10 Easy SEO Wins

Posted by on May 9, 2011 in SEO | No Comments

Optimising your  site for search engines is an important part of the development process and there are dozens of ways of making sure your content stands out in the rankings. Here are my top tips that take very little implementation and will imminently improve your visibility in search. If you’re interested in getting a more […]

YouTube Data Class

Posted by on Mar 15, 2011 in Code Chat, PHP | No Comments
YouTube Data Class

This is a class I’ve used several times and it demonstrates some of the useful data endpoints offered by YouTube. Often I will have to ask users or a web service for YouTube videos, and these may come in the form of share URLs, embed code or video URLs. This class allows you to extract […]

CSS Triangles

Posted by on Feb 20, 2011 in Code Chat | No Comments
CSS Triangles

Creating triangles using css alone

Are sitemaps still necessary?

Posted by on Jan 12, 2011 in Misc | No Comments

Back in the old days all sites would have a sitemap which would show a nice family tree pointing out all the pages included on the site. But is that still necessary in the current age of dynamic content? This is a discussion I have had with other developers and SEO consultants, and my opinion […]