SiteLogic Web Development

This is my third, and possibly final post on automating website browsing!!
My previous two posts were Automate Website Browsing which discussed a browser containing a scheduler, so you can set it to browse sites at different times of the day, and Automatically Browse and Test Websites with Firefox which discussed the Salenium plugin for firefox.
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The market in Web Design templates is changing, its becoming ‘free’.
I recently did a site for someone who had paid for a template, which, whilst ok was only as good as the average template available from the Open Source Web Directory.

I have seen a few people ‘reselling’ templates for commercial companies, and to be honest […]

I am going off topic a bit here but I thought Id do a quick post on the benefits of touch typing!
I spend a lot of time typing, at work and home, typing E-Mails, Blog Posts, letters and documents, programming, using chat clients… a lot of button pushing!
I learned to touch type around five years […]

I have been reading a few blogs and forums discussing seo recently, and my favourite so far is Busin3ss has both a blog and forum discussing black hat seo.
The blog has a few tips and tricks, but the really useful stuff is all in the forum, which can be found by reading about YACG on […]

My last post discussed the Selenium IDE plug in for Firefox, which can be used to automate website browsing for testing purposes.
A limitation of Selenium as an automated browser is the lack of a scheduler, which would allow you to browse sites at set periods.
If this is something you want to do, then, the Easy […]

When working on websites / applications testing can be tedious, Selenium IDE makes that process a lot easer.
Selenium is available as a Firefox plug in and allows you to record your actions in the browser window.
Once installed you use Tools / Selenium IDE to open the control panel:

Then click the record button, and move to […]

Another Web Application I have been playing with recently is Content Solution, a content spinner
Content Solution can read in content from a range of sources, scraping content from Search Engines, Article Engines /sites, RSS feeds and text articles:

The scrapes are separated by article or search and can be individually edited as required. […]

Collaborating on projects with people in different locations / organisations can be problematic. dotProject is a free open source PHP application which makes this process a lot easier.
Being a web application it is easy to host / share across organisational / geographical boundaries. Being written in PHP means hosting is easy to find and cheap, […]

I have written a couple of posts on Alexa explaining why it is not worthless (it is used as a metric by advertising companies such as Pay Per Post).

Now I thought I would add a post demonstrating why Alexa is worthless!
I was looking at some of the “Movers and Shakers” on Alexa, and saw a […]

Ever wanted your personal copy of Amazon, well, if your mad enough, have a big enough hard drive and a very fast internet connection you can!
There are a few programs capable of ripping websites, the one I use is HTTrack Website Copier which:
Allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the […]