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Are you ready for more internet growth?

In 2016 12.4% of the UK's GDP will come from the internet. The internet is becoming critical to the majority of the UK population; in fact research by Boston Consulting Group showed that 91% of people in the UK would rather give-up fast food for one year than give-up their internet. At the heart of this importance and business on the internet is your website. For example 83% of print advertisements now contain a website address. Are you satisfied and content that your online strategy and your website are ready to take full advantage of the exciting growth of business on the internet? Are you ready?

Do you know who is visiting your website? Do you use web registration forms?

Web analytics, such as Google analytics, provides a view of who is visiting websites and how they are finding and navigating to those websites. Web registration forms help capture information about those who are visiting and viewing content on websites.

A quick guide no how to write javaScript classes in order to write object oriented javaScript / jQuery code with a constructor etc. Other useful coding conventions are outlined too.

Out with the old, in with the new!

We are very proud to launch our new website.

If upgrading to the latest version of Jquery 1.9.x you may find that a lot of your jquery code is now broken. Here is a short post on what to do.

Using the htaccess file to add www. to the URL path of all pages.

Fix Filezilla / FTP adding line breaks Issue

Uploaded files contain lots of extra line breaks. How to fix the problem in FileZilla.

Jquery Ajax Cross-site error

How to get jQuery AJAX cross-site calls working correctly. It assumes that you operate the server that the cross-site AJAX code is communicating to.

A Basic Web Technology Overview (Web App Development Explained)

Web Development Overview: What web technologies exist, and how do they fit together? How clients and servers interact. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs explained, and more. Learn the basics.

Fix Wordpress pagination if it is not working, specifically that links redirect to the home page theme. We did a lot of research into installed modules, etc. and found that the reason that pagination was not working had to be something related to the Wordpress core.

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