Should I celebrate Christmas!?

>> Written on December 18th, 2007 by Leon

Another Christmas is just around the corner and the usual crap songs, decorations, routines and sales drives have been rolled out and I can’t help but feel dreary & uninterested – more so each year. Of course I can’t display this apathy or I’ll be accused of not getting into the ’spirit’. Like any child, Christmas was always special for me, something magical and different and I remember hanging onto it for as long as I could. Even when I found out that the main man wasn’t real around 12/13 I pretended he was! Read the full article »

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Get links into your Website

>> Written on December 13th, 2007 by Leon

The single most effective way of optimizing your site or having it perform well in the search engines is to get as many links TO it as possible. Once upon a time and still to a certain extent today people were fixated with getting reciprocal links which means “I’ll give you a link if you give me one”! This method of trying to get Google to notice you is almost certainly useless as Google will look at the reciprocal link and think, oh they’ve done that just to impress us. Google normally doesn’t do what you tell it to and prefers instead to organically find your site on its own merits. Chances are that it will ignore ‘links’ pages with loads of outgoing links. Also it doesn’t really make sense to provide your visitors with a means of leaving your site does it!? Read the full article »

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Searching the Internet

>> Written on December 13th, 2007 by Leon

The Internet has always been most useful when used as an informational resource and contained on its many billion pages is a wealth of information, some completely useless admittedly, but a lot of it is of some value. Read the full article »

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Add a Blog to your site

>> Written on December 8th, 2007 by Leon

Adding a Blog to your private (hosted on your own server) website is generally regarded as a great way to attract the search engines and make your site that bit more interesting. This is because a regularly maintained and interesting blog adds a lot of CONTENT to your site and the search engines like lots of content. The content comes from what you yourself write about but also from what comments others leave in response to your posts. If you can manage to write as an authority in your subject/business area then others will find your content and ultimately your site when they search for related information online. Read the full article »

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The Internet and Communication

>> Written on December 8th, 2007 by Leon

Apart from using the internet as an informational resource, you can also use it as a means of communication with fellow workers, family, friends, or complete strangers! There are a number of ways you can do this and I will discuss some of them below: Read the full article »

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How to add your Email Address to Outlook Express

>> Written on December 6th, 2007 by Leon

Most computers come with Outlook Express installed by default and if you have an email address, (or lots of email addresses!) then you can add them all to Outlook Express and check them all at once. You can even read your messages and reply to them offline if your internet connection is bad or pricey! Heres how to add an existing email address to Outlook Express: Read the full article »

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How to start Buying and Selling on Ebay

>> Written on December 3rd, 2007 by Leon

Ebay is a website that most people will have heard of by now and it enables the average person to buy and sell online from the comfort of their own homes. You can trade with people from all around the world buying almost anything you can think of and usually at prices that high street stores and even other websites can never hope to match. Most sales are by auction which means you bid on whatever catches your eye and if you are still the highest bidder when the auction closes then you are a winner! Buying is fun but selling is even more fun!! Heres how to get started: Read the full article »

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How to Translate Text or Web pages

>> Written on December 1st, 2007 by Leon

You may come across text in a foreign language when surfing or perhaps you just want to impress a new foreign ‘friend’ you met on the internet with your command of their native language, heres how: Read the full article »

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WEDDINGS IN IRELAND

>> Written on December 1st, 2007 by Leon

New directory based website for all things wedding related in the northwest of Ireland, featuring multiple blogs.

Live December 2007 – www.weddingsinireland.ie

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New Blog

>> Written on December 1st, 2007 by Leon

From this week on I will be blogging on a more frequent basis, whenever I get a chance.

I hope to maintain a technology blog written in layman’s terms and explaining complicated aspects of the Internet, Web Optimization, Computers and anything else relevant. Hopefully I can help those of you out there confused by the technology rush..stay tuned!

Leon.

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