It’s an incredibly busy start to the year for us here at frag.co.uk; but we’ve just got time to make you aware of an important event on today, 18th January. There will be an INTERNET BLACKOUT on many websites. Wikipedia, Reddit and many other sites may be unavailable. These sites (along with ourselves) are campaigning … Read more
Our sincere apologies for a lack of content these last few weeks; but as usual, with the run-up to Christmas we’re quite busy with client requests and preparing for the new year. However, in the meantime; we’ve found a recent post of BoingBoing that may be of interest to our readers: Eminent neuroscientist Moran Cerf … Read more
Google make around 500 changes to its search system each year; some are minor changes, but some have huge impacts on your sites’ search position. Possibly one of the most important changes is a focus on fresh content; something that has been featured in the Official Google Blog; As we announced just over a week … Read more
In November, approximately 16 years ago, I gave myself the challenge to write a screensaver in time for Christmas. It gave the effect of falling snow over the desktop, at varying speeds and including wind and various speed settings. Each snow particle was to be stored individually, and contain it’s speed, colour and trajectory. It … Read more
We’ve been working with JustMustard.com on a very special project involving ZenCart eCommerce software. JustMustard is an online retailer and wholesaler of a variety of very strange and very awesome gifts and presents. We really enjoy working with them. Plus we really want some Pixel Oven-gloves. However, ZenCart is viewed with both praise and disdain … Read more
Most developers will come across a need for paged content; perhaps for products on a website, or for long articles; but how is this best done for search? Google have recently announced more support for previous/next pages, and have offered two options; Using the <link> tag in the <head> container, to ‘Canonicalise‘ the individual pages … Read more
If you’re a regular user of Google, I’m sure you’re familiar with the plus operator. It’s used as a tool by power users to narrow down results to ensure words will be in the search results. If not, you’re probably familiar with Google rewriting your query to try and help your results; most commonly this … Read more
In a fairly unexpected report, Google have announced that SSL will be enabled for a number of users by default. Along with GMail, secured by default last year, and Twitter and Facebook providing secure versions as an option, Google will be introducing secure searches to users over the coming weeks. Google have provided a secure … Read more
Steve Jobs, co-founder and charismatic CEO of Apple passed away last night at the age of 56, following a decade-long struggle with cancer. Despite their rivalries on the business side of things, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been great friends, so much so that once news of the Apple legend’s passing was announced, he … Read more
If you’re anything like us, at times you can be obsessive about the visitors on your site. As most of our customers know, we love the features that Google Analytics provides, and along with other tools can be a great asset to SEO. In the last few days, Google have updated their Analytics interface again, … Read more