasthosts you might have some extra work to do to make sure your Wordpress installation can send new user and comment notification emails.  Fasthosts require you to take a couple of extra steps in your scripts in order to validate and send your email - this is to help prevent [...]

I was asked to get the products to display in an order the client determined, but couldn’t find a mechanism within the wp e-commerce plugin administration panel to do this. A trawl through the database tables indicated that a product_order table existed, but wasn’t being used. I expect this is work in progress, or reserved for one [...]