What it means to be a HEART Internet reseller

Posted in #WebDev on May 23, 2013.

There’s literally thousands of hosting companies out there in the world (wide web), so no surprise that choosing the right company can be challenging. Do you go for the best up-time, customer support, number of awards or feature sets?

I believe HEART Internet is able to offer one of the best overall services (>99% up-time, 24/7 friendly customer support, About.com and Host Review Award winners, great & innovative features!) which is why I’m set up to ‘resell’ their server space at a competitive price – Cheaper than you’d be able to get directly from HEART or from hosting competitors.

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JohnAlexanderRowley.com relaunched

Posted in #Optimisation, #WebDev, Personal on May 14, 2013.

Flatter, cleaner design. Quicker load times. jQuery cycle integration. Just three of an ever-growing list of things that I’ve been wanting to change about JohnAlexanderRowley.com for a while now. The last time the site was truly re-skinned was back with the removal of the black-and-green styling back in 2010.

This time, however, I wanted to go one step further than simply re-skinning. I wanted to build a completely bespoke theme, data-driven by a heavily modified back-end wordPress interface to allow for quicker site changes. I wanted to mitigate hard-coding all-together, not because I don’t like coding (on the contrary) but because it’s generally good practice and, more importantly, a challenge!

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Personal infographic now available

Posted in Personal on March 11, 2013.

I’ve not got a huge amount of experience in printed promotional material – It’s something I only started doing in the last 12 months – however I’ve been using Photoshop for, well, as long as I can remember. Purest marketeers will already be getting hot under the collar at the concept of using Photoshop, rather than InDesign, for anything print related. But that’s another article.

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Google Individual Qualifications – Pass grades and exam experience

Posted in #Analytics, #PPC on March 5, 2013.

Exactly one year after I sat (and passed – 88%) the Google Analytics Individual Qualification I decided over one revision-heavy weekend to sit all four AdWords exams (Fundamentals plus three advanced exams) and am delighted to say that I am now fully Google IQ certified

Fundamentals – 93%, Advanced search – 89%, Advanced display – 87%, Reporting – 75%.

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