Archive for Web Development

10 reasons to choose Magento for your ecommerce platform

21 Oct, 2011     Posted by Richard     0 Comments

Magento is an open source ecommerce platform that’s rapidly becoming the industry standard. It’s produced by Varien and developed on top of the Zend Framework. 1. Full featured Magento is one of the most full featured ecommerce systems available in both the proprietary and open source markets. It provides everything you need to manage an entire online…

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When an agency should use an internal framework

18 Oct, 2011     Posted by Tom Wade     0 Comments

When starting out, some agencies go about creating their own content management systems in an attempt to offer an in-house solution to their potential clientele. Having fewer clients at the start, there is more free time to work on internal projects such as this. With a custom built framework, a system can be created that is…

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Application of QR Codes in Business

01 Sep, 2011     Posted by Tom Wade     0 Comments

Have you seen those black and white squares cropping up in the corner of adverts, on magazine covers, the web and even on shopping receipts? Those little squares are called QR Codes and give access to predefined pieces of information that companies are now truly beginning to harness to increase sales, track advertising campaigns and…

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Frameworks – Development Efficiency & Quality

12 Aug, 2011     Posted by Richard     0 Comments

The internet is awash with an abundance of web development frameworks, languages and buzz words yet every day more appear. This poses a challenge as keeping abreast of them all, deciding which ones are of use in an digital agency environment and which are superfluous becomes more difficult. One of the biggest developments on the web…

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IE6 – Let’s Play Nicely, Shall We?

04 Jan, 2011     Posted by Marc     0 Comments

It’s well documented that Internet Explorer 6 isn’t exactly the most popular browser in the world. There are even internet campaign sites, such as bringdownie6.com, deathtoie6.com and iedeathmarch.org to name just 3 examples. Whilst these are noble campaigns, and I for one support the abandonment of Internet Explorer 6 (and to a lesser extent all…

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The importance of web accessibility

09 Sep, 2008     Posted by James     0 Comments

Web accessibility is the practice of making the web fully accessible to disabled users. In order to do this they must be able to navigate, understand and interact with the web.

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