just a handsome web developer talking about marketing, software, blogging, seo and making money

This is me. I'm a 26 year old web developer, blogger and entrepreneur from near London.

I've done work for people like Samsung, Vauxhall, Cadburys, Chevrolet, Center Parcs and TKMaxx.

I've been running this blog since 2006 and have reached more than 1.3 million readers, so feel free to say hi.

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• Review: Online Logo Maker (and the online icon maker)

  I'm always excited to undertake sponsored reviews because it forces me to look objectively at a website, piece of software or service that I may not have encountered otherwise.  This time I've been approached by the creator of the Online Logo Maker.One of the most important things to announce when looking at this application is that it's a free...

• Goodbye Steve Jobs - inventor, innovator and icon

  Today the world lost one of the most celebrated innovators; someone who catalysed technological advance, polarised opinion and helped architect the modern world. Today, I'm mourning the (somewhat inevitable, but no less upsetting) loss of Steve Jobs, Apple CEO at the young age of 56.The iPod completely changed the music industry (albeit not the first...

• 100+ awesome free and open source applications

  It has always amazed me quite how many incredible, varied and useful applications are available for free on the Internet.  Be it free, open source, web-based or merely passive trials - the number of top quality items on offer is huge. The purpose of this list is to help people realise that the free and open source software communities are expansive...

• 30 things you need to do to be a great web developer

  I'm forever being asked what it takes to be a web developer; and it's not as complicated as it might seem.  Learning a subset of the overall skills will get you hired, while a good attitude will keep you employed.  But is that really all it takes?Clearly not.  I seem to be in a perpetual cycle of interviewing candidates to join the team,...

• Leaving 9rules: finally removed the leaf. My thoughts on 9rules now.

  I don't know when it happened but I surely know the reason.  As of an unknown date (it really could be anytime in the past 2 years) my membership from 9rules has been revoked, as such I've removed the leaf from the site.9rules is a blogging network aimed at aggregating the best writers from various topics into a single place.  Essentially,...

• Top 10 reasons why I'm in love with Disqus and why you should consider using it too

  I've arrived massively late for the party, but I've only recently discovered Disqus - the third party commenting platform.  As such, I've entirely abandoned the old commenting system this site uses and migrated.You see, this site is a custom platform, built by my fair hand and as such, the commenting platform was also custom.  Which was fine,...

• How to import comments into Disqus using the generic WXR XML format

  I recently moved over the entire Seopher.com commenting system to be powered by Disqus. However, because this blog is a custom build, I'm not running on a known blogging engine, so I couldn't do an easy export to then import my old comments into Disqus. Fortunately Disqus allows you to import a generic WXR XML file, so it was just a case of generating...

• Leaving 9rules: finally removed the leaf. My thoughts on 9rules now.
• Top 10 reasons why I'm in love with Disqus and why you should consider using it too
• How to import comments into Disqus using the generic WXR XML format
• Review: Premium Fans - a company who sell you Facebook fans
• How Google suddenly made search results socially voted
• The pros and cons of migrating from shared hosting to having your website on Amazon S3
• Review: easily customisable Flash map from Flash World Maps
• Reports show Google is 90-95% of the search engine market
• The 'revive a blog' experiment - introduction
• Review: T3Leads third generation affiliate network
• Operating system trends 2009 - XP shows decline, OSX and Vista climb, Linux share declines
• Review: Super-Resell.com - 1,200 resellable products for only $37
• Review: Joomla Shop Builder - avoid this company like the plague
• Review: ActualKeywords - making keyword research a lot easier
• So what is cookie stuffing? Black hat SEO, black hat affiliates
• Wordpress Campaign Manager - the ultimate affiliate link management plugin
• Working with the Twitter API
• How user generated porn completely changed the online adult industry
• Review: WebHostingGuide - your guide to web hosting
• Wordpress Plugin testers required - apply within
• The 7 best fat footers used on high profile sites
• The 10 best viral marketing campaign videos
• Marketing stunt of the week: Bike Hero

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