Posts by the boss


cufon – any font on your website


Posted By on Sep 29, 2011

(within legal usage restrictions naturally…) Currently updating a clients website to use a particular font that they have in their headings. The font looks really cool, but creating them with images is less google friendly that having a proper text heading in there. This is where cufon comes in. It allows your webdeveloper to use your favourite font but it retains readability (ie searchability) by the search...

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That’s right folks – with this becoming my full time career at the end of the year, BCG Webdesign is now a limited company. Feels weird being a company director… More admin stuff to do between getting some new business but plans are moving forward.

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Some SEO work


Posted By on Jul 20, 2011

Good catchup with Gordon and Shanoor at a great local company for PC and Laptop Repairs and IT Support. I’ve got some SEO work to do to help their profile, looking forward to it!

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New Therapies United online


Posted By on Apr 6, 2011

After a hard slog, the all new www.therapiesunited.com is up and running. Full of lots of jQuery loveliness it offers a much more polished look than the last – a few teething problems still exist, but are all getting sorted as they come along.  

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The end is in sight


Posted By on Mar 27, 2011

New Therapies United is installed but switched off for now – some final testing and updates before it goes properly live. A couple of users are lined up to give it some proper testing too. What’s next???

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jQuery loveliness


Posted By on Mar 15, 2011

I’ve been deeply involved in the redesign of www.therapiesunited.com over the last few weeks. It will look so much better with lots of lovely new jQuery effects and styling. Interactivity will be much more user friendly with even more cool stuff for logged in users. Watch this space for more info.

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WordPress 3.1


Posted By on Mar 1, 2011

As a keen WordPress user, some of my biggest sites are in WordPress, I always approach a new WordPress release with some caution. I have never had any bad experiences that haven’t been my own fault with WordPress updates and Plugin installs but it pays to be cautious when you have client’s websites at stake! So I resisted the urge to just click the ‘Update Now’ button on the backend and waited until I had some spare time on the weekend. Databases are backed up daily so it was just a case of taking a download of all the sites (minus my hundreds of images) and uploading the WordPress 3.1 update over the top. Everything went fine – Multi-user update okay – plugins all working – sites all back up and running....

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Font Resizing


Posted By on Feb 6, 2011

Just installed a great font resizer on Feel Good Therapies. Makes it easy for folks to resize all of the text on a page – and it is sticky too, so it stays for when you visit the page again!

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My top iPhone network tools


Posted By on Dec 28, 2010

If I can’t get to a PC for some essential checking I have some handy apps installed in my iPhone. Pingdom of course mentioned in a previous post VNC client for connecting to PC or server pTerm SSH terminal connection for when only the command line will do 🙂 WordPress for IOS for blogging/comment approving on the move. All of these are free – some have full on versions with added features which I may eventually need but these suffice for...

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Pingdom


Posted By on Dec 24, 2010

To keep an eye on my websites I use a tool called Pingdom. What it basically does is checks up on your website at a set period of time (eg 15 minutes) to make sure the pages get returned okay. It lets me relax safe in the knowledge that should the untoward happen and something fails on the server, then I get an email/text saying so. For the small fee it costs me it’s well worth it – keeping a client’s website up and running as close to 100% of the time is...

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