svekweb.co.uk

Been busy creating a javascript form for one of my customers – basically they wanted a form with authentication via a picture of them confirming their id for a fairly new site albeit of an “adult nature”. Having not seriously having had to write javascript for about 6 years found I was extremely rusty on it. Spent a good few hours finding that the reason I couldn’t upload images was because I hadn’t set enctype=”multipart/form-data” on the form. Text only forms can’t upload files – fairly basic when you know but not obvious until you realise it. So if you need to upload images as attachments to email messages – remember to set to form post type correctly. If not, you can see the client side file – you just can’t access it on the server.

Still progressing with the upgrade, mostly the changes to the admin side of the site first so that I can maintain the tips list better, I will post when SQL Tips are back up and running, I’m intending to make it have sections for SQL 2000 and Yukon (sql 2005) initially although I may also dedicate a section to replication since I’m often asked questions about moving replication to different servers and swapping publication and distribution servers.

Just added that to license to frill lingerie – you can see it at License to frill Lingerie

The drop in hits from google is still escalating, its only supplying 18% of the search engine hits on License to frill lingerie and links from google images are down to .02%. For the main site Svek itself it’s down to 10% for some reason. There are less links from froogle / google base for the oscommerce shop than there are directly from the ODP. And there are now more items in base than we ever had and according to the statistics coming back from google more people are clicking on the items in the shop from base than before. Ever get the feeling somethings not adding up somewhere!!!! The only change we’ve done is slow down the feed so that we feed less regularly than we used to (since items aren’t immediately searchable for a couple of hours after an upload that shouldn’t be the issue)

As all good webmasters do, I’ve been tracking hits from all the search engines for my customers websites. 12 months ago everyone seemed to trust google/ froogle and the majority of hits where sourced from there (mostly with DMOZ backup for the site) however, the trend is definately turning downwards for google and it’s “associated sites – base, froogle, images etc.” Now we’re seeing the majority of good hits coming from the “new (i.e. old)” kid on the block Yahoo with msn following in at a close second.
Google and google images in the last couple of months is definately the lame cousin although it used to be the main supplier of links. I don’t know if this is because of the adverse publicity of it’s adwords campaign or just consumer distrust now it seems to have grown too big.

Had a little problem with DNS updates but it looks as if it’s finally finished updating dns servers – longest time for a transfer yet. It’s now using php for the functions that were in asp but I haven’t migrated the sub domains yet so the tips library is offline until further notice (since the tips are at least 2 years out of date I don’t think that’s going to be an issue anyway!)