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Switching a website to SSL

It was once accepted that only websites handling financial data (such as customer credit card details) would need to implement security and get the padlock in the visitor's address bar - but not any longer. The padlock indicates that the ... (more)

Facebook Commenting for Websites

Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)

Geo-targetting your website

Does your company have a local presence in many different countries, or do you run a site where it makes sense to keep visitors from different countries away from each other? There are a number of follow-on questions here. Does it matter ... (more)

Getting your Windsave Site Survey

Have things gone a bit quiet with your Windsave Wind Turbine order? They had for us. We had been told that we would know of our site survey date by the beginning of October, and by the middle of October we'd heard nothing. A call to Windsave ... (more)

Heating Oil Websites can be Deceptive

Impartiality in the heating oil domestic market can be as slippery to grasp as the heating oil itself. Last time you visited a heating oil website that offered oil quotes, did you know which company was actually quoting you? And when you ... (more)

Other Model Railway Sites

iRail - An index of all railway and model railway related websites in the UK and Ireland. (more)

How to Know if a Website is Safe to Buy From?

We found companies: There is one company match: Sorry! There are no results for . Believe it or not, all these years after the explosive growth of WWW commerce, there's still no definitive way to tell if a website is legit ... (more)

Polar Opposite Tweets

Two people, both of whom I enjoy following, tweeted rather different things first thing this morning. It made me smile... James Bowthorpe (@GlobeCycle), currently cycling around the world, described some trials and tribulations of his epic ... (more)

Google +1 for all Websites

Webmasters can now put Google's "like competitor" +1 on their web pages. Many webmasters will groan with trepidation at the thought of having to squeeze yet another piece of social javascript junk onto their beautifully crafted pages, but ... (more)

Twitter Intents make websites Twitter-like

Twitter has added a new string to its impressive API collection, and this one is aimed squarely at web publishers who republish tweets. With a bit of (very simple) HTML and a Javascript inclusion, we can create links that favorite, retweet ... (more)

About Us: Julii & John Swindells

Some Background Information Swinny.net is a family-run web site. It is engineered, written and edited by Julii and John Swindells. We run advertising on certain sections of the site. To find out more about what this means to you, please ... (more)

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