I have been chasing the webmasters holy grail recently of trying to drive more traffic into this site including looked at a number of different areas such as SEO and social bookmarking. I have found a number of Word Press plugins which have made the process a lot easier. How successful they are, only time [...]

On researching SEO techniques and stumbling across the wordpress plugin, SEOSlug I realised that the permalink method I had employed on this site was not the best.
So I quickly popped in to the admin tool and swapped the Permalinks for the site over to use ‘Month and Name’ instead of the previously chosen ‘Numeric’. [...]

This is a neat little trick I sometimes use to freshen up websites that suffer from heavy text content The script will use an array of predefined images that exist in a directory and choose at random one of the images from within it.

// PHP Random Image Selecter
$arr_img_list = array(’1.jpg’,'2.jpg’,'3.jpg’,'4.jpg’,'5.jpg’,'6.jpg’,'7.jpg’,'8.jpg’,'9.jpg’);
$i_lower_limit = 0;
if(count($arr_img_list)>0){
$i_upper_limit [...]

Whilst wondering why MSN had only indexed 2 of my pages, I stumbled across an easy way to inform multiple search engines about the presence of my Sitemap. The main three engines have agreed to check in the robots.txt file for the location of your sitemap. Heres what mine now looks like:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/sitemap.xml.gz
I believe [...]

There are some cracking Firefox Add-ons available lately which really help to speed up the development process. I have listed the top ones I have been using which are definitely worth having a look at. To access, inside Firefox, simply click Tools, Add-ons which will fire up the Add-ons page. You can then search for [...]

ok, Its been a while since my last post but I am hopefully back to provide you with some more (hopefully) useful information. However, before I get going, I want to quickly tell you about my latest buy, a Cowon iAudio D2 portable multimedia player.
Why did I not go for a Sony Walkman (DRM [...]