Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

So what is a WordPress “Theme”?

Posted on July 19, 2010

You’ve probably heard of CMSes and Blogging software and you’ve probably heard that it’s free to download and use on your website. So why does your designer of developer want to charge you for creating a website using Wordpress? Continue reading →

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Avoiding comment spam in WordPress

Posted on July 16, 2010

By default, WordPress is set to approve comments automatically from people who have previously had a comment approved. Ever wondered why seemingly random people leave comments on your blog saying things like “Hi, I found your blog really interesting”? There … Continue reading →

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Gotta a Mac? Like games? Get Steam

Posted on July 13, 2010

Back in the day the only way to get games for the Mac was to phone up MacGold. Then came the internet. And eventually Steam came to the Mac. So if you’ve got kids, a husband or boyfriend moaning about … Continue reading →

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Cheap refurb iPod Touch, MacBook Pro 13″ and 21.5″ iMac

Posted on July 11, 2010

Apple have some rather nice deals available at the moment for refurbished kit.  You can find out more about what a refurbished mac is and what warranty it has here. iPod Touch 8GB 2nd generation – £109 inc VAT and … Continue reading →

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How long before Google will see changes to my site?

Posted on July 9, 2010

People often assume that changes they make to their website will instantly be picked up by Google. This isn’t the case. It can take anything up to a few months before Google indexes new content on your site, although this … Continue reading →

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Don’t trust your hard drive – it will fail

Posted on July 9, 2010

If there’s one constant in life, it’s that shit happens – usually at the most in inopportune moment possible. And the greatest disaster that can happen to a computer user is a complete hard drive failure. I spent a couple … Continue reading →

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Troubleshoot OS X like it’s OS 9…

Posted on July 7, 2010

Yesterday a client in Bradford on Avon had an emergency, a deadline and no replacement install disks for raft of applications that suddenly failed to open. A bit of detective work later I realised that the affected applications were all … Continue reading →

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Maintaining search engine position after a web site redesign

Posted on July 7, 2010

You’ve worked hard to get high up in the search engine results for your targeted keywords, you’ve got inbound links to your website coming out of your ears and your customers have bookmarked pages on your site. And now you … Continue reading →

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Professional photography? It’s not about the camera…

Posted on July 6, 2010

A number of  my Mac support customers in and around Bath are professional photographers – and boy have pro photographers been having a hard time recently! The advent of cheap Digital SLRs has lead to an explosion in the number … Continue reading →

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Modernizr – get fine grained control over your CSS

Posted on July 3, 2010

Modern web browsers like Safari, Chrome and Firefox support some extremely useful parts of the CSS3 specification, that can remove a great deal of the pain of creating simple things like rounded corners, drop shadows, and gradients. However, the elephant … Continue reading →

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