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Are trade shows, expos and summits important to the success of an industry; a much needed reason to get together and let our hair down; or a distraction from the necessary functions of doing business?
I’m never quite sure what to make of all of the trade show, expo and summit invitations I receive in my [...]

Our free recipes website, Recipe85.com, has this week had a makeover providing a much needed new theme that is uncluttered, and supports the placement of recipes, and removes a lot of unneccessary bumf from the sidebars.
The really great thing about Recipe 85 now is that there is so much space devoted to the recipe, yet [...]

I thought long and hard before writing this post – not least because it does sometimes seem that the only time I ever write in this most personal of blogs is to either a) make a complaint, b) spout about some business thing or other we might be setting up or, c) something technical or [...]

It’s time for another one of those Case Studies into the world of online retail that we all know and love so much.
With the team at Deal85.com, we’re currently investigating the online glasses market – in particular, we are looking at who has the cheapest glasses available online, and how visible these online retailers are [...]

Wordpress 2.9 was released overnight!
Which means a day of upgrades for yours truly and the team, but the good news is that all of our sites, themes and plugins appear to be compatible from our rigorous testing.
Wordpress 2.9 is pushing wordpress further toward the complex multimedia CMS that we know it can be – for [...]

Those Wine Blokes have been hard at work again!
Over at the Wine Blokes website you will find the UK Wine Shop, where you can find, compare and buy fine wines online quickly and easily.
Today, the Wine Blokes website has been totally updated – and now includes Tesco.com wines too.
Full disclosure for those of you who [...]

Another month passed by since the public launch of another website we have made. This time it is running that we are looking to make a finer representation of on the internet, in the form of our glorious new running event listing website Race Calendar.
You can find Race Calendar at the rather sensible URL of [...]

Well, its been some time since I wrote anything with a webmaster hat on. That’s not because I haven’t been webmastering – far from it – it’s because I’ve been doing so much of it that the last thing I’ve wanted to do it write about it. However, something has cropped up time and again [...]

As sometimes happens when you work online, particularly when you start letting slip that you spend time optimizing and ranking sites well in organic search engine results, this week a friend of mine asked for my opinion on a website.
So here we have the opportunity to provide some good old free advice, promote a couple [...]

As you probably noticed, we’ve been having some problems this week, to say the least!
On Sunday night, we managed to have a massive hardware failure whereby one of our servers – the one which powers most of the WordPress driven websites – totally fell to pieces. We had to recompile everything from backup after rebuilding [...]