BloggingTips has for a long time been a place where guest bloggers are can submit posts. I have certainly raised the bar in the last 6-9 months for how good posts need to be to published here but there is no denying the overall standard of posts being submitted has dropped considerably in the last few months.

In two days I leave the wet and cold shores of Great Britain to sun myself in Bulgaria for two weeks. I will of course have my laptop with me and will be checking…

It looks like FireFox’s campaign to get the most software downloads in 24 hours has worked. They now have an announcement on their website saying :

Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we now hold a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3 and are now enjoying a safer, smarter and better Web.

I can only imagine their servers were under to cope with 8…

I was talking to a girlfriend of mine one day and she asked me what SEO writing was. She’s in publishing, so I was kind of surprised that she didn’t know.

Many of us who spend a great deal of time online every day forget that we are light years ahead of most computer users. And, if you blog, you are probably more tech-savvy than 98% of the population. Really! Consider this:

According to a recent survey by Opinion Research Corp., only 42% of the 1,090 consumers interviewed by phone…

Although the English language originates from England, it is one of the most spoken languages in the world and has spread to all corners of the globe. Countries where English is the first language are predominately those who were colonised by Great Britain at one point. Around 400 million people are native English speakers however in total there are over 1 billion people who can speak the language. Due to this there are lots of different variations of grammar, spelling and pronunciation.

For such a small area of land, the…

Web design is much more than layout and effects. There are so many areas and things every web designer should know. The profession itself requires a fundamental understanding of business, the craft itself, and technology. Employment in this profession requires skills in areas other than design. Many a creative web designer has come to realize that web design isn’t just about the latest visual effects and a creative design.

Those that are willing to learn the other skills involved in web design will find themselves with a long and successful career.…