It’s been almost two years since I did any design work on my blog. In that time the design has moved quite a long way away from the original look and feel, thanks to the addition of various new widgets and Wordpress plug-ins. I think it’s time to spruce things up a bit.

Tags: blog+design, web+design, wordpres+templates, Wordpress
Categories: Blogging, Branding, Web development, Wordpress

Comparing Google Analytics, Statcounter and Feedburner Site Stats

Sunday, January 28th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

I have three different website statistics packages running on my blog - Google Analytics, Statcounter and Feedburner. Here’s what I think of each and why.

Tags: blog, blog+stats, Blogging, blogs, feedburner, feedburner+site+stats, google, google+analytics, statcounter, statistics, vodafone-second+life-social+media, Web development, Wordpress, wordpress+2.1
Categories: Blogging, Web development

Somewhere to play

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

Running a website means everything that happens on the site takes place in full public view. Any design tweak, software upgrade or testing you do can be seen by anyone who visits your website which can make you look unprofessional if things don’t go according to plan.

Tags: blog, blog+design, Blogging, personal+branding, Software, Web development, web+development, websites, Wordpress, wordpress+2.1
Categories: Blogging, Software, Web development, Wordpress

New email and website rules for UK companies

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am

UK marketers and businesses may not be aware of some new rules for UK companies using websites and email that were introduced on 1 January 2007.

Tags: companies+act, email+marketing, emails, uk, websites
Categories: Email marketing, Regulations and laws, Web development

Bells and whistles

Sunday, December 17th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Over the weekend I’ve added a couple of extra features to my blog - a new Grazr and a site preview for external links.

Tags: Blogroll, feeddemon, grazr, newsgator, opml, RSS, snap
Categories: Blogging, Web development, Wordpress

Online collaboration with Thinkature

Saturday, November 11th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Found a great new online collaboration service today called Thinkature.

Tags: conference+calls, online+collaboration, thinkature
Categories: Software, Web development

A different web consultancy project

Saturday, October 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am

The new Medway Primary Care Trust (PCT) website has just launched. The site was designed and build by the team at Netsite, and I acted as website consultant for the folks at the PCT.

Tags: Customer experience, Marketing, medway+council, medway+pct, netsite, Podcasting, Public relations, public+relations, public+sector, Social media, social+media, Web development, web+consultancy
Categories: Customer experience, Marketing, Public relations, Social media, Web development

Writely is no more

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

The Writely service has now been merged with Google’s spreadsheet system to become the imaginatively named “Google Docs & Spreadsheet”.

Tags: Software, web+development
Categories: Software, Web development

Increasing RSS feed subscriptions

Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

Inspired by a post by Rohit Bhargava I thought I’d try to make it easier for readers of my blog to add the RSS feed to their favourite feedreader and to their preferred social bookmarking site.

Tags: Blogging, Marketing, social+media, web+development, Wordpress
Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Social media, Web development, Wordpress

Tracking traffic on your blog

Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 9:31 pm

I’ve always tried to keep an eye on my blog traffic statistics, but a deeper look into the three tools I’ve been using threw up a bit of a surprise.

Tags: Marketing, social+media, web+development, Wordpress
Categories: Marketing, Social media, Web development, Wordpress

Today is OneWebDay

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 pm

Today is OneWebDay - “a global day to celebrate online life”. When I heard I did take a few minutes to reflect how the internet has changed the life I lead.

Tags: web+development, web+strategy
Categories: Web development, Web strategy

How to give customers bad news

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 at 6:03 am

Regular readers will know that this site is now hosted by Dreamhost. They’ll also know that since I switched over the availability of the site hasn’t been great, with a number of short and long outages.

Tags:
Categories: Customer experience, Public relations, Web development

Making the move to Wordpress

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 at 6:33 am

I have been running this website for around five years now. Over that time it’s evolved from a few simple pages about marketing consultancy services into a much larger beast.

Tags: Software, Textpattern, web+development, Wordpress
Categories: Software, Textpattern, Web development, Wordpress

New ChangeThis manifesto

Sunday, July 9th, 2006 at 10:00 pm

Meryl K Evans has a new ChangeThis manifesto published called Five Quick Tips to Building a Better Blog.

Tags: public+relations, social+media, web+development
Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development

New hosting

Monday, July 3rd, 2006 at 1:33 pm

If you’re reading this it means my transfer over to new hosting at Dreamhost is complete.

Tags: web+development
Categories: Web development

Guy Kawasaki’s feed - lapsing

Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am

Among the feeds I read regularly is Signum sine tinnitu by Guy Kawasaki. It looks this morning like something has gone a bit wrong with Guy’s Feedburner feed.

Tags: public+relations, social+media, web+development
Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development

Keeping pace with Web 2.0

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

Over in Australia Lee Hopkins is feeling the frustration of leading adoption of Web 2.0 tools amongst his clients.

Tags: public+relations, social+media, web+development, web+strategy
Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development, Web strategy

Keeping it short and simple

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 at 9:19 pm

Inspired by 37signals and Matt Weston I’ve been thinking again about my site - how it’s structured, what it looks like and what it actually says.

Tags: Marketing, web+development, web+strategy
Categories: Marketing, Web development, Web strategy

Introducing Technorati tags to Textpattern

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 8:40 pm

Figured it was about time I got with the tempo and started using Technorati tags on my posts.

Tags: social+media, Textpattern, web+development
Categories: Social media, Textpattern, Web development

Why is Flash so bad?

Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 8:44 pm

Building your site mostly or all in Flash is a bad idea. Yet still mistakes are made by big businesses that should know better, most recently River Island.

Tags: web+development
Categories: Web development

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