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Noah’s Ark Pet Shop

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:53:36 +0000

Another WordPress blog making it easy for the client to update pages and offers. Some customisations on a standard theme to fit in with the clients requirements.

Navigate Marketing

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:49:44 +0000

A straightforward site for a professional services marketing company here in Edinburgh. Nice simple layout with a cool ‘word cloud’ on every page. Some nice stock images too.

Gallanach Cottage

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:43:50 +0000

Put together by bcg webdesign the site showcases a cottage set on the foreshore of LochGair an inlet of LochFyne.

A nice gallery page show’s off all the images taken by the site’s original designer and a bookings page links in to an external booking system.

Rapport speed problems

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:22:45 +0000

Not my normal line of work but vastly improved a client’s network connection speed today. Did all the usual checks to see what was slowing things down, Powerline networking was the prime culprit but it was fine.

The PC was generally a little sluggish so I looking at the Task Manager showed up a couple of Rapport processes taking up some (but not a lot) of CPU time… Killed them off and removed the program completely and the speed (check with www.speedtest.net) went from 2 or 3 mbps all the way up to proper BT infinity speeds of 35+ mbps. Result!

Rapport is supposed to be protecting your online banking experience – protecting it by making it soooo slooooooooow that you can’t do anything on it!

Teach Children Meditation

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:40 +0000

Another wordpress blog with nice customizations on the header image and a few other tweaks. Used by Lorraine of www.ilovefgt.com to give lots of information about the Calm Kids ethos, courses and promote the book.

Anna Evans Housing Consultancy

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:11:34 +0000

Straightforward website for a small business. Anna provided the text and ideas while BCG designed a template to lay it all out in. Some simple touches add to the website – static height to keep the look and feel the same on all screens – interactive menus – 100% html validated.

AR Classic Occasions

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:44 +0000

Another different genre for BCGWebdesign. AR Classic Occasions are a new wedding car hire firm who came wanting a good looking website to advertise their cars. So lots of pictures and galleries showing off their fabulous classic cars.

There is also a contact form to capture any requests from visitors to the site

My secret identity…

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:58:44 +0000

Following a chat with James Shoemark last Thursday I/We came up with my now not so secret identity.

Brainstorming about all the things I can do for people in need of help to get themselves a web presence, improve the one they have, getting social media juices going, or some techie-web-related advice we cam up with a name for me.

Master of the Geekiverse

Time to don my lycra and cape and do some good

WordPress tweaking

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:12:36 +0000

This week I have mostly been doing some WordPress work. Speed issues on one site, a new exciting site for Lorraine’s book on another and some updating tidying on my own network of WordPress sites.

iPhone telephone links

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:42:29 +0000

Did you know that without anything special going on, telephone numbers on websites are picked up by the iPhone (and iPad and probably all the other mobiles) web browser so they can be clicked. This brings up a call/cancel option.

I know there are proper ways to link to phone numbers (iPhone telephone hyperlinking for instance) but it just works anyway!

The reason I came across this was because an eagle-eyed client spotted an invisible telephone number (eh?) when browsing his site on an iPhone. Techie bit coming which you can skip past if you aren’t that way inclined. The phone number was dark grey on a white background on ‘normal’ browsers but all the website’s links were set to be white when untouched or visited. Thus the iPhone magic of making a phone number into a link, using the styling from the website made the link white on a white background. I simply gave the phone number a different class and some appropriate style for links in that class et voila – links that are visible on the iPhone and not links on ‘normal’ devices.

Well I thought it was interesting anyway…