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“I’ve been rather quiet here lately” is something I tend to read quite a bit when I read other folks blogs and bugger me if I’m doing it too Work is spent all day in front of a screen building new web pages while my after hours spare time seems to be taken up by [...]

I’m knee deep at the moment working on a new website for my employer and the amount of content to publish and layout can be quite overwhelming at times. That said the last few weeks have been an enjoyable (albeit steep at times) learning curve for me using the CMS I’m building the site with. I [...]

After updating my blog software to this latest release I have to say I’m very happy with it. There have been a few nice extra features added and a bunch of bug fixes as well. If you have not updated your blog software for a while I suggest you download this version and act now!

This is the name of the new content management software I’ve been playing around with at work for the past few weeks. It’s great and well worth a play if you have the time and tech to support it. There are a number of nice websites built using this kit including Radio New Zealand and [...]

I’ve been using the Expression Studio suite of apps for a couple of years now and I really like them. Expression Web gives CS4 Dreamweaver a good run for its money in terms of ease of use and functionality offered. Put simply the software suite allows web designers to build nice standards compliant web sites [...]

For several hours as folks first strove to hear the news of Jackson’s death then reacted to it by posting, blogging etc. the Internet slowed significantly. Sites like TMZ.COM and the LA Times fielded massive increases in the number of hits and slowed to a halt. I like this artists take on the Twitter ‘fail whale’

This is a great service and well worth setting up your own account with them. Why? Simple with Bit.ly you get far more user data about how your referred links are performing that you ever did using the (old de facto standard) Tinyurl url shortener service. Take this post for example. I will post a [...]