The most recent project from my web design company in Spain, Zumo Internet has been launched. IPS UK Ltd supply commercial roofing products. They supply and arrange contracting for some of the largest roofing projects in the UK as can be seen from their case studies of installed roofing systems.
February, 2009
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Feb 09
Thickbox, accessibility and search engine optimisation.
Recently I noticed that whilst my new project the Vietnam War Timeline was organically racing up the search engines, through virtue of being in a niche and growing daily in content, the bounce rate was exceptionally high. A lot of traffic was coming in but not venturing beyond the entry page.
After a very quick investigation it became apparent why this was: all links off the timeline fire a new Thickbox window with the relevant content. It’s a nice way to keep people within the timeline when they need to look at more content. Moreover, it’s unobtrusive, meaning the links can just be followed as normal by non-javascript enabled browsers. Continue reading →
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Feb 09
0×80040600 (how to fix a corrupt Outlook pst data file)
Firstly thanks Microsoft for another of those beautifully crafted error messages.
I got one of these nice 0×80040600 Send and receive failed on all of my Outlook email accounts and after an hour of Googling and fidgeting with my laptop I managed to get to the bottom of it and find the fix. So here it is. Continue reading →
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Feb 09
Web design in Spain from Zumo Internet
It’s been a long time coming, but at last my company website for my services of web design in Spain has been launched.
The site promotes my services of web design in Spain (that is the most gratuitous bit of SEO I have ever undertaken in a post) and has been dangling around for 9 months as just a holding page. I decided to employ HTML 5 to develop the site just out of plain curiosity to learn. Although the elements in there make use of existing HTML elements rather than pushing the envelope too much.
It’s been a nail-biting, but exciting year for my fledgling business and slowly but surely enough clients have rolled in to give me a solid base to expand upon. I have more plans for the coming year, but nothing was ever going take precedence over the web site. It’s straight to the point at the moment but I intend to build upon it in the coming year to match the progress of the business. But for now, just enjoy it.
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Feb 09
Tips for Manipulating dates in MySQL.
Bypassing PHP to manipulate dates.
I despise working with dates in PHP. So much so that I now manipulate my dates using MySQL so I have everything I want in a php variable delivered by one SQL statement. Adding, subtracting, calculating differences and performing other date manipulations can be a pain in PHP. If you have a database connection running in your application it can be much quicker and easier to read if you work with dates in your SQL. The key to this is that you don’t need to work with tables and records in a database to use SQL. Many of the examples below don’t make queries against any record sets and yet they return valid results. Continue reading →