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No hidden charges

I've had a couple of situations recently where clients have suggesting "tricking" the user into either remaining subscribed to a service i.e. a mailing list or rammed some sales info down their throat whereas we advise to go the oposite direction -if someone doesn'

Recent comments macro for DasBlog

One of the issues I had with John Forsythe's Recent Comments macro for DasBlog was that the dasBlog recent comments weren't ordered by date (descending). I found that as people commented on older posts they were getting buried which irritated me as many were very still

Can Twitter be a bad thing for your business?

There's going to be a series of articles shortly that go into my attempts of using social networking to build your business but I thought I'd get this one out into the blogosphere first. What with the recent onslaught of "celebrities" onto Twitter such

Answer machine messages

Listening to Stacey update our answer machine messages today and Darren Ferguson posting on Twitter asking how to write project synopsis' got me thinking about KISS and that people knew what an answer machine was there for now and they didn't need a load of drivel about

New Years Resolutions and Getting rid of deadwood

Have you made any New Year's resolutions this year? -That's a question I'm sure you've been asked a dozen times already this year. New Year's resolutions have always amused me, the thought that people wait around for months to make

Umbraco tip of the day -sort your document types

I thought I'd share this as it's something I've been thinking about trying for a while. Umbraco is great but sometimes you want the default document selected when creating a page to be one that isn't the alphabetically first one. To work

Feedstats dropped by half overnight?

This was an interesting one, I've had about 42 subscribers for months (or there abouts) and then suddenly on Friday I lost nearly half. I know they're not big numbers but I wonder if Feedburner have noticed a glitch in their code.

Another Google feature

As I don't follow football I'm probably slow to pick this one up but thought I'd share it, when Googling "Newcastle" I got last/next fixture results so I thought I'd try it for West Brom: Pretty neat. I wonder

ASP.Net Profiles - Value cannot be null.Parameter name: type

This is the second time I've come across the error "Value cannot be null.Parameter name: type" when using ASP.Net Membership Profiles. Profiles are great, they allow you to store little pieces of information e.g. their user id (an integer reference to your database)

Friday Crazy Design

I was looking for an adjustable 4 hole punch today so I thought I'd quickly pop onto Staples' website thinking they might have one I can buy and then I was faced with this monstrosity: I know they've got a large product catalogue to share