10 Must Have Firefox Plugins for Web Developers
Mon, 31/05/10 – 11:15 | No Comment

1. Flash Switcher
It is a must have for Flash Developers, it lets you choose between different versions of flash so you can be sure your code is compatible with all existing versions of Flash.

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So How Exactly Does SEO Work?
Tue, 1/06/10 – 10:10 | No Comment

So How Exactly Does SEO Work?

This is the million dollar question. And we can almost guarantee you that for every person you ask, you’ll get a different answer. That’s because marketing to the search engines is like any creative endeavor: cooking, painting, carpentry, etc.

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5 Steps to Improve Your Email Subject Lines
Wed, 5/05/10 – 18:02 | No Comment

5 Steps to Improve Your Email Subject Lines

What’s it take to create the perfect subject line? My first response is usually a copywriter. Not just for the single line of poetry that is the subject line—but how it connects to your campaign and reveals the content. If writing your subject line is the last step you undertake before sending your email, that’s fine and not unlike magazine covers. But too often I think “last step” is metaphoric for harried, slapdash work. Read the whole story »

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Web Design Tutorials
Sat, 27/03/10 – 16:37 | No Comment

Web Design Tutorials

You need to know some of the basic things about web design no matter you are making HTML, CSS or Flash websites for personal or commercial purpose. You need to focus on basic HTML first before you step into JavaScript or CSS or whatever. If you wish to make your website to be very successful, you will also need to learn more topics regarding usability, compatibility with major web browsers, SEOs or Search Engine Optimization Techniques, etc. Read the whole story »

5 Steps to Improve Your Email Subject Lines
Wed, 5/05/10 – 18:02 | No Comment
5 Steps to Improve Your Email Subject Lines

What’s it take to create the perfect subject line? My first response is usually a copywriter. Not just for the single line of poetry that is the subject line—but how it connects to …

Web Design Tutorials
Sat, 27/03/10 – 16:37 | No Comment
Web Design Tutorials

You need to know some of the basic things about web design no matter you are making HTML, CSS or Flash websites for personal or commercial purpose. You need to focus on basic HTML first …

65% of UK households had access to the Internet in 2009
Tue, 16/03/10 – 22:15 | No Comment
65% of UK households had access to the Internet in 2009

According to UK government statistics, 16 million UK households (about 65%) had Internet access in 2008 which is an increase of 7 per cent since 2007.

As for the broadband, only 56% of …

Social Networking
Wed, 3/03/10 – 18:45 | No Comment
Social Networking

The most popular social network is of course MySpace. Though the social giant enjoys over 20 million unique visitors every month, few businesses or website owners have thought to penetrate this incredible resource.

Opera Browser 9.6 is Out!
Wed, 17/02/10 – 12:34 | No Comment
Opera Browser 9.6 is Out!

Here is definitely a battle taking place online, the “browser wars” have recently seen the entry of Google’s Chrome browser, which has had mixed reviews so far, and now Opera have piped up with their …

Is Google Reader Any Good?
Tue, 16/02/10 – 10:04 | No Comment
Is Google Reader Any Good?

Web feeds can save you so much time and energy. With web feeds the latest news, stories and updates from your favourite sites come to you instead of you going to them, it …

NEW Web Hosting Features
Thu, 28/01/10 – 18:56 | No Comment
NEW Web Hosting Features

We take your feedback very seriously at Umbrella Host and we are pleased to announce a range of added features and upgrades as a result of that feedback.
If you are a Umbrella Host customer you …

Why Firefox 3 is the Best
Thu, 28/01/10 – 18:45 | One Comment
Why Firefox 3 is the Best

I came accross this video on YouTube and decided to share. I completely stopped using the Internet Explorer ages ago, only using it for browser compatibility checks for our projects.
Personally, I love the Tab Mix …

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Fri, 22/01/10 – 4:27 | No Comment
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate the stylistic elements of a page such as layout, colour and fonts from the content of the page such as paragraphs and images. We call this Separation …

SearchEngineOptimising.com on Google?
Thu, 21/01/10 – 4:55 | One Comment
SearchEngineOptimising.com on Google?

Where is SearchEngineOptimising.com on Google? It’s common to be sceptical about trusting an SEO company. Google’s advice is to be cautious. What sets us aside from other companies you may speak to regarding SEO is …