Free Marketing Advice
MARKETING: – Take every opportunity to tell people what you sell.
I have some free marketing advice for you I was recently on holiday and needed some beach shoes, you know those rubber soled scuba jobs that you can walk into the sea with – I was in half a mind to get a wet suit too – well it was a holiday in the UK and the kids wanted to be in the sea.… Continue reading
Don’t get fooled by Phishing attemps
I just had an email which was supposedly from HSBC bank, it had the usual blurb about ‘security’ and ‘an attempt has been made to access your account’ etc.
I know this isn’t true as I don’t have a HSBC account, but a lot of folks do so a good percent of this phishing attempt will hit the inbox of someone who will be genuinely worried by it.
My advice to anyone who may be… Continue reading
Redirecting out of an iFrame
Want a neat little trick to redirect a page out of an iFrame when your session in the frame has finished?
Drop this into the header of your final page:
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
if (top.frames.length>0)
setTimeout(“top.location = window.location;”,100);
</script>
I’m unsure how this works when the person browsing has JavaScript turned off, I will still have to test that. If you have any ideas how to over come that please comment below.
WordPress 3 Upgrade
It seems that the upgrade to WordPress 3 is causing many people headaches. I’ve not noticed too much so far, however I did swap the theme over to see what the new Twenty Ten theme looked like and when I changed back all my widgets in the side bar had gone. So beware of that one.
If you spot any other oddities please post a comment below and help make this post a reference document
Cable Broadband
I really don’t understand the UK. BT have announced that they are preparing to roll out a multi million pound scheme for installing more cable broadband in the UK. This will see a good proportion of us move from copper wires to fiber optic for our broadband, telephone and media content. This is great news and I applaud it, I’d snap their hand, no arm off if I could get it at home. And this… Continue reading
