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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 [...]

Although it is very early to make any conclusions, it is worth noticing that in the 24 hours since we instituted a small change to the .htaccess rules on one of the blogs we manage (talked about in previous post), the volume of spam comments being held by Akismet has dropped by almost 75%. Comparing [...]

Recently we were reviewing the measures we could take to reduce the spam hitting the email accounts we manage and the blogs we are responsible for overseeing. It will probably come as no surprise to most of you, but it was very easy to identify some obvious trends. Fortunately a response was equally easy. By [...]

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 [...]

After committing the cardinal sin of using the “Web 2.0″ phrase in a previous post, I was curious enough to look round some other sites to see what sorts of nonsense there is out there.
By pure chance, I also looked through the logfiles and statistics on several of the sites I have access to and [...]

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 [...]

Who sets the standards for HTML? The W3 (World Wide Web Consortium). The consortium was created 1994, to achieve agreement on core principles and components of the web standards.
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Should I use Web 2.0 technologies and techniques?
As always, the answer depends on what your web site does.
If it’s a hobby site, it’s up to you how far you want to enhance the user’s experience.
If it’s an educational or cultural site, experimental sites are always welcome, even expected. However, you will probably have [...]

Why use a style sheet? In the past, formatting instructions were embedded in HTML. So a block of text to be shown in 16 point red Times Roman ended up being surrounded by the tags <FONT FACE=”Times”> <FONT COLOR=”red” > <FONT SIZE=”16pt”> (before the text) and </FONT></FONT></FONT> (after it). This takes a lot [...]

(Following up on the last post about spam IPs) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) published an IP list showing the allocation of IP blocks. According to this, all IPs starting with:

5 and 95 are IANA reserved
6 are US Army
18 are MIT

That leaves 85 and 75 as possibly real IPs.
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