I am amazed at the number of clients who approach me with great enthusiasm to have a web site built, who phone me almost every day to see if it is nearly finished ("are we there yet?") and then, when it does go live they seem not to be prepared to invest a bit of their time to ensure that fresh content is added on a regular basis. In fact it is as if they just forget that the site even exists! Look, if it was a real shop window it would be full of dust and dead flies!!

Such a shame that clever coders resort to wasting their lives writing malicious software. This trojan (not the Norton product with a similsr name) masquerades as a fine piece of anti-virus software complete with "would you like to update the anti-virus database now?". The giveaway that something is not quite right is that it keeps popping up very often with warnings about viral infections and popups that warn that someone is trying to hack in to your computer!

Wonderful is the world of the open source community.

Global e-commerce support for the Drupal web application framework has now reached the stage that online stores can be developed in just a few days. In times not long gone by, many store functions had to be hand coded - a time consuming and consequently expensive process - the cost of which frequently ranged upwards from $5000.

For anyone interested, I would like to draw attention to the fine efforts of Nic Steenhout. Based in Palmerston North, Nic runs a site that looks at various aspects of web accessibility and rightly points out that site builders need to pay more attention to the techniques that are available to aid people with disabilities. His site may be viewed at www.accessibility.net.nz and is well worth a visit as there is a good measure of interactive dialogue happening there.

Kudos, Nic.

Dear clients - a warning to those of you who do your own domain name renewals. I have received a renewal notification from an Australian company, Domain Renewal Group who, although they say they are doing you a favour by sending out a reminder, this reminder is presented in the form of an account.
This is not the first time our neighbours from across the ditch have tried that ploy here!