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 are some solutions to fix the white text on white background problem in WordPress that could improve performance too
Martin Jarvis
A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
Is Google helping or hindering your business?
Bottin Cartographes have successfully brought a lawsuit 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 its own services. This is a very interesting case. Does your business benefit or is it hindered by Google? Here are my thoughts…
Creating Facebook Welcome and other pages
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 I get more people to read my blog? Step 4 – Getting strangers to spread the word
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.
How do I get more people to read my blog? Step 3 – Tell friends, fans, and followers about it
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.
How do I get more people to read my blog? Step 2 – Get found from links on other websites
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.
How do I get more people to read my blog? Step 1 – Get found by the search engines
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.
Forex Ninjas in your Analytics? – You have Referrer Spam!
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…
Know what people are saying about you on social media?
It’s important to know what people are saying about you, your company, and your products on Social Media platforms such as Twitter. I had a gripe on Twitter some time ago, and it looks like Brittany Ferries are on top of their Social Media tracking… A good approach to Social Media monitoring.
Spam – Whose problem is it really?
Spam is a problem for all website owners. Captcha works to some extent, but might also be preventing many real visitors from contacting you. Here’s a solution that might be better for your conversion rate whilst still cutting out most of your spam…













