All web designers who undertakes a lot of monthly maintenance for their clients must implement a checklist system for keeping track of the tasks performed for each client.

Having a separate task list for each client can complicate things. As a very visual person, I prefer to give myself a general picture of each month's maintenance work, so that I get a real sense of the amount of work left at the end of each day: I can then allocate time more effectively - and it just feels more structured.

We are releasing another free template, this time the theme is mobile disco and DJ. Dark background and contrasting bright colours, a top navigation menu and a left sidebar for more internal links.

The theme comes as a .zip file containing an index.html page, an image folder (all images are copyright-free) and a CSS stylesheet.

As always, this free web template validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1.

You can preview the template here.

The default installation of Magento has two lines of footer links, one that you can edit from the CMS tab of your admin (under Static Blocks - Footer Links) so you can add links to your own content and one that is dynamically generated by Magento via a set of XML and PHTML files. It's a bit of a maze but for help on editing individual links on this second block follow this tutorial.

We have just introduced a new service called website healthcheck. This came about because lately I have found myself offering advice to many businesses that already had a web presence but were concerned about its performance.

Nodewords is an absolutely essential Drupal module. In fact, I am not sure why its features are not implemented in Drupal out-of-the-box. I was quite shocked to discover that Drupal doesn't include support for meta tags, so basically there is no way to add keyword and description meta tags to your pages (or "nodes" as they are called in Drupal - why? no idea) unless you install and configure Nodewords.

So you do.

So, here it is: our brand new website.

What's different? Quite a lot actually. If you remember the old look website, the first thing that will strike you is the much more minimalistic approach. Gone are the retro graphics and Flash animation.

WebRightNow is about "fresh" and contemporary web design, so we wanted to reflect that in the new look.

Also, we now offer a whole range of new services, like SEM, CRM and web hosting. There are some great web design packages that we believe offer amazing value for money: these can be purchased online via Paypal.

I have recently been working on an update for a previous client, Toque Tambor. Their “web person” (every band or community has one) was keen to integrate Youtube and Flickr into their website. I had previously installed both a video and a photo gallery on their site www.toquetambor.com but he was finding it hard to update and couldn’t afford to pay for my services every time one of their gigs was filmed or photographed.

As a web developer, you will want to be able to test your pages on different versions of the major browsers, especially the troublesome IE. The problem of course is the fact that ever helpful Microsoft have made it almost impossible to install multiple versions of their browser on a single machine. I said “almost” because of course, where there’s a will there’s usually a clever way. Which is this: the Maddalone/Staudinger workaround, which basically works by removing certain DLL files and making some changes to the registry.

The hardest part of the transition from laying out pages with tables to using CSS and nested DIVs, was for me the tedious process of testing the layouts on different browsers and finding that the code was being interpreted in wildly different (sometimes completely illogical) manners, yet not being able to visualize exactly what each browser was “seeing”.

Having recently printed 5000 flyers to promote the website and get some more clients, I was then faced with the dilemma of how and where to distribute them, and how many.

The problem was trying to predict the level of response I might get from the campaign. There are plenty of leaflet drop services, and I was looking at around £300 for having all 5000 dropped through people’s doors in my local area (no company would do less than 5000 anyway).