Some time ago (I don't actually know when) I ceased to be the admin of this website. In fact for the longest while the site has had no proper admin at all. Even though I have admin status I lost all ability to carry out certain admin functions (such as viewing, adding or deleting users, […]

I get asked very often how to set up a blog, what to talk about, and inevitably how to get to the top of Google. As I said in my previous post How do I make my blog work for me? you need to think carefully about what you mean by getting to the top of […]

Very often I get asked how to set up a blog, what to talk about, and inevitably how to get to the top of Google. This is a subject that I've been writing and teaching about for years. These days however I'm getting asked this by a whole new set of people. These are often […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Joomla installation is very easy.  The snazzy installer takes you through the steps of filling in the database details, site names etc and will create a configuration if the folder is writable.  If your configuration file isn’t writable Step 4 of the Joomla installation gives you the completed configuration details to copy and paste into notepad, which […]

"My Drupal password emails are considered spam by my spamfilter so I found them in the spam folder. Why is this?" Your Drupal installation isn't set up correctly to send email, so, because important information is missing from the header of the email, your filter is regarding them as spam. In Drupal go to administration, […]

I noticed today that the ‘View Style Info’ from the Web Developer Extension in Firefox had stopped working. I could hover over an element within a web page and it would reveal the markup in the status bar as usual but when I clicked it didn't deliver the style info about that element. I think this […]