MailChimp provide a great email marketing service; you can start off for free and only have to start paying as your list, and presumably your profit, grows. But I can’t for the life of me understand why the embedded signup form they provide is so goddam ugly. I just wanted Read more…
If you want to build a website, you’ll need somewhere to host it. Check the fine print; there are often limitations that you don’t discover until you go to implement the functionality you need and discover you can’t do what you need to. My requirements are: Linux based hosting. (Well, Read more…
MailPress is the most powerful free self-hosted automatic newsletter and mailing list package for WordPress. If you don’t believe me see my [intlink id=”317″ type=”post”]comparison with other WordPress newsletter plugins[/intlink]. If you have a blog with many subscribers, you don’t want to spend time handling bounce messages from readers who Read more…
When I built The Confident Man Project website, I wanted to create affiliate links from keywords in the articles on the site so that I got paid when a visitor purchased a product that I recommended. Rather than inserting these links manually, I wanted them generated automatically so that all Read more…
If you’ve visited my home site before or are on my newsletter mailing list, you may have noticed that they look rather different now. That’s because I recently switched from the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS) to WordPress. Joomla! is a very powerful system and I know it reasonably well; Read more…
WordPress Plugins evolve rapidly. This article was last updated on 19th January 2019. One of the reasons WordPress is such a great blogging platform is the thousands of plugins available to add to its core functionality. There are so many available that it can be hard to choose which ones Read more…
WordPress plugins evolve rapidly. This post was last updated 20th January 2019. When I first started building sites with WordPress, I investigated a bunch of different automatic newsletter generation options. Initially MailPress appeared to be the best fit for my requirements, but since it’s demise I’ve switched to MailPoet. Here Read more…
I recently migrated one of my websites to a different hosting service. If you have a blog or website that you want to move, you can follow the same process to do so without any downtime for your visitors. Over the past couple of years, I’ve built several websites hosted Read more…
Last time I looked, Exetel had the cheapest deal on combined ADSL2+ & telephone bundles in Australia. Six months ago I decided it was time to upgrade from ADSL1 to ADSL2+. Those YouTube videos kept stalling, and I was building more and more websites so I wanted a faster Internet Read more…