Blog posts in 'Website design'


Add SEO slugs to OpenCart products (PHP Script)

After using WordPress for years, it was a shock on the last OpenCart project to switch on SEO URL’s and for not a lot to happen. It transpires that each product has a SEO keyword field, which specifies the slug, … Continue reading

Group images together for use with Fancybox (jQuery)

Fancybox is a great jQuery plugin with lots of great options.  Here is a small snippet of jQuery to add the grouping vai jQuery, which you might want to do with say a WordPress gallery so the client doesn’t need … Continue reading

Social Media for Business

Here’s a great (& award winning) presentation with an intro and thoughts on social media for business. Many thanks to Sterling for sending me through the link.

Do you sell online? Are your terms legal?

If you sell on-line, whether large or small and you despatch goods then you definitely need to be clued up on the Distance Selling Regulations. If you don’t then you might get a nudge from the Office of Fair Trading … Continue reading

Twitter background template for Photoshop (PSD file)

Free download of Twitter background template, showing areas for the most common resolutions with a rough guide on percentage of people that have that resolution or higher.  So, keeping your important info to the left-hand 260 or so pixels … Continue reading

Google Labs tool answers how much of your site do people see?

The Google Labs Browser Size tool overlays a visual guide to fundamentally help you assess whether your audience can see the important bits without the need to scroll (http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/). The core problem is that while offering some degree of use … Continue reading

Google Sidewiki a success

Google hails the 2 month entrance of Google Sidewiki a huge success. It can be a great way to portray important information or a welcome to users of a page, or to alert them that a particular item on that … Continue reading

10 Things to do after installing the wonderful WordPress

If you are new to WordPress or would like some tips on some things you might want to do or think about next, then read on. For our customers, we will have taken care of some of the points for … Continue reading

Using Google Docs as a quick and easy CMS

In search for a simple CMS to use on a holding page, my thoughts turned to Google Doc’s. 10 minutes later I had a script that works very nicely, so thought I would share it. To use: Create a Google … Continue reading

Are you starting a membership site?

Interesting hour long video from Blogworld Expo 2009 with Timothy Sykes. Covers lots of great ideas and things to consider for your own membership site venture. [vimeo id="7140070"]