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Oct 12th 09
Visit to West Wales – Tenby, Saundersfoot, Marloes and Skomer
Tenby Harbour I went down to Pembrokeshire this weekend (Friday 9th October 2009 – Sunday 11th October 2009) staying in Tenby Friday and Saturday night. We were very lucky with the weather with unseasonally hot weather on Saturday which made quite hard work walking from Tenby to Saundersfoot on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path! I walked most of St Brides Bay earlier in the summer and I must say I found... read more
Oct 6th 09
England Vs Ukraine to be internet only
England’s World Cup qualifier in the Ukraine on Saturday 10th October 2009 will be shown on the internet with people paying at least £4.99 for the privilege. I personally think it is a shame if we end up going down this route especially with such a pitiful broadband service in many areas of the UK. When a game is shown on Satellite TV a large proportion of the population have no access to the match... read more
Aug 21st 09
Search Engine Optimisation – Link Building
Search Engine Optimisation is all about basics your website should be usable and easily navigable from the onset. However the usability of your website is for another day and another SEO tutorial. Lets talk link building something that will help your website gain more popularity amongst the search engines. You need to aquire good quality inbound links to your site such as: Links on a site directory but... read more
May 28th 09
The Trouble With Top, Right, Bottom and Left – Shorthand CSS
A few people ask me in what order do padding/margin values appear when using shorthand CSS. Many people use padding-right:10px; padding-left:10px; eg. #left { padding-top:20px; padding-left:30px; padding-right:40px; padding-bottom:50px; } Well the order for shorthand CSS is Top, Right, Bottom and Left and this can be easily remembered by using the word TRouBLe – Top-Right-ou-Bottom-Left so the... read more
Apr 30th 09
iPhone 3G Blank Screen Problem
I have been happily using my iPhone 3G for a number of months now quite happily, well despite its appalling SMS support but apart from that it has been great. My first real problem came the other day when for no apparent reason the phone appeared dead. The screen was blank and no button worked at all, no matter what I pressed nothing happened the phone appeared to be dead. Out of desperation I tried... read more
Mar 21st 09
Reseting DNS cache in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
It can be quite annoying if you have attempted to connect to a website and it is unreachable as windows remembers unresolved DNS requests. This can mean that the next time you attempt to connect to the site it fails even if the site is back up and running. This can also be a problem if you are trying to connect to other services such as FTP. Windows Users In Windows enter the command prompt – Start... read more
Mar 20th 09
Google Street View UK Goes Live
Google launched street view for the UK on Thursday March 19th showing detailed street level images from 25 of Britain’s cities. The following cities have been closely... read more
Feb 23rd 09
Deleting E-Mail Accounts Outside of Outlook
I made a vital error when running outlook 2007 for the first time the other day. I tried to connect to the exchange server in work using the first run wizard. Unfortunately for me the wizard did not ask for all the details needed to connect to the server and I got a warning saying that ‘Outlook could not connect to the exchange server’. When I next started outlook I got the same message so I... read more
Dec 3rd 08
Got a Mac? – Get Anti-Virus Software!
The Register reported yesterday on Apple’s advice that Mac users should use Anti-Virus software, well more than one peice of Anti-Virus software if Apples advice is to be followed. Well I agree, to a certain extent anyway, using two products may be a bit excessive especially as it will hit your system’s performance but I certainly think that using anti-virus software is a must. Now contuary to... read more
Nov 14th 08
Database Connections Outside of Webroot
For extra security many often store their database connection credentials outside of the web root. This is fairly easy to achieve without to much work. For those of you who are unsure how to store database connection credentials in a separate file please refer to my article on Connecting to MySQL with PHP Once you have your connections in a php file (this is also relevant to other languages such as asp... read more
This is always the worst bit isn't it? Well where can I start. My name is Robert Dicks, 33 (yes I will update my age every year!) from Cardiff.
I am also a freelance web developer (monicowebdesign.co.uk) working with html, CSS and php technologies and has gained considerable experience in SEO techniques including optimizing for local searches.
Away from work I am a Cardiff City Season ticket holder and a general sports fan! I also like to get away from the City and I especially like being by the coast especially if it means around the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path.
