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Faster web development with Textmate

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

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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WordPress site developed for Bath publisher

We’ve recently been working for Spaced, a design and publishing agency near Bath, doing the web development for their latest project. They’re publishing a graphic novel, Yuri’s Day : The Road to the Stars to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri … Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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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Using Subversion with Netbeans

We’ve all done it. Spent hours working on some changes to a website, then saved over the top of them and not been able to undo far enough to get back to where we were. It’s a sickening feeling. However … Continue reading

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Bulk updating prices in Magento e-Commerce

Keeping your product catalog up-to-date is always a bit of a pain. Whilst Magento provides you with a very sophisticated multiple product/attribute editing system, you can only do this on 200 products at most. So what do you do if … Continue reading

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Using Twitter and Facebook for Search Engine Optimisation

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last couple of years, you’ve probably heard of Twitter. If you’re a business in Bath or Bristol and have had any contact with a web design or web development company they’ve … Continue reading

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