Lee Mason

Okay, so i need to get this down and physically there or i won't do it. This is my plan for the next week or two:

  MORE DOCUMENTATION FOR THE WP ULTIMATE PLUGIN

A NEW UPDATE WITH NEW FEATURES FOR THE WP ULTIMATE PLUGIN

CONFIRM AND FINISH THE WEBSITE FOR LOCAL TATOO SHOP

GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MY WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH ITALICAUK LTD

UPDATE HOSTING SITE TO USE IE COMPLIANT STYLING (needs an update anyway so redesign in order)

GET A FEW MORE HOSTING CLIENTS

GET MORE AFFILIATES ON BOARD FOR MY PLUGIN

MAYBE GET INTO MORE WORDPRESS THEME DESIGN (premium templates, etc)

  sorry for caps, need to emphasise how important this is.

Just working on my new release for the WP Ultimate plugin.

Just been cleaning up my firefox window. I have so many addons (mainly for web development) and all my bookmarks across the screen, there was barely a url textbox to use. Here is my new cleaned up browser window with no distractions lying around.

  After customizing the toolbars i've been able to put all my addons across the bottom right of the screen:

Stumbelupon

Webpage Validator

Firebug

Shareaholic Stats Monitor

Shareaholic bookmarker

YSlow

WebRank SEO Toolbar

Adobe BrowserLabs

A colour Picker addon i forgot the name of

ScreenGrab!

Just been checking my stats on the new web app cloudflare. Im not going to go too much into what it does, but the basics of it are very good and in my opinion a must for every website, the savings must be even better for high traffic/bandwidth sites.

  Basically instead of routing your domain to your hosting account, you send it to to the cloudflare network and they then run checks etc before sending it to your site.

  The checks it does are checks for web spammers and generally people/bots you dont want being sent to your site. You get options on how harsh your security settings are and the app checks against a daily maintained list of good/bad visitors.

  If its bad the app challenges them with captures and details of why (like a spam check on a contact form).

  On top of that the cloudflare network has a CDN which caches your pages and makes your site A: faster and B: reduces the load on your server (cached pages don't even get to your hosting account they are delivered from the CDN).

  My site was pretty fast anyway (being a web designer it should to promote that i dont make bloated sites). And loaded in under 1 second. My site is also quite new so the traffic is relativley low, but even i have seen the benifits.

  Using FireBug i can tell my site is slighly more responsive and susequent page views are dramatically faster. (I belive the added responsivness is more down to the more local dns lookup from the CDN as the pages are very well optimised already).

  The bandwidth savings i have seen over the past week or so have been about 50% and the same can be said for the page requests.

  The app also gives you a easy interface which can detail unique visits, visitor type, and hits. Its a basic analytics system, but if needed (which i dont) you can use get clicky or still add your desired analytics through the app.

  Below are the screenshots and i hope you all take a look and give it a whirl. setup is quite simple (DNS changes for domain are about as complex as it gets).