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SlideShowPro not compatible with Heart Internet shared hosting firewall settings for cURL
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
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SEO Basics - the Importance of Meta Tags
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
tag and the description meta tag. The Title tag Your website will benefit most from having unique titles for each page. The <title> tag must be placed within the of the document. Good practices for page title tags, as recommended by the Google Search Engine Optimisation Starter Guide (PDF): · Accurately describe the page's content... July, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Magento E-commerce Server Move - shared hosting often not good enough
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
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Free Search Engine Rankings Reports - Special Offer!
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
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Our Recently Bookmarked Links (June 2010)
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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Client Spotlight: Manchester Based Fish and Chips Shop
We’re happy to announce the launch of the new website for Leo’s Fish Bar, a fish and chips restaurant and takeaway based in Manchester City Centre. The website was designed from scratch by Acuras and built with our custom CMS powering the website’s content. We also setup a Blog for Leos Fish Bar on Posterous at http://blog.leosfishbar.com and have been commissioned to manage the Search Engine Optimisation and Social Media Optimisation for the site. From Fish & Chips, Pies, Pizzas, Fried Chicken, Kebabs to...
June, 30 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Choose your SEO / SEM company wisely
We’re starting this week off with an article about being selective when choosing a company to undertake Search Engine Optimisation for your website. Selecting a company to do any work for you can be a challenge. You need to decide whether you think you can trust them, whether they will give you value for money (not just if they are “cheap”!) and if they will deliver what you want. When it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) there are lots of companies out there offering services...
June, 28 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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Miles More Styles E-Commerce shop launch
Well we’ve been busy! We’re very happy to announce today the launch of a new ladies fashion website called Miles More Styles. The website has been developed in collaboration with Sue Giles, a local Graphic Designer and we are all very pleased with the results! The site is powered by the Magento E-commerce package. Miles More Styles offers “a fantastic choice of flattering, good-looking clothes exclusively for older women” including shrugs, summer cover ups, knitwear, ethnic tops, dresses, kaftans, skirts and womens...
June, 25 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
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Putting your business card online - just an idea!
Ever thought your business card deserved a bit more exposure? The poor things normally end up in bins anway! Well here’s an idea… putting your business card online like I’ve done here for myself: Jon...
June, 18 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
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