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Comment on Mobile web design- How will it develop in 2009? by Colin Hall

Colin Hall — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:24:59 +0000

2010 now and I’m seeing a big increase in mobile based traffic, up maybe 35% on last year. The only problem I’m facing as a service operator is the interconnectivity of email contact with mobile users. They seem to be able to contact me, but more and more I’m getting problems replying. However, I certainly feel that this media will become more important as developments continue.

All the Best

Colin

Comment on Working for free by NSDesign Blog » Blog Archive » Working for free – another success!

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:59:01 +0000

[...] Following on from last year, the NSDesign team enjoyed a great day helping just over 20 small businesses, with free consultancy on the likes of SEO, Social Media, and web design. Like last year, we weren’t without our detractors for the initiative, with the DBA again giving us a little “dig” on twitter… (although thankfully, nothing on the scale of last year!)… and a few industry players that like to moan about “de-valuing” design, without truly understanding what the day is actually about. [...]

Comment on The Value of your own Name – Susan Boyle and cybersquatting! by admin

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:47:02 +0000

Yet again, looks like Talkback Thames have learned nothing from Susan Boyle.. Poor Joe McElderry (winner of the 2009 X-Factor) has had his name snaffled by the cybersquatters… Now up for sale by a 3rd party who registered it back in August. When will they protect their acts??!!

Comment on Resources to make Font Embedding Easy! by Martin Saulis

Martin Saulis — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:54:02 +0000

Hi there,

I’d say the hkern is rather important to the rendering of the text and making it look the way the typographer planned, so I personally wouldn’t remove that.

As for glyph-name=”null” — just did a test on 10 random fonts. Half of them didn’t have any null glyphs at all, the others had one or two such glyphs, so it doesn’t look like a lot of space saving to me — the amoung of these glyphs probably depends on the particular font.

But hey, nice article.

P.S. Would be nice if you fixed my surname in your text, which is Saulis, not SaulUs

Comment on Server Speed and Google – worth the higher price? by Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:43:37 +0000

I agree with your comments. I searched on Google to find other opinions on this exact issue and yours was the first. More of the larger UK hosts seem to be pushing this ‘Google Love’ idea. I think these hosts have just latched onto comments by Google and then just marketed this as THE SEO answer for many websites. The trouble is that ‘Google Love’ is a very convincing reason for many website owners to change hosts, even if it probably won’t make much difference to many websites, many of which are already on reasonable servers.

Comment on Google Wave and other Killer Apps making a splash! by Fraser

Fraser — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:12:41 +0000

I think google already has a lot of features that people aren’t aware of, which already has it on par with bing. For instance, just enter “55 degrees fahrenheit in celsius” and google will give you the answer. Type “weather glasgow” and you’ll get the current conditions and 5 day forecast.

More google secrets here…
http://www.google.ch/intl/en/help/features.html#calculator

Comment on Email Forwarding and why it’s a bad idea by admin

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:49:53 +0000

Paul,

I understand your situation of course – it’s not an uncommon one, and in no way am I suggesting that you use an email that doesn’t match up with your domain – you’re right – it wouldn’t look professional. The issue here is that many of these 3rd party mail providers (like hotmail or aol) that people forward to, use some of the most aggressive (and very automatic) anti-spam filters and rules etc… so a LOT of what gets sent to them gets marked as spam (much of which is not spam).

To answer your 2 questions – Yes – using IMAP will likely help your scenario of working on multiple computers (it’s how we allow multiple staff to access our info@ account etc).

No – It’s a well know Cpanel “issue” (that all cpanel hosts would love resolved) that forwarded emails do NOT get parsed by Spam Assassin. Makes no sense I know, but there are some technical reasons why Cpanel haven’t implemented a solution to this yet. Short term solution is as follows:

1. Add a POP3 account for each forwarder
2. Set up a filter on that POP3 account to discard any mail with a spam score greater than xx
3. Set up the forwarder

Then and only then will spamassassin filter the incoming mail before forwarding it on. You will of course have to then consider how to “empty” the mailbox every so often to prevent it going over-quota after time. Hope this all helps

Comment on Email Forwarding and why it’s a bad idea by Paul Frost

Paul Frost — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:08:42 +0000

I manage 12 domains/websites and have email addresses connected to each one and have them forward to my Gmail account.
I use several computers (mac & PC) so having my mail “in the cloud” is the only way to keep it all together and updated.
It would not look very professional to have an email address that didn’t match the domain.

Am I right in thinking that IMAP would help my situation in managing mail from several computers?
If so is IMAP available from you?

Does forwarded mail go through the SpamAssasin filters before it gets forwarded?

Comment on Did I invent Google Maps and Street View? by marcin gluszek

marcin gluszek — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:08:29 +0000

Yes you have invented it,I do agree and wish you best of luck.

Comment on The Value of your own Name – Susan Boyle and cybersquatting! by admin

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:58:57 +0000

I agree – nothing wrong with fan sites at all… and you’re right – they can help make or break a celebrity…. But would you happily hand over the domain name to Susan Boyle’s management company if they came asking you? If yes – then I admire you, but think you’re in the minority compared to the other owners of all the susanboyle domains.. In actual fact, it’s highly likely that even if you said no, and did not hand it over, they’d take it from you easily via Nominet’s Dispute Resolution Service. Anyway, my issue is not actually with you… it’s with the production companys that for the sake of a few pounds, could easily register the domain names of their clients in advance of introducing these “stars” to the public. By not doing so, they are simply not acting in their act’s best interests.