http://www.thatwebman.com The Meanderings of a Web Designer Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:18:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, well. As I reported here, the Number 10 website is a Wordpress site. An almighty row has now broken out because their web designers apparently started with a theme written by someone else - as is common with Wordpress themes - and despite making the site look completely different ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/08/22/number-10-website-row/ Well, well, well. I've been developing some client sites using Wordpress for a CMS and its ability to be updated from wherever, whenever. It's a very mature product now and being so widely used there are a number of developers working on various plug-ins and widgets to extend its functionality. So yesterday ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/08/15/number-10-website/ Oh dearie, dearie me! The developers of Firefox decided to make a bit of a splash when they release Firefox version 3 by announcing they were going to try to make it into the record books for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. To this end, they set up a ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/06/17/public-relations-disaster-for-firefox/ Sorry, no I meant dictate2us: stuartfoster@dictate2us.com although the domain name is registered to a Solicitor gsl@glplaw.com and adminstered by mail@timmyleigh.com who also seems to work out of the same Solicitor's offices. You'd think they'd know the rules... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/06/02/spam2us/ And another regular spammer: Peyter [sic] Clayton, according to his utterly crap website. http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/05/30/peter-clayton/ Another spammer. info@databureau.co.uk main@databureau.co.uk and sbarbour@databureau.co.uk http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/05/21/business-lists-ltd/ ...is that they seem to live in some sort of Utopia where spam simply doesn't exist. Why do I suggest that? Take a look at their latest product: Google Friend Connect. It's an application/suite of apps. that can easily add social networking features to an otherwise static website and requires little programming ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/05/16/the-trouble-with-google/ jilly@mail.win4now.co.uk or help@win4now.co.uk or sales@win4now.co.uk who, along with owners info@dmri.co.uk sales@dmri.co.uk sales@carsource.co.uk sales@vansunited.co.uk, claim to be members of the Spammers Association, sorry the Direct Marketing Association. They used complaints@communicatorcorp.com or info@communicatorcorp.com to send the Spam out for them, probably because they too are members of the DMA. http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/05/14/direct-marketing-associations/ Well WordPress 2.5 has been released so I spent some time over the weekend updating 21 WordPress sites (and at the same time I updated another 6 Gallery installations). WordPress 2.5 is very nice with a much better interface. Its built-in gallery/multiple file uploader is great - providing you use the latest versions ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/04/01/wordpress-25-released/ I've mentioned before that I run a YouTube Channel to support my adult website. The stats. for the channel are impressive (to me anyway) with 1.4 million video views, but have you ever wondered where those viewers are coming from and how popular your videos are in relation to specific geographic ... http://www.thatwebman.com/2008/03/27/youtube-insight/