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Hello all! Just a note to say that we’re moving offices at the end of July. We’ll be keeping the same registered company address (courtesy of our lovely landlord) but we’ll be moving into new offices...
July, 21 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
As we’ve mentioned before, we like to share bits of info we’ve found out in our web travels! You may have wondered.. like we did.. how do I get a custom Facebook URL? Like http://www.facebook.com/acurasltd for example! The answer is simple. Just visit http://www.facebook.com/username/ while logged in to Facebook and you can set it here. Be careful though, as you can’t change it once you’ve set it. Enjoy!
July, 20 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
The W3C site itself provides a nice run-down of why Standards Compliant Coding is beneficial: http://validator.w3.org/docs/why.html I’ve endeavoured to distil the main reasons below for easy reading: 1. Standards compliant coding makes bug fixing easier. If you know the code validates, you’ve made life a lot easier for yourself (as a developer) 2. An easy “future-proof quality check”. Standards compliant code will be supported by future web platforms 3. Compliant code is easier to maintain, which...
July, 19 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Check out our new video advert for our web design, hosting and SEO services for Yell.com See it here: We’d also like to take this opportunity to remind you of our Facebook and Twitter pages in case you’d like to connect with us! Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/acurasltd Twitter: http://twitter.com/acuras_web Look forward to speaking with you!
July, 16 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
We like to share our experiences for the good of the community and hopefully this post will help someone out in the future… and save some stress while we’re at it. Our problem was this.. a new web hosting client wanted to move their SlideShowPro site over to our hosting platform. We use Heart Internet, (among others) to host some of our clients’ sites so we thought we’d do the same for this new client. Server move seemed to go ok, all files transferred fine, database transferred and connected fine.. DNS was switched...
July, 14 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Meta tags are an important part of HTML documents which inform both search engines and visitors about the topic of the page being visited. The two most important Meta tags are the
July, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Magento - shared hosting often not good enough! Last weekend we had to move a client’s Magento e-commerce shop from a shared hosting package to a better VPS hosting solution as the shared server simply wasn’t coping. Often there would be “Internal Server Error” messages when trying to login to the Magento admin area and the server was struggling to perform acceptably. This is made even more important by the fact that site speed does matter (Reference: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site...
July, 7 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
We are offering all readers of our Web Design Blog a free Search Engine Rankings Report. Just give us up to 20 keywords or keyphrases and the URL of your current website and we’ll run a Search Engine Rankings Report for you absolutely free. Our report is an automated report which connects to the top search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo) and checks the current SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for your website URL or any pages within your website that rank for the specified keyphrases. As Wikipedia states, “A...
July, 6 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Some of our recent bookmarks on SEO, Google, Email and more… Misconceptions About Search Engine Optimization Client Spotlight: Manchester Based Fish and Chips Shop What's needed for a successful SEO / SEM campaign? - Web Design High Wycombe, SEO & Marketing SEO Tips | How Abbreviations Affect SEO and SEO Tips On How To Optimise Towards Abbreviations Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using site speed in web search ranking Setup Google Mail in Outlook 2007 - Gmail Help Flickr: acuras' Photostream Follow our...
July, 2 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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