Many people find themselves in an unfortunately position of being on a lesser blogging platform. I remember switching to blogger with the dreams of utilizing the free adsense spots, being able to completely customise the design and having my own domain for a mere £7 a year. What a bargain. Then a year or so in I realised I had made a mistake. Although blogger was a great platform it was just a blog, I couldn’t do some of the amazing things I saw happening on WordPress blogs and envy grew in my heart. Eventually, I made the jump to a self-hosted […]

In my recent post I suggested that perhaps checking your stats every ten seconds wasn’t a good thing. Okay I actually told you lot to get back to work but it’s a small difference, right? After I shared the post across various social networks I had some comments from people about some of the tips I suggested to get the most from your stats. Although everyone and their lolcat knows how to see total page views not everyone knows how to get down into the real nitty gritty of stats and the really useful information that they contain. I want to […]

Just before Christmas my blog was hacked. If you’ve never been hacked then your lucky, there is nothing worse than arriving at your website, not being able to log in and then seeing a message You got Pwn3d by [insert hacker group] because you disrespected Islam with the film “the innocence of Muhammed” Yes those were the actual words that appeared on my blog and for the record I have never, don’t ever want to watch the innocence of Muhammed, from all reports it is the worse film ever made and was just a troll on Islam but back to my blog. As this […]