More and more people are working on the move. Mobile phones are bcoming increasingly powerful and many now offer internet access. Yet most sites are optimised for proper sized screens, not miniature ones.
I like the idea of people being able to read my blog while on the move, so I went looking for some mobile [...]
If a picture paints a thousand words, you will want to keep them in your excerpts!
An excerpt, in case you did not know, is a reduced version of a post which goes below the initial post on the home page. So you get one post in full and then a lot of excepts. Shortened [...]
I don’t know about you, but I find I am using the internet all the time. I am constantly looking things up, checking facts and the law before I write something, or seeing what new blog posts have been written by others. And I want to get there quickly with no tedious looking [...]
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation (in case you didn’t know). Bloggers, as well as having to write readable copy, are also supposed to optimise it for the search engines. Personally I have never really bothered that much with SEO, trying instead to write interesting articles of the sort which hopefully the search engines would [...]
To get exposure for your blog, it is really important nowadays to promote it via social media. One of the best ways of doing this is to get other people to promote it for you! You do this by giving them handy little buttons and links. My theme, the Headway theme provides social media buttons [...]
If you learn about the internet and how it works as I do, by picking it up piecemeal as you go along, there are often huge gaps in your knowledge that you don’t realise. One has been revealed to me recently about email.
My business email has always been downloaded to my email client (Eudora or [...]
I spent much of last year studying and reading about social media and how it works. This year it is time to put some of this into practice.
I have therefore started an experimental new service for lodger landlords. My existing service, Landlord Law, does cater for people renting a room to a lodger, but lodger [...]
I’ve found another great plugin, although its got a bit of a silly name, and a soppy heart logo. Its called ‘comment luv’ (I said it was silly), and what it does is give a link back to the most recent post on your blog commentators blogs. I learned about it from the Blogussion site here.
“Why [...]
It is 23 December 2009 and I have just recieved through the post my 2009/2010 solicitors practising certificate.
As it is expressed to run from 1 November 2009 (and I started paying for it in October) I can’t help feeling that this is a bit on the late side. Its a good thing none of my [...]
Using the internet seems a bit like magic. You click on your computer and the fruits of knowledge of the whole world are at your fingertips. Just like that.
And now we are told that we do not even have to store information on our own machines – we can store it all ‘in the cloud’. [...]
