Archive for the 'Web Dev' Category

Urgent WordPress Upgrade – 2.1.2

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

Wow, I got a scary message when I logged in to the dashboard of one of my blogs tonight to say that the upgrade to WordPress 2.1.1 that I downloaded a couple of days ago had been compromised – before it left the download site -  because the WordPress download server had been [tag]hacked[/tag] into!  Yikes! [...]

Tools for webmasters

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

I’ve just come across a fabulous array of online tools for webmasters over on iWEBTOOLS.  Here are some of the ones that look like they could be very useful: Backlink CheckerGet a list of backlinks linking to a site Google Banned CheckerHave you been banned from Google? Search Engine PositionFind your entry in Google and [...]

IE 7 get ready

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Just fixing a few things ready for IE7 which should start being automatically delivered to us all via Windows update any time now. Think about it, switch on your PC in the morning and it silently upgrades while you go make coffee (herbal tea in my case, but once IE7′s out I may be back [...]

The importance of local backups

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Well it happened. Demon, our webhosts for Kingsley-Hughes.com, lost all the files for our site. Not just the webpages and the images, but the backups too. (So much for the benefits of off-site backups. What’s the point if they keep it on the same server?) I know, I can hear you saying it and tut-tutting [...]