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Download the Why Dont You Blog WordPress Theme.
The Word Press theme designed for the WhyDontYou Blog is now available for download (free, released under the creative commons licence). It is not a “sponsored” theme, but there are links back here in the footer which we request you leave in place. In addition, there is a [...]

After quite a wait, Wordpress 2.2 is now available for download and install.
While we think this is a good thing, Compuskills are currently advising customers who have a WP 2.1.3 installation to hold off for a little while before doing the update. If you give it a few days, people will have the chance to [...]

Just a reminder for everyone who uses WordPress that there has been a security upgrade (patch) released. Find out more.
If you are Compuskills customer, your word press has been upgraded.
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For people using WP to run their blogs:
It appears that the files for 2.1.1 have been hacked into and corrupted, all wordpress 2.1* users are advised to upgrade to 2.1.2 as soon as possible.
You can read more on the dev blog: WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2.
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FireStats is a system for getting web statistics. You can download it from firestats.cc homepage or you can get it as a WordPress plugin for a blog.
It gives you a fascinating insight into how many hits your pages are getting, which pages are getting accesssed, how they got there, what browsers and operating systems [...]

Two weeks ago we said how we were looking at trialling Expression Web, seeing what sort of sites it produced and how it compared to the likes of Dreamweaver and Bluefish (our current favourites).
Sadly, after two weeks we still cant get into the software well enough to make use of it. This is not a [...]

What is Javascript? Firstly, Javascript has little in common with Java, which is a full-scale programming language. Javascript is a scripting language, mainly used to add functionality to web pages, through actions performed on the user’s computer (client-side) Javascript can carry out actions that aren’t possible using standard HTML. These actions include opening pop-up [...]

We have been fortunate enough to have been given a copy of MS Expression Web design software for a trial basis. The intention is to create some of our personal sites using this tool and see how it compares against the likes of Dreamweaver, NVU (which has been blogged about by staff in the past) [...]

The Extended Live Archive is an excellent wordpress plugin that lets you automatically create an AJAX powered archive page for your WordPress blogs. We have currently set it up on a blog for you to see it at work here.
It does suffer from one massive problem though. It wont work in anything except IE 7.
This [...]

Skype is the world’s main provider of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) telephone services. It provides free PC to PC phone calls. Its paid services offer PC-to-phone calls and supply additional software like KishKish
The KishKish add-on analyses audio streams for signs of stress that are supposed to identify lying.. See BBC report.
However, according to [...]