Design Counts on Websites and the Internet

There is a buzz about the the new web standards and I have started to put together a page on HTML5 books and online resources.

I just received a new Black BT Hub as I had agreed to another 12 month BT Broadband and the offer included a new BT Hub. Now while it did take 2 e-mail contacts to get the 12 months contract sorted out after the intial telephone call from BT Sales I now forgive them for making a total cock up of the order as I am delighted with the new BT router, it is at least 30% faster than my 2 year old BT router, both on a direct network connection and on a wireless connection to a laptop.  So, if you are on a BT broadband contract contact BT Sales and ask if they have any deals that include a free Broadband router for taking out an additional 12 month contract and you to may be surprised (delighted) with the increased speed. I have to admit at this point that it is possible that my replace router was faulty in some way as I had been experiencing problems with it. However getting a router worth £90 free just to agree a 12 month broadband contract when I had every intention of staying with BT in the first place is an amazing good deal.

A number of years ago I set up a number of directories using software from Mr CGI Guy and I actually purchased a licence for all the products. For one reason or other I stopped putting a links directory on my website and stopped using the scripts (although I still have a licence to use them). Today I came across a website that had implemented a Links Directory to have travel accommodation listed, this is similar to my original plan and it was using the software called PHP Link Directory – I am pretty impressed with the software and it costs from $30 a directory.

For a while Google was not giving directories using scripts such as these any Page Rank however as I have discovered it does not appear to be relevant if a page has a PR or not, it can still get listed well in a search engine without a page rank, so I again may investigate using software to create an online directory.