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 [...]

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 [...]

Not sure about you but I myself have spent many an hour trying to get a LAMP installation working properly. Installing Apache with PHP only to find your Mysql install didn’t work properly.
All this is then compressed when your deadline is looming, your laptop crashes and you need to rebuild your machine fast so you [...]

Now in a perfect world applications would never error. The code would be totally flawless, it’ll account for any input that a user can desire to throw at it and do it quietly. However, lets be realistic, even the best planned, tested and implemented code can occasionally error and its important to catch it when [...]