Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

MacBook Air hard drive too small? Fit a bigger one!

Posted on May 1, 2013

One of the biggest problems with MacBook Air is the small hard drive they ship with. Solid State Hard drives are fantastic, but you’ll be surprised how quickly you manage to fill up even a 250GB SSD if you’ve got … Continue reading →

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Adding custom field data into WordPress menus

Posted on April 1, 2013

One of the problems almost everyone has with developing CMS driven websites is generating navigation menus; particularly pretty or heavily customised menus that can be easily updated by the end user. WordPress (like Drupal) has a really excellent menu builder … Continue reading →

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New MacBooks featuring USB3 – where now for Thunderbolt?

Posted on June 12, 2012

As widely anticipated, Apple have released updated MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Price points have generally stayed the same as before, but we’ve got some nice speed bumps and new features. Foremost among these is the introduction of USB3… Where now … Continue reading →

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Creating routes for custom WordPress post types…

Posted on March 27, 2012

When you’re creating a somewhat more complex WordPress website, you might want to create some custom routes for any custom post types that you create. Whether this is to maximise SEO or just make the URLs a bit prettier, it’s … Continue reading →

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Create custom Catalog navigation menus in Magento…

Posted on March 27, 2012

Out of the box, Magento will happily give you a quite nice navigation menus of your Catalog Categories, including drop-downs for sub-categories. You also get a number of utility classes added to the individual list items, such as ‘level0 nav-6 … Continue reading →

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New website completed for Devizes based bathroom designers

Posted on January 16, 2012

We recently been working with Aqualis Bathrooms Ltd. Based in Devizes, Wiltshire, but working all along the M4 corridor, London and beyond,  they specialise in the design and installation of luxury bathrooms, wetrooms and stone floors. Like many companies, they’ve … Continue reading →

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Quickly create colour themes for Products, Categories and CMS pages in Magento…

Posted on January 5, 2012

It doesn’t seem to matter whether we’re working as a freelance web developer for companies in Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire or Timbuktu, at some point they will give us a design that has colour variations across groups of pages. Some pages … Continue reading →

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Quickly find the id of all Magento categories..

Posted on December 25, 2011

When developing a Magento powered e-commerce, you will almost inevitably have to import product data from a spreadsheet provided by your customer. And you almost certainly will need to convert the text based Categories they’ve used in the spreadsheet into … Continue reading →

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Cheap replacement for a Mac Superdrive

Posted on October 14, 2011

If you find that your Mac’s Superdrive has stopped working, or you’ve replaced your internal Superdrive to fit a solid-state hard drive and need a cheap way to get a working CD and DVD reader or recorder, your options are … Continue reading →

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Cheap Dell P and U series monitors as good as Apple Cinema displays

Posted on September 3, 2011

Whilst I’d love to be able to afford one of Apple’s 27″ Cinema Displays, the truth is they’re hugely expensive in comparison to a 22, 23 or 24″ quality display from Dell or Samsung. About 6 months ago I bought … Continue reading →

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