Alchemweb Blog

Developer (free) For anyone who wants to put up a simple site without hassle. …

Looking for a Wordpress Ecommerce Plugin? Well, good luck with that …!

This tutorial will show you how to style threaded comments using background images …

Do you want to block all the crud that Google promotes in its Serps?

Nominet is a registry. And if you’ve ever tried using it you’ll know what a headache feels like …

A superb little utility for picking colors off the screen

Dimscreen, a lovely little programme for dimming your monitor screen …

Amazon does a ton of things right, almost too many to list – but it also does some things wrong …

Case study: how marketing can be used positively for social causes that benefit us all …

How we market ourselves when looking for Mr. or Mrs. Perfect ..

Wherever there’s change or contrast there are marketing opportunities …

Emotional connection, strategy, attention – how do you succeed on the internet?

Anyone who’s ever dabbled in writing a little poetry will have learnt a few basic life-skills, skills that can also be applied to marketing …

What’s the ‘Marketing Mix’? An unconventional analysis …

Here’s a dirty little secret. When you land a jump in ice skates you’re effectively landing flat-footed on concrete in bare feet with weights attached to your legs …

LCD monitors aren’t good for you …

Everyone and their dog used to say that ‘content is king’. Then it became ‘concept is king’ and then maybe ‘linkbait is king’ …

A simple tip for tracking down PHP errors

I’d like to strip the half-truths from Google’s results …

.com – win, win, win. Everything else – lose, lose, lose! …

Yellow Pages – in many ways it’s still better than Google for the end-user …

So Google says we’re not allowed to buy links, huh?

For a long time the mantra of the SEO expert was that gaining visibility in the search engines required top-quality content …

Not so long ago I went and bought a reasonably expensive item from a shop I regularly visit. But times are hard, and he’d chosen …

It’s not a good move to lease a domain name …