Ginzola Blogs
As client work is completed and technical challenges are overcome a number of issues are raised that make excellent blog material. If you are technically inclined or simply interested in the topics below, please read on through these jorneys. Please feel free to contribute too. I hope you find something useful...
Time Machine Synctoy bakup methods
4th May 2008
Backing up valuable dataThe Apple solution
Part of Apple's latest operating system (OSX Leopard) is a new feature that gets shouted about with great gusto: time machine. Time machine is offered as the ultimate answer to backing up; an operating system integrated backup solution that offers 'invisible' backup. Does it work? I put Time machine to the ultimate test!
Time machine keeps regular incremental backups of all files to either an external USB hard drive or Apple's new hard....
Using a Mac vs a PC - an honest view
12th April 2008
Golden rule... never make predictions (but here I do)
Please note: This is not a 'mac is better than PC' article, or vice versa, but a comparison of the two for everyday use and application based on my personal experiences as an IT professional!
My introduction to Mac...
About Christmas time (07) I was involved in a project that involved a large amount of work in the Adobe creative suite. The versions I had on my PC were too old to be effective, so I knew I had to take the plunge and purch....
URLs, Titles and SEO - Technical SEO tricks
27th March 2008
URLs, Titles and SEO - Technical Tricks
When I am asked to review sites and their SEO, one of the first places to look is at the top. The title bar, and the URLs within the site. This article discusses what can be done in a site (programming wise) to improve the site's worth to the search engines. These methods are mainly used for enhancing database driven sites, such as e-commerce shops or content managed sites, but can be used to some extent with standard HTML sites too. ....
Making Menus Work for Search Engines, Mobiles and More
26th March 2008
Making Menus Work for Search Engines, Mobiles and More
by Daniel Fletcher - www.ginzola.com
Behind
the scenes, many web designs out there (and that includes some for some
large outfits!) use distinctly obstructive coding. That is, obstructive
in the sense that their content cannot be easily navigated nor found by
search engines. This is a difficult subject to cover in a non specific
way, but part of any good web SEO overhaul should include a careful
look at the coding and technical practices use....
SEO, Is your content relevant?
26th March 2008
SEO, Is your content relevant?
by Daniel Fletcher, www.ginzola.com
It
is not often that a web designer will give away all his/her tricks.
It's a bit like giving away a secret recipe; but that's exactly what I
will be doing in this blog!
The main focus of www.ginzola.comis to add value to people's existing web sites by developing them,
either independently or with existing web designers to enable better
traffic throughput from the search engines. I have found that there is
no 'easy' way to achiev....
Making a router work properly, quickly and effectively.
26th March 2008
Making a router work properly, quickly and effectively.
by Daniel Fletcher
This is probably a highly ironic article; since if you need it's advice then you probably can't connect to the Internet! I have installed a large number of routers for friends, family, Clients for all manner of networks. Some of the issues concerning their configuration are very common, but rarely documented unless you know what you are looking for! This is an article to expound on some of the more commo....
Guide to routing, part 1 - understanding IP
20th March 2008
Guide to routing for use at home, part 1 - understanding IP
When I am visiting a Client site, and I quickly open up a window on my
macbook pro to remote control my home pc to retrieve some live
information, people are often impressed... Or, when I am on the phone
discussing a site change with someone, and they are able to see the
changes 'live' on their PC, people are often equally dumbfounded. It's
often the assumption that this sort of trickery is expensive and/or
complicated to achieve. This ....
Guide to routing, part 2 - remote control, web and ftp at home!
19th March 2008
Guide to routing for use at home, part 2 - remote control, web and ftp at home!
Assuming you have read part 1 of this blog (or that you already know what a port , IP address and a WAN address is), then how does one use this to one's advantage?What's the aim?
The
aim, as alluded to in part 1 is to obtain access to information or
control of a computer at home or the office. This can be really
convenient if you are traveling about, want to give others the ability
to send you big files, or even host....
Power consumption of the Ginzola web server PC energy calculations green components
10th March 2008
Musings on the power consumption of Ginzola's web server PC & energy calculations.
by Daniel Fletcher www.ginzola.com
Ginzola.com has been operational for a number of months now, and I have been developing a number of web sites. A side effect of this activity has been the need to host test sites that are all based on php/mysql somewhere convenient. Since I recently moved over to a macbook pro for pretty much everything, my home PC (a rather big Dell Dimension 9200) has become a w....