I now live in the middle of nowhere. There's no TV reception for Freeview and so I had no clue how to get a working TV because the analogue signal has been turned off. A trip to the local electrical shop solved the problem; Freesat. Read more here.
This is basically a box, […]
I'm presently targetting just tow "keyword phrases" for SEO purposes.
Surname Certificates
Surname Meaning Certificates
I'm pleased to say that I am on the first page of both of these in Google, so things are starting to look good. My next plan is to check on Yahoo and Bing. Forget the rest as these 3 […]
I've been so busy the last few days that I have had no time to do anything on the site. But I have to get it up and running, so I gave it a very basic design and got it online.
You can check it out at Surname Certificates - OK, I know […]
Spent an hour this morning getting the foundation of the site in place. I went to the HTML Layout page and chose a suitable layout, then I integrated the search facility and the paypal button. Also the image swapping.
All seems to work OK, so the next job is to make the site look better. To […]
Because I'm going to offer 2 or 3 different style of paper, I want the customer to be able to choose and see the paper they are buying. My initial idea was to just have the 3 styles on the page - job done.
Then I thought how cool it would be to have the […]
On the site I want to cut down on customer contact (eg, emailing to ask if XYZ surname is available) - so I definitely want some sort of search box.
I have all the surnames in a txt file (I think there are about 50,000 surnames). So it's pretty large. A while back I […]
Haven't posted in the last few days as I've been having too much fun in the snow! Anyway, in order to actually print the certificates it's obvious that I need a halfway decent printer. It only needs to be balck and white but of a decent quality of print - which means a […]
Obviously a printed surname certificate needs to be printed on something! Plain white paper will do, but it's possible to buy pre-printed paper which is made by a company called "Deca Dry".
I ended up getting mine from my local stationers and from the local hobby/craft shop. I'm also going to order in some specialist paper […]
Just a short note to remind myself of a good idea I had.
Once the "surname search" is coded, I want to try to link it into a twitter feed (so the tweets automatically appear). I found a Twitter PHP class at http://twitter.slawcup.com/twitter.class.phps which might do the job.
Eg (on Twitter); Someone just successfully searched for the […]
