http://www.binaryninja.co.uk 01000100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 00111111 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:09:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/top-wordpress-plugins-seo/ 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/switching-wordpress-permalinks-type-breaks-site-links/ 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 = ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/random-image-selection/ 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/informing-search-engines-about-your-sitemaps/ 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. ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/essential-firefox-add-ons/ 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2008/07/cowon-iaudio-d2-wow/ Have just installed the Sitemap Generator 2.7.1 Plugin for WordPress and I'm extremely impressed. Hassle free installation and great results which will keep Google informed of what I am doing. The plugin automatically rebuilds when I add a new post and then pings Google to let them know I have ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2007/03/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/ In the past I have transferred a large number of domain names across to new providers and I would quickly like to remind people to make the right choice in the first place to avoid hassle later on. There are a number of bad practices going on with the registration of ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2007/03/choosing-the-right-domain-name-provider/ 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2007/03/building-development-machines-the-easy-way/ 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 ... http://www.binaryninja.co.uk/2007/03/keeping-track-of-mysql-errors/