Benefits of having a mobile application

Posted by D C on 28th March 2012

There’s been a sensation about smart phones recently in particular Apples iPhone, and much speculation about its advantages and disadvantages, usefulness of developing applications.

Why is it beneficial to have your own mobile application?

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Is PPC worth your while - Tips and tricks.

Posted by D C on 21st March 2012

PPC or Pay-Per-Click advertising can be a very effective way of generating traffic to your website or products. However, in order to be successful with PPC advertising there are many guidelines you must follow so that you don’t lose all of your money. I could literally fill up 10 pages with PPC tips and tricks that would really benefit you but the most important ones can be found below.

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Wordpress: Moving from local to server side and the Blue velvet plug-in

Posted by Jason Carney on 21st March 2012

When moving from a locally hosted Wordpress site to a server, the site may display an error when accessed - this is due to the Wordpress database retaining the local URL in the “option_value” column, which resides in the wp_options database table.

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The SEO Starter Guide - Tips and Facts

Posted by D C on 14th March 2012
A simple Blog this week with a useful download supplied directly from Google giving you tips and facts on how to get started with you SEO.

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Howto: Merge Javascript and CSS files in Magento

Posted by Stuart Forster on 13th March 2012
Tagged: magento, js, javascript, merge

During a lot of the Research and Developement I've done on Magento websites, one of the pitfalls I often notice about other peoples magento websites is that they haven't bothered to merge the Javascript and CSS files.

This is a very simple task - and I'll show you how to do it.

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Linux: Copying from one folder to another without overwriting any existing files

Posted by Stuart Forster on 13th March 2012
Tagged: copy, cp, gnu-cp, gnu, linux

Here are a few tricks on how to copy files in linux from one location to another whilst not overwriting any files.

Using GNU Copy (which is not included in all distributions) you can simple use the -n (--no-clobber) option like follows:

cp -n /source /target

But, if you happen not to be using GNU copy, a nice little trick I found is to do the following:

yes n | cp -i /source /target

As you can see - I'm simply piping an n into the cp command to tell it not to overwrite any files.

Another option is to use RSYNC, example as follows:

rsync -r -ignore-existing /source/. /target/.

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The Death of Doubleclick

Posted by Simon Bos on 13th March 2012

Double Click Everything

Is the double-click facing extinction?

Most of us have experienced the frustration of watching a friend or family member struggle with computers...

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Online Terms Jargon Buster

Posted by D C on 9th March 2012

An outline of online Jargon that you may hear but don't really unserstand. Gravitywell a website design and build company based in Bristol try to be as down to earth and straight forward as possible when explaining the work we do, so here’s a little jargon buster that might be of use to get started.

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How to import a csv file using php

Posted by Dave Thomson on 8th March 2012
CSV (comma separated values) files of data are a common medium for importing data into web applications.  For example you may wish to import product data from a Microsoft Excel or Google spreadsheet into your Magento database.   There is no way to do this currently with the Zend Framework, however we have written a handy PHP component to make the task easy.

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