“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”
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Email Marketing – Open Rates: subject line rules and content is key
I’ve been a/b testing a lot lately – I usually do this with most of my campaigns, using a sample group to test and then sending the best subject line to the rest of the…
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Alphabetical ordering of wordpress post
I found this post (http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/22/6-ways-to-customize-wordpress-post-order/) about how to get your wordpress posts sorted alphabetically and thought I would drop it here until I have time to get a fix on my recipe’s website [Edit: now…
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CSS Z-Index – Creating an adjustable background image for a page
I have been messing around with z-index recently for styling documents. I have been meaning to use it as a much more efficient way of creating cool backgrounds but it’s always been a bit of…
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WordPress code for highlighted category links
If you want to display a higlighted category to your visitors so that they know where they are in the site, use the following code, which checks to see if the page is of a…
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Round the Island ’09
Well it was another good race round the island this year – we didn’t do quite as well, but it was just as eventful! We started at 0750 on Saturday morning heading west from Cowes…
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WordPress
As part of learning how to use wordpress for work (we are switching all our sites to it) I have decided to port all my websites to the wordpress CMS in order to learn a…
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Round The Island 2009
I am more than a little bit excited about this weekend – there are nearly 1800 boats signed up to take part and the weather isn’t looking too shabby either! Last year we came 5th…
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Track adwords PPC ROI from a contact form using Google Analytics
Following on from my last post, here is the analytics tracking code in the onclick handler that will pull the text entered into the contact form and submit it to google analytics event tracking. This…
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Technical & Service Information for Ford Cars
Online service and technical reference (Sorry – bit of a personal book mark this one!)
Any good recommendations for books, podcasts or blogs?