Website DIY

Web-site Security: blocking user agents, requests & query strings

AW — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:23:12 +0000

Your first line of defence in preventing common vulnerability scans, directory traversal, and code injection attacks. A must read, if your web-site is hosted on either Apache (Linux) or IIS (Microsoft) servers.

WordPress Child Themes: 4 ways to avoid inefficient CSS import

AW — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:51:40 +0000

Google and Yahoo advise against using “CSS @import”. However; tutorials on creating Wordpress Child Themes (including the Wordpress Codex) invariably use the “@import rule” in the child stylesheet . Find out how to avoid CSS import ....

WordPress Security: why you should NOT require commenters to register.

AW — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:45:05 +0000

Last month there were reports that a cyber-criminal gang had infected 30,000 Wordpress blogs to market “anti-virus” software. Wordpress is a popular target; keep your version and plugins up to date; and don't expose your site to unnecessary risks. If you require users to register before posting comments, for no other purpose than as part of your spam prevention strategy, then think again: ............

WordPress: the fast way to add your own CSS on top of a theme

AW — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:21:38 +0000

Index: Introduction. Just show me how to do it. Plugin verses Child Theme – pros & cons. Inspiration. Skeleton plugin code.

Blocking hackers and spammers from your site

AW — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:30:51 +0000

This article is about one of your first lines of defence – blocking unwanted visitors/bots from your site, by IP location. Part 2 will look at blocking by User Agent. Assumptions: you know what an IP address is, you are able to edit .htaccess, or have relevant role/permissions on IIS etc to deny IP addresses. [...]

Travel Related Posts moved to a new blog

AW — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:27:51 +0000

The address of this blog is not very "travelly" so I've decided to move Travel related posts to blog.travelchimps.com. Some links for posts about the travel widget, have been retained, but will open as pages on the new travel blog. In future this site (wptest.means.us.com) will be used for posts on web-site development and IT issues.

New Travel App for Facebook Users

AW — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:52:24 +0000

This blog has been split in two. Clicking to view, will redirect you to this post on the new travel blog.

Announcing apps.facebook.com/travel-info/. I like to think of it as the swiss army knife of Travel Apps. From travel and health advice by country, to weather and WIFI location by town; it provides the tools you need to research and plan your trip. The App includes the following tools:

Version 1.0.0 of WP Travel Advice Widget released.

AW — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:52:20 +0000

All users should update to version 1.0.0 by end Sept 2011 (as advised on 25 March in v0.9.5; the larger non-cached file retrieved by previous versions wil no longer be available). What’s new: Country advice pages are displayed faster, and both summary and detailed information are shown on one page. Additionally the size of the [...]

Travel Widget tweeted by UK Foreign Office

AW — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:43:51 +0000

This blog has been split in two. Clicking to view, will redirect you to this post on the new travel blog.

I'm pleased to say our travel information widget has been tweeted by the FCO, and also showcased on data.gov.uk.

Next projects:

AW — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:18:01 +0000

I considering restarting two old projects of mine written in Visual Studio Express for windows machines, both work but need ”tarting up” for issue as freeware. Custom A0/A1 size Year Planner: Specify any starting month, and year; and it will generate an Excel Spreadsheet containg the A0/A1 wall planner for you to print off or further customise as [...]