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2 Best WordPress Security Plugins

‘WordPress’ and ‘security’ – 2 words that together give me the shivers – there’s nothing worse than opening a site to find it replaced with a the page of some ‘hacking group’, Arabic writing, creepy music and pictures of camels – trust me, I would know. It’s no secret WordPress as a core can have its security ups and downs, but usually the WordPress development team are fast to fix these problems. The more important problems often lie with third party plugins that we all love to install on our WordPress sites –... Read The Rest →

Back from my travels

As some of you may know I’ve spent the last 2 months or so travelling around South America – I had an amazing time and am shocked at the weather home in London. In 2 months I travelled over 9000km through Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, taking in some of the wonders of the world whilst relaxing and taking a welcome break from the British winter and the computer. It’s back to reality now though – I want to say thanks to the many loyal clients who were... Read The Rest →

How to get around the Wikipedia blackout – 2 methods!

Don’t get me wrong – I support Wikipedia’s cause and am completely against SOPA/PIPA. However, I also know how much grief not having Wikipedia is causing people! Here’s two little tricks to get around the blackout page for those of you who really need to! 1) As a Wikipedia page is loading, simply hit your ‘Escape’ key (‘esc’), and the page you are trying to view will load instead of the blackout page. The reason this works is because the Escape key effectively disconnects your browser from the Wikipedia server... Read The Rest →

The SSD Bug

I’ve been the proud owner of the latest Apple Macbook Air for about 6 weeks now and I couldn’t be happier – it may be beginning to sound like I work for Apple with the amount of plugs I’ve been giving – I don’t, I promise! The most amazing bit for me is how it leaves my 27 inch iMac behind. Even this is only 4 months old, yet my Macbook Air beats it in terms of speed at nearly all the tasks I use it for. Why? The SSD.... Read The Rest →

Working Freelance – Part 1

As I said last week, I’m asked every now and again what I do to try and make working as a freelancer as straightforward as possible. Here are a few insights. 1) I’m all Mac based now. Not a practical solution for everyone I know, but this definitely tops my list for streamlining workflow and making life much easier! I’ve built my own Windows PC’s since I was 13 years old, yet I still couldn’t find a setup that was cost effective and most importantly stress free. Sure, Mac’s aren’t... Read The Rest →

Working Freelance

I’ve been asked a few times about some of the things I do or use to make life easier working as a freelancer. Working freelance usually means you carry out all aspects of managing yourself… yourself! This can often be time consuming and a bit of a chore! Sometimes it feels like I spend most of my day just responding to emails, backing up files and managing my accounts and never get a chance to do any designing or building. I use a few great software tools to help me... Read The Rest →

A new website!

Those of you who are regular visitors might have realised I’ve moved to this new website! Hopefully it will be clearer and more informative than before with a bit more emphasis on my portfolio. I’m going to try and keep this new blog up to date too, not only about my work but also anything to do with the internet, web design and SEO that’s interesting (at least to me anyway). I’ve had a lot of lessons taught to me the hard way in the few years I’ve been doing... Read The Rest →