How to get to the top of Google

One of the top questions I’m asked when working with any client is “How can I get to the top of Google?” or something along those lines. It’s a question I usually answer by saying “You need to produce lots of high quality, relevant content and your site needs to contain more content than competitors” … Read moreHow to get to the top of Google

How to set up Amazon S3 buckets with a custom subdomain

In the words of Amazon, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) “is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers”. Developers (including this one) use it to store stuff in ‘the cloud’. You *could* host a file on your own server, but your own server and configuration probably isn’t as fast, … Read moreHow to set up Amazon S3 buckets with a custom subdomain

How to set up CloudFlare’s Flexible SSL on WordPress

In August, Google announced they were going to start using https as a ranking signal for various reasons. At present, most developers and SEO people (deliberately refraining from using the word ‘expert’ because it’s thrown around far too much in the SEO world) agree switching a site from http to https has no real impact however Google did say they “may decide to strengthen” the signal in the future. In other words, in an ideal world, Google want all sites using https but for various reasons (including big financial ones) they can’t start hammering non-https sites overnight.

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How to make a responsive shield shape in pure CSS

I couldn’t find a shield shape written in pure CSS that would scale up and down to any size easily, so I decided to create one and i’ll share it with you. The reason i wanted a css solution and didn’t use a font icon was because i wanted to place something inside the shield… i could have just used a font icon to get the shield shape but placing a font icon within a font icon is a bit messy, plus i figured it’d require more code to get displaying reasonably well…

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