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Storage solutions – Amazon web service and S3Stats

S3Stat

I have started going into multi media.  There is the Landlord Law Podcasts and the Landlord Law YouTube channel.  Exciting stuff.  And I am planning to do more audios and videos, both promotional and in due course as part of the content of my membership site. However these mulitmedia files are very big.  I was…

Navigation for wordpress posts and pages

navigation in a blog

Wordpress navigation I like to be able to move around my blog easily.  And for a long time I have been really annoyed by the fact that there were no ‘next post’ or ‘previous post’ links at the bottom of my blog posts. This is present on many sites automatically, but not on mine.  I…

Favicons

A screenshot of the favicon.cc web-site

I love favicons.  They are those tiny little icons that sit in the address bar next to the website url/web address.  I think they look really cool, and differentiate (for me) sites where attention is paid to detail from all the others. Apart from  aesthetic values, I think it is very important to have a…

Blogging – What is it?

bellesmall

As most people will know, a blog is a sort of online diary – the name is a shorted form of weblog. The blog owner will blog ‘posts’ which will appear in a list with the most recent at the top. Blogs have been around for some time, and most people are familiar with them….

E-newsletters

You read it on this

If you have a web-site, you need some way to capture the contact details of those who visit, so you can keep in touch with them, and stay in the forefront of their minds. Then (so the theory goes) when they need a solicitor they will think of you first. The standard way of doing…

Twitter

twitter

Twitter has been very much in the news recently, what with high profile twitterers such as Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross. But is it something law firms should do? I have been ‘twittering’ for a few months now. In many ways it is a bit of a timewaster. However I have discovered the following ways…