Every year A List Apart Magazine hold their annual survey for people who make websites.
The questions you answer go a long way toward painting an accurate picture of the web industry today including the state of the current market and your hopes for the future.
Me? I told of how I still work a full time [...]

Joomla! 1.0.13 came out today. It’s a security release so it is highly recommended that all current versions of Joomla! are upgraded, though with extra caution!
The Joomla! 1.0.13 upgrade contains:

A number of low-risk security fixes
An improved password storage system
Simpler control over the “Register Globals” emulation
ItemID backwards compatibility setting – allowing you [...]

The Angels are after the Phone Box. Quote from Doctor Who tonight

According to news on the official WordPress site, do not use WordPress 2.1.1! WordPress 2.1.1 was a version that became compromised, so make sure you bin your old version of WordPress 2.1.1 and install WordPress 2.1.2 immediately.

It’s always nice to know your website is ticking over, doing its job, serving the community 24/7… but what if it does go down?
Occasionally that has happened in the past, and moreso with cheap hosting deals. Even some of the best hosts have been subject to the occasional gremlin and sometimes even forces beyond their [...]

Whilst we’re on the topic of sitemaps, after having generated XML sitemaps for the Google sitemaps option in Google webmaster tools, how do you create sitemaps for WordPress without all the manual labour?
Well, we did a little search on the web and found the excellent Dagon Design Sitemap Generator plugin for WordPress.
The instructions are pretty [...]

Need a Google Sitemap generated? Don’t know how to generate your Google Sitemap in XML?
Don’t worry, because I just found this awesome little site that does your Google Sitemap XML for you… www.sitemapspal.com
I just entered the URL of my sitemap (http://www.22i.co.uk/sitemap.php), hit submit and the online sitemap generator spewed out a load of xml for [...]

OK, sacrilege… I’m designing & developing websites on an XP Pro laptop, with Dreamweaver 8 and not a Mac *shock horror*
But I’ve got my Windows Task Manager running and the bar is ALL GREEN meaning something’s maxing out my processor. You’d think with a 1.73MHz Intel and 2GHz of RAM that Dreamweaver would play nicely? [...]

Well, let me just breathe a huge sigh of relief…
*huge sigh of relief*
We’ve just launched phase I of the revamped is4profit UK small business website. Visually it’s virtually the same as the previous website, but technically there’s a shiny new custom Content Mangement System under there, all-singing, all-dancing, powerful and quick too.
The main advantages to [...]

Remember we spoke about optimising CSS the other day? Well, after reading a Joomla forum post entitled Speed up Joomla, there was a link in there to a neat little tool over at Flumpcakes.co.uk, their CSS Optimiser.
I just banged a 15k stylesheet and it saved 3k for me. Thanks