There’s more to email than just sending and receiving emails. Aside from setting up clients (e.g. desktops, laptops, phones, and tablets), an increasing number of third-party apps are involved. I’ve written this article to help me remember how to set up exchange online servers to handle transactional emails. Typical scenarios may be forwarding contact forms … Read more
The first thing to say about WordPress spam is that you’re not going to beat it. You can only deal with it. I’m not going to dwell on why spam exists. When you see how rubbish the comment and from spam submissions are you can’t help wonder what possible benefits people get from it. But … Read more
Google announced some significant Adwords changes during the Google Performance Summit in May. While they have not given any specific dates for the updates to roll out it is well worth getting familiar with the new concepts. Some Adwords Stats and Why Mobile is Everything Most of the statistics that Google provide are specific to … Read more
Any time you set up a Google Adwords campaign you’ll naturally want to track how effectively you are spending your money. There are several ways to track conversion, using the variety of conversion tracking options within Adwords, or importing conversions from within Google Analytics. Each method has advantages, however here is one way to implement … Read more
You may have heard about the upcoming update that Google is about to roll out. The original notification about the mobile friendly update came back in February, and it is due to be unleashed on 21st April 2015. However you may not have noticed, but back in November 2014 Google started labelling websites as being “mobile friendly” … Read more
There are any number of SEO strategies and techniques that have been publicised over the years, some more successful than others. Some have actually worked for a while, only to be crushed when the Search Engines update their algorithms. For online marketers and people with technical skills this was not so much of a problem. … Read more
WordPress 3.9 is now at the Release Candidate (RC1) stage, with the full release scheduled for 16th April 2014. As usual Plugin and theme authors are being encouraged to carry out testing, and in particular to look out for issues around TinyMCE and MySQLi. The later is unlikely to trouble most end users, but the … Read more
The WordPress team have announced the availability of the first beta version of WordPress 3.8, with a projected release slated for 12the December. Aside from the usual bug squashing there is quite a lot of new stuff to enjoy: A new default theme (Twenty Fourteen) Refreshed Dashboard (DASH) New Theme Selection page (THX38) A new … Read more
By default WordPress enables excerpts on posts, but not pages. If you’re using The Genesis Framework and setting up content via Featured posts/pages it is very useful to be able to control how the excerpt is shown. As an example, the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified allows the placement of either the excerpt or a limited sample of … Read more
Ok, so you have installed WordPress and you’re ready to start customising your new website. Many people turn to WordPress plugins to add that extra bit of functionality, but as with all things, there is a word of caution. Although WordPress will work just fine without any additional plugins, there may be some specific function … Read more
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