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Embrace your inner stats whore and attract better quality traffic to your website

15th May, '09

I am a stats whore. I am increasingly addicted to checking the statistics of websites that I run. One of my regular habits is checking the top search queries. Much to my amusement this was in the top ten searches for yesterday

Implement rev="canonical" and become supercool

17th April, '09

Implementing rev="canonical" involves specifying a shorter url for each of your web pages so that people don't have to rely on 3rd party sites to shorten your urls

Proper Web Developers don't need a framework for CSS

4th February, '09

About a year ago I dismissed CSS Frameworks as a fad and and largely unnecessary. They just didn't feel right to me...

Personalising website commenting with Gravatars

18th November, '08

Gravatars have been on my list of things to look into for sometime and I have finally implemented it for this site. I must admit I am kicking myself for leaving it so long. Gravatars are easy to implement and are an easy way to personalise your blog...

HTML Purifier: an open source filter library

17th August, '08

Safely dealing with user input is a tricky business especially when you want to allow some HTML. This is not a new problem and there are many existing solutions out there, most notably, BB CODE & Markdown. HTML Purifier is a HTML filtering library...