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NextGEN Gallery Thumbnail Generation Error

Thumbnail Generation PHP Memory Limit NextGEN Gallery If you are having trouble generating thumbnails with NextGEN Gallery this could be down to your web hosts default memory usage allocation for PHP applications. Increasing the memory usage for PHP Applications You can increase the memory usage allocation for an individual PHP applications, such as NextGEN gallery …

Apple Tribute to Steve Jobs

Apples homepage today (Thursday 6th October 2011) simply had an image of Steve Jobs with a link through to clean uncluttered page – the way he seemed to like the apple website with a tribute to Steve Jobs himself – www.apple.com/stevejobs

Bounce Rate and how to improve it

The Bounce Rate has always concerned webmasters but what exactly is the Bounce Rate? According to Google the Bounce Rate is:

Douglas Adams and how we think about technology

My good friend @RhianHowells sent me this excellent piece written by Douglas Adams back in 1999 – How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet what really caught my attention is his own views on how we all think about technology. I have always said that a TV is a technology to our …

Difference between bounce rate & exit rate

I have been asked on a number of occasions what the difference is between bounce rate & exit rate, especially now that Google Analytics is so widespread. Indeed many people I have spoken to believe both exit rate and Bounce Rate mean exits from your page / site. Well that is true to a certain …

How to completely remove Firefox on mac OSx

Uninstalling FireFox on the Mac is not as easy as it is on Windows. As well as removing the Firefox.app file from applications you need to remove files located in your Users directory as well.Once you have done this then all settings will be removed inducing bookmarks, history and plugins. Guide to completely removing Firefox …

Post of the week – Local search | Company Blogging | WordPress Admin

We have some great sites this week from plugins that improve the WordPress admin area to a nostalgic look at very early versions of Internet Explorer, well I say nostalgic I can remember being very frustrated during most of the late 90′s and early Norties with IE!

Simple Techniques for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

There are many simple techniques you can deploy when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but all SEO techniques have the same end product that is making your website more visible to people who are carrying out organic searches on search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask Jeaves to name but a …

The Trouble With Top, Right, Bottom and Left – Shorthand CSS

We have updated this post thanks to the comment made by Paul. A few people ask me in what order do padding/margin values appear when using shorthand CSS. Many people use padding-right:10px;  padding-left:10px; eg. #left { padding-top:20px; padding-left:30px; padding-right:40px; padding-bottom:50px; } Well the order for shorthand CSS is Top, Right, Bottom and Left and this …

Redirecting a sub domain with htaccess

I have not needed to redirect sub domains before but after installing wordpress 3 for a client (and activating the multiple blogs option) the client wanted one of their sub domains to always point to their home page instead of the standard Registration has been disabled text. To do this all you need to do …