Tag Archives: Web design

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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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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Importing Magento product data from .csv files

Posted on November 10, 2010

Magento is a fantastic ecommerce tool, packed full of just about every feature you might possible need – but some tasks are just painful. Importing product data into the catalog is one such thing. Typically you do this via .csv … Continue reading →

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Sweet-Apple wins new website development for Bristol Copywriters

Posted on November 3, 2010

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

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

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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SQL query to automate switching WordPress from a development to a live server

Posted on October 1, 2010

One of the more tedious things about WordPress is the way that it hardcodes complete fully qualified urls into the database, which makes quickly switching from a development server to a live server an irritation. It only takes a few … Continue reading →

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Why OS X sucks as a web development platform

Posted on October 1, 2010

So I thought it was time to end the external summer that is the Apple love in here at Sweet-Apple, and be a little bit controversial. As a whole, OS X makes an excellent web development platform – it’s got … Continue reading →

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Search Engine Optimisation is more than keyword stuffing

Posted on September 21, 2010

I’ve recently started preparing a Search Engine Optimisation report for a client in Bath,and have been trawling through the mass of information that this entails. Whilst there are a huge and changeable number of factors that can affect your website’s position … Continue reading →

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Save money with iStockPhoto credit codes

Posted on August 27, 2010

If like me, you provide web design services to clients in and around Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Bath or Bristol, you’re probably spending a fair amount of time looking for good images to make your web design stand out. You’ll … Continue reading →

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