Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

Important WordPress security update 3.0.4

Posted on December 30, 2010

Looks like the Christmas spirit of goodwill to all men lasted a couple of days before the nasty hackers got back to work. There’s an important security update to WordPress just been released, v3.0.4. Anyone running a WordPress 3 blog … Continue reading →

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Stop iPhones overriding small font sizes in email marketing campaigns…

Posted on December 24, 2010

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

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

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

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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Repairing iPhone 4 damaged screens in Bath, Bristol and Wiltshire…

Posted on December 6, 2010

The iPhone 4 is a lovely device, but that steel frame and the double glass front does make it more prone to suffering from shattered glass on the front digitizer. Until recently the cost of the parts was prohibitively expensive; … Continue reading →

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Fixing Problems sending emails via iPhone and Orange

Posted on November 30, 2010

I was with a customer in Bradford on Avon installing their new iMac and they happened to mention to me that they couldn’t send email through their iPhone. They were on Orange. Orange tech support had failed to resolve it, … Continue reading →

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Fixing problems with Magento creating empty invoice PDFs

Posted on November 30, 2010

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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Apple brings the “Black Friday” sales to the UK

Posted on November 25, 2010

America has a tradition of massive sales on the Friday around Thanksgiving, called “Black Friday”. It’s frequently a bigger present buying period that Christmas, and Apple typically knock off around 7% of the standard retail price. Well the good news … Continue reading →

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New e-commerce website launched for vintage cognac retailer

Posted on November 21, 2010

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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