Have you ever wanted to align the text on your web pages so that it spreads across each line, just like in newspaper columns? You might think this looks good, but here are a few reasons you might want to reconsider

Why you shouldn’t specify align=justify for your website text

The EU Cookie directive comes into force for UK-based websites on 25th May 2012. This directive came into force for some other countries in the EU a year ago, but the UK government gave website owners here an additional year to make their sites compliant, whilst at the same time hoping that the directive itself was clarified. Everyone seems to be waiting to see what everyone else will do, but just in case you want to be one of the first, here’s a solution for your website

More about the EU Cookie Directive

Have you recently updated WordPress and noticed your post area looks blank and the icons don’t display when you edit existing posts or pages?

Here is a solution to fix the white text on white background problem in WordPress that could improve performance too

Bottin Cartographes have successfully brought a law suit against Google in France, claiming that Google has been anti-competitive when offering their free Google Maps API service to businesses, and that this is not competitive with it’s own services. This is a very interesting case.

Does your business benefit or is it hindered by Google? Here are my thoughts…

Do you want to add a welcome page to Facebook, and perhaps one that displays in two different ways depending whether the visitor has already ‘liked’ you or not? You can even go one step further and add other tabs (Facebook terminology for navigational links in your Facebook sidebar).

Add a great looking Welcome page to your Facebook page

How do you get complete strangers to share your blog content? Want a few hints and tips?

The 4th in a series about getting more visitors to read your blog

You’ve got some search engine traffic and links from other websites. How do you go about letting your own network know about your content?

Find out how to tell your friends, fans and followers about your site

As part of your overall website or blog traffic strategy you should be getting links from other websites. There are effective and ineffective ways to do this.

Here are some guidelines for getting links from other websites

First of a series of articles answering the question… “How do I get more people to read my blog?”. This article explains how to get more search engine traffic.

Start boosting your blog visitors by getting more search traffic

Have you checked your Google Analytics traffic stats recently and noticed a bit of traffic from some unlikely sources? When checking your referrers (which sites have sent you traffic) have you spotted sites such as www.forex-ninjas.com and www.rock.to? If so, then you have had some referrer spam.

This traffic is no good at all to you, and isn’t actually the result of them visiting your site at all. Confused? Read on…