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Why I moved from Firefox

This Post could also be titled “Why I now use Google Chrome” as I’ve recently done something a few weeks back I would have thought extremely unlikely. I used and loved Mozilla Firefox for many years and then I was forced to reinstall the OS and software onto my laptop due to a trojan. The [...]

WordPress Theme Design and CSS Basics

WordPress Theme Design and CSS Basics

Tomorrow I’ll be tutoring at Metro Screen for the students enrolled in the Advanced Diploma in Screen and Media (CUF60107). I’ll be focusing on the design section of the assessment brief for the Media Rich Blog assessment: Strong, eye-catching and appropriate post and page titles. Self branding, such as a header image created using image [...]

Page Load Speed as SEO

Google has named Webpage load speed as a ranking factor. This means that when Google calculates in which position to display results in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), faster loading Webpages may be positioned more prominently. There are several hundred factors that Google uses when considering where to place a Webpage in the SERPs [...]

10 Steps – SPEED up your WebSite

Load speed of WebPages is increasingly becoming important, not only for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but also because people are becoming ever more intolerant of slow Websites. As Internet network speeds have increased (ADSL, 3G, WiMax etc.) so content of Websites has increased therefore negating some of the benefits of faster networking. The obvious question [...]