Tag Archives: Web Development

Stop iPhones overriding small font sizes in email marketing campaigns…

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Because of the multitude of different email clients your customers might use, web designers and developers have to adopt some regressive and sometimes bizarre hacks to ensure HTML marketing emails look the same in every email client. The main culprit … Continue reading →

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Customising Magento PDF Invoices to show personalised terms of sale

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Magento is, as everyone knows, an ecommerce platform for the web. But it can also be used as a tool to tie your offline sales to your online sales. I’ve recently been working with a traditional “offline” retailer based in … Continue reading →

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Fixing problems with DirectoryPress and other Premium templates.

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

I got a call a few days ago from a Search Engine Optimisation agency in Salisbury, who were having a problem with their WordPress website. They had bought a custom theme, DirectoryPress, which enables you to quickly develop a “Listing” … Continue reading →

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New WordPress website build completed for Bath Direct Marketing Consultant

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

We’ve just wrapped up work on another WordPress website! We were hired by a web design agency, based in based in Bradford on Avon, to develop the website for a Direct Marketing Consultant who’s based in Bath. They gave us PSDs and … Continue reading →

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Fixing problems with Magento creating empty invoice PDFs

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

I recently had a problem where Magento was producing the PDF invoice, but no text was visible. After some investigation it turned out it was an issue with the hosting configuration, rather than a problem with Magento at all. Fortunately … Continue reading →

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New e-commerce website launched for vintage cognac retailer

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

We’ve just wrapped up our latest Magento e-commerce website for Brandyclassics, a retailer of vintage and rare cognac, armagnac and calvados. Whilst they are located in Bradford on Avon, near Bath, they ship their premium brandies to countries across the … Continue reading →

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Creating shipping rules for Magento

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Shopping costs are one of those areas that people tend to ignore a little bit when developing an ecommerce store. Now Magento has some brilliant integrations with the major couriers to let the store calculate costs based on destination, but … Continue reading →

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Sweet-Apple wins new website development for Bristol Copywriters

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

We were recently appointed to redevelop the website of top copywriting agency S!M. Based in Bristol, they specialise in editorial for the Men’s market. We got Indesign files, fonts and a smattering of images and turned the job around in … Continue reading →

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Faster web development with Textmate

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

When you’re a freelance web developer it’s important to be able to work quickly and accurately. If you’re working to a fixed price quote there’s a great motivation to get work done as efficiently as possible. Because of this I’m … Continue reading →

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Configuring APC correctly to optimise Magento performance

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Clive Sweeting

Magento is a wonderful way of quickly and inexpensively creating an ecommerce website, but it does have some major downsides. The complexity of theming it is well know, as is the extremely mediocre performance on typically web hosting. There are … Continue reading →

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