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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…

The new Landlord Law – the reality

New Landlord Law

Well, further to my previous post, Landlord Law has now gone live.  Its basically, good but there have been a few problems. Landlord Law! Where is it? The first thing was the massive delay in seeing it.  We switched the namesevers over early on Wednesday, and lots of  people started logging in and using the…

The impossible journey

The new Landlord Law logo

A new year, a new Landlord Law It started in January.  I decided to change hosting companies and asked my web designer if my website (that is my membership site Landlord Law) could be moved over to the new company I had chosen which is called UK Fast. Turned out that they couldn’t, so I…

PHP – a journey into the unknown

php logo

Php for lawyers? Today and yesterday I did something which few solicitors of my generation have done, or will ever do. I attended a computer training course on php (for beginners, naturally). “What on earth” I hear you ask “is php?” What is php? Php which originally stood for Personal Home Page, when it was…

A new Headway design for the Solicitors Online Blog

The Solicitors Online Blog new design October 2010

The Headway blog theme For some time, the design of this blog has been rather boring, essentially just dark blue and white. It was running the fabulous Headway theme but only version one. The reason for this is that I had had problems upgrading.  Indeed I had tried to upgrade one day only to have…

Review of the Legal Web 2010/2100 by Delia Venables and Nick Holmes

Nick and Delia's ebook

The Legal Web Are you feeling ignorant about the internet. Worried about wikis? Baffled by blogs? Or intimidated by twitter? You need a bit of professional training and guidance. Allow me to introduce the answer. This is the new ebook and CPD course from Nick and Delia on Modern Practice Topics for Solicitors. Nick and…

Social Media – Whats the point? (Part 3)

Social Media buttons

A very useful function of social media is to allow you to keep up to date easily.  How?  Well: You can follow blogs via RSS If you use the Google homepage method, then on your Google homepage will be blocks for each of the blogs you follow with a list of the most recent three…

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…