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What the FTP is going on?

By Chris Martin in Web Development on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 10:06

Following recent conversations with web developers, whilst trying to obtain FTP access for prospective client’s sites, I have begun to notice a certain trend developing in the response from said developers and it has led me to wonder what the big secret is.When advising clients on search... read more

Market Share, the internet tracking firm, has today released its latest statistics for operating system usage. It reveals that Apple's share of the internet-connected operating system market has increased to over 8%.Whilst they're still not challenging Microsoft's dominance, it does show that... read more

Normal procedure for using mod_rewrite is to translate friendly url's into something your underlying server technology can interpret. Something like:RewriteRule ^blog-blog-title-(14)\.html$ blog.php?id=$1 [L]But recently I had to do the process in reverse which seemed straightforward:RewriteCond... read more

One of the problems I've come across when dealing with clients who are developing their first websites or looking to redevelop an  existing site is the tendency to overcomplicate the planning process.From the business owner's perspective, I've come up with the following 5 questions to... read more

AVG, once seen as one of the best free anti-virus software packages on the market is now a webmaster's nightmare.  Some of you may be aware that the latest version of AVG (version 8) comes with a new feature called Link Scanner. Link Scanner pre-scans links on a web search... read more

All developers work for Microsoft

By Darryl Browne in Web Development on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 11:34

Anyone who has spent any significant amount of time developing websites will be familiar with the ongoing crusade of patching and hacking around Internet Explorer 6 issues. The amount of development time this consumes can be quite significant and we'd rather have more time to spend on new... read more

Safari so good

By Mike Blackburn in Web Development on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 @ 09:03

Through our website analysis software we've noticed an increase in the number of browsers using Apple's Safari. Last month around 5% of the traffic on one of our e-commerce client's website was viewed using the Safari browser. The ramp up in traffic has been quite dramatic over recent... read more

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