23 January 2011
By admin
We are experiencing signal problems, and bandwidth cappped at 4Mb because apparently that is how they solve intermittent connection problems. A small reduction I can understand, but since we're apparently on a 16Mb connection (according to support line), dropped to a quarter is not accpetable.
Looking around for some solutions there are the following coming up:
Improve your adsl broadband connection speed - http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php
and what figures are good or not:
03 January 2011
By admin
I've started the move away from Windows. There are obviously some apps I'll still need Windows for (Photoshop, GIMP is still too new to me at the moment), but as much as possible I'd like to get focussed on Linux. I'm still deciding between Fedora or Ubuntu but that can be sorted later.
27 December 2010
By admin
Following the advice on the PageSpeed plugin for Firebug, I am making the following changes.
Logged in as Administrator, go to
Admin > Site Configuration > Performance
Enable Page Cache, Block Cache, and Optimise CSS and JavaScript.
27 December 2010
By admin
The robots.txt file is supposed to stop spiders from crawling your site and access areas you don't want them to.
However while some (google, yahoo etc) may follow the rules, mainly because their reputation depends on it, there are some (spam harvesters etc) that will blatently ignore these.
I found a nice list of many bots that can be added to the .htaccess file. While this is not all of them it is a great starting point.
http://www.andrewkeir.com/stop-spam-harversters-malicious-crawlers-honey...
21 December 2010
By admin
I've recently developed a wordpress site that necessitated the development on a test platform. Moving it to the new, final destination proved tricky as it kept referring to the old, test, URL
To change this, I found this guide on Wordpress...
Edit Wordpress location
