Gaining extra members for your newsletter is always welcome, but sometimes, methods to get these extra members are so glaringly obvious that we sometimes don’t see them.
Smiley Cat has posted an excellent tip on  how to do this from your site’s thank you page.
How many thank you pages does your websiite have? One or two? [...]

This is an excellent idea. This guy has done an excellent job of de-cluttering his desk by mounting excess computer equipment underneath the desk.
Genius idea, and looking at the price list, very cheap too!
I’ll be moving house soon so I may give this a go, although normally my phone/broadband connection is downstairs and my office [...]

Sometimes, in the web design and development industry you’ll come across a client that is a very novice computer user. That happened to me today.
The client in question is having a complete website designed and hosted with bespoke content management system built in.
The hosting obviously comes with email addresses, and here’s where the problem starts. [...]

My main business website has been around for over 5 years now. I can not believe I missed it’s 5th birthday. Doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! Anyway, that also means that my main business email address has too. Over the years, as you could imagine I’ve been getting more and more spam in [...]

Now I know this post doesn’t have much to do with web design and development, but it’s a lesson i’ve learned (almost the hard way) recently and I feel I should share it with you.
As you know by now I am a web designer/developer so you can probably imagine how important my computers are to [...]

Being an avid PC user since 286’s were cutting edge technology, I’ve often looked at the Apple range and wondered whether i’d ever get one.
There’s something about the sleek white case and gorgeous looks of the new 24″ iMac that is drawing me in. I’m nearly at the stage of getting one, but i’m not [...]

When running any web design business, you’ll inevitably come to a time like I had recently. I quoted a company almost a year ago and was told that they would deffinately go ahead with the work. Excellent I thought, all we need now is some text and images for your website.
Months went by and numerous [...]

A large part of my online time each day is taken up by reading various RSS feeds. Now, I use newsgator for my feeds for a couple of reasons.

I like the layout and ease of use
I can view it on multiple pc’s without installing software etc.

One of my little niggles about it is that when [...]

If you’re like me, and you have a nice high resolution monitor with loads of links on your Firefox bookmarks toolbar, here’s a handy tip:
If the website has a non-standard favicon.ico setup, drag the link to your bookmark toolbar, right click on it and delete the info in the “Name” field under properties. Then you [...]