Optimise Your Site for iPhone – VERY Simply!

>> Written on June 8th, 2010 by Leon

Here’s a quick method of fixing some common problems with your site that might cause it to display weirdly in the now ubiquitous iPhone/iPod devices. My own lovingly crafted main site and blog design were nearly fine on the iPhone but there was strange resizing of both the background image and some of the navigation… READ THE FULL POST

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Using NextGen to Power an Animated WordPress Header

>> Written on May 28th, 2010 by Leon

I’m annoyed this hadn’t occured to me before today despite having used Wordpress and the NextGen Gallery plugin for years now! I was just about to knock together a custom flash header for a wordpress site and client who wanted a few banner images rotating to liven up his site when I… READ THE FULL POST

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Use your own Short URL’s for maximum Branding Effect!

>> Written on May 27th, 2010 by Leon

URL shorteners are used a lot these days, mostly on the likes of Twitter and Facebook to make sometimes ridiculously long urls short and sweet. I, like a lot of social media contributors, have my business blog setup to auto post to both Twitter and Facebook and Twitter in particular with it’s 140 character limit… READ THE FULL POST

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How to Transfer a .ie Domain to a new Owner

>> Written on April 20th, 2010 by Leon

I’m writing this article to document the process I’ve just gone through for the first time to transfer a .ie domain I owned to someone else. I’ll probably need to do this again some day so I can refer back here! It’s not the simplest process..

Step 1

Gather the new Registrants details… READ THE FULL POST

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External/Affiliate Link and Download Tracking in WordPress

>> Written on March 22nd, 2010 by Leon

I write reviews on my Wordpress blog here and obviously link to the website of the product or service I’m reviewing and it recently occurred to me that it might be handy to know exactly how many people I’m sending to these websites for free! I tried manually adding tracking to links in articles but… READ THE FULL POST

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Twitter Poll: About People or Search Engines?

>> Written on February 25th, 2010 by Leon

This post was prompted by something I read on an email list and on Linkedin the other day where the author seemed to have the view that Twitter was more about Search Engines than People. His argument was that Twitter is far too ‘noisy’ for people to actually read and interact but… READ THE FULL POST

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