It's been my experience that almost all of my clients, both potential and actual, want to show "high in Google". One client in particular is very concerned about this aspect of his on-line business. He has just enough knowledge of the internet, and search engine optimisation in particular, to convince him that there exists some magic arcane wizardry that will propel his site up the Google rankings and he wants me to sacrifice whatever animals are required to make this happen for him.

Throughout the time I've known this client I have repeatedly talked about such concepts as writing excellent content, appealing to his target market, creating an enjoyable, feature-rich worthwhile site and the value these could have in powering a site up through the Google atmosphere.

It's a pleasant feeling to find an article that reflects my own beliefs and ideas, shares my philosophy for web development and so I've shared it here.

You can pick any two.

This is the Designers' One Rule. When creating a project, clients may choose only two options - they can't have it all. It's a "rule" for Life that applies aptly to design - clients simply have to deal with it. And we, as Web designers, must also accept this as fact.

And so, here it is:

GOOD - FAST - CHEAP

GOOD service FAST won't be CHEAP

Choose good and fast and we will postpone every other job, cancel all appointments and stay up 25-hours a day just to get your job done. Of course don't expect it to be cheap.

GOOD service CHEAP won't be FAST

Choose good and cheap and we will do a great job for a discounted price however you'll have to be patient until we have some free time from paying clients.

FAST service CHEAP won't be GOOD

Choose fast and cheap and you can expect an inferior job delivered on time. You truly get what you pay for and in our opinion this is the least favorable choice of the three. In fact, we most likely won't even offer this option - financially it's a poor choice for us and professionally we don't wish to be associated with low-quality work.

There is no setting within sNews CMS to adjust the locale or time zone. It's necessary to open snews.php and add the following code, somewhere near the top of the file.

The function date_default_timezone_set() has been available since PHP v5.1.

I have used Europe/London (I could have used Europe/Dublin, or Europe/Edinburgh - each is within the same time zone as my home town). Replace Europe/London with your own choice from this list.

An alternative method is to use

in your .htaccess file.