HigherSites will be exhibiting at Business South this week on the 4th & 5th March. The exhibition is at St. Mary’s Stadium, Southampton, so if you’re in the vicinity or planning to visit yourself, why not come and say hello to us at stand 78. You can also enter our free prize draw to win an iPod Touch!
Today we are recording the inaugural HigherSites podcast, which will be called “Two Beards and a Barnet”. The podcast is our opportunity to discuss important issues arising in the world of web development, not to mention plenty of irreverent chat and, dare we say, comedy. The success of this venture, and its business generation ability, remains to be seen, but we hope you’ll tune in for episode one, coming shortly to www.highersites.co.uk and iTunes.
You can send in your questions and comments to podcast @ highersites.co.uk.
I recently imported a database which included a selection of French postcodes. Because of a bug with the original export (received in a spreadhseet) some of the postcodes were missing the leading zeros, and some of them actually had more leading zero’s than were required.
Unfortunately the problem wasn’t raised until the data was imported, and a fresh import was going to take me hours. Fortunately all French postcodes are 5 characters long so it was possible to fix this problem programmatically. Continue reading
Whilst performing a standard Request.HTML with MooTools 1.2 I suddenly encountered an unexpected ‘Access to restricted URI denied’ error even though the .PHP page I was referencing was in the same directory as the file which was referencing it.
var sendform = new Request.HTML({
url:'ajax-email.php',
update: $('email-response')
}).post($('contact'));
Author: Rob Swan
Many moons ago, when I was an undergraduate, I worked as a video game functionality tester in Brighton. There was a lot of pizza and late night gaming involved, but amongst all of the fun I saw the repeated mistakes of many, many developers and it taught me a core concept:
“Learn to visualise all possible design scenarios” Continue reading
Spammers all around the globe are profiting on a daily basis from poorly written form to email scripts. Scripts like this can be abused by spammers, who will inject new email headers into the form fields, effectively allowing them to send whatever message they want, to whomever they want, courtesy of your mail server. Once they find a vulnerable script page, they will mercilessly hit it with their spam robots and send as much spam as they can until your server inevitably keels over and dies, possibly taking your websites with it. Cue phone calls from lots of unhappy customers and a time-consuming mail queue clean-up job.
Following the success of our many previous workshops and as part of our continued involvement with the Connecting Somerset Technology for Business Programme, HigherSites will be presenting a 3 hour online marketing workshop on the 19 November 2008 at The Exchange in Bridgwater. The fully updated programme will include: SEO myth busting; background information on the science of search; an introduction to standards compliance and its impact on search engine ranking; tips and guidance on how to get your website ranked better; an introduction to pay-per-click (PPC) marketing with Google AdWords, and; much more.
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