Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Announcement: PHP 5 is becoming our default version
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 12, 2010
- Help & Advice , Web Design , Web Hosting , eXtend
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We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is [...]
Read moreOur top free Twitter resources (Part 1)
- Posted by Craig Grant on July 01, 2010
- General , Help & Advice , How To... , Promoting your site , Search Engine Tips , Web Design , Your Business
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Twitter in itself can be very overwhelming, and that’s without worrying what tools and resources you need to manage your account properly. So we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of our favourites. Twitter for Beginners We’ve divided our list into two parts; this one for fledgling tweeters and one for [...]
Read more7 quick tips to instantly speed up your WordPress site
- Posted by Craig Grant on May 31, 2010
- Help & Advice , Promoting your site , Search Engine Tips , Web Design , Web Hosting
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A couple of weeks ago we looked in to Google’s announcement that they are using a page’s load time to rank a sample of sites (1%) and what it meant for your website (you can read that post here). One of the most resource hungry ways of creating a website is WordPress. With its multiple [...]
Read moreThe new domain, just for mobiles. Available Now Here!
- Posted by Craig Grant on March 11, 2010
- CG Computers , Web Design , Web Hosting , Your Business
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Although mobile devices and the networks that support them are improving, it seems like the mobile Web is almost a secret these days because sites can be hard to locate and have little content when you find them. And yet, with four mobile phones purchased for every one personal computer, there’s a world of people [...]
Read moreFirewall Exploitation Using Web Page
- Posted by Craig Grant on January 08, 2010
- Web Design
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A hardware firewall can be penetrated by a javascript embedded in a webpage. Samy Kamkar has demonstrated a way on how to do it. “What this means is I can penetrate their firewall/router and connect to the port that I specified, even though the firewall should never forward that port. This defeats that security by [...]
Read more43 High Quality Tutorial Sites to Start Learning Web Design
- Posted by Craig Grant on December 28, 2009
- Web Design
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If you want to start learning web design and development any time soon, you can start from these high quality resources. Most of the sites have been around for a while, have accumulated numerous tutorials on various topics on HTML/CSS, Photoshop, PHP/MySQL, Javascript/jQuery/AJAX and Flash. Start learning or polishing off your design skills now 1. [...]
Read moreCreating a website with zero design or coding skills
- Posted by Craig Grant on December 24, 2009
- Web Design , Web Hosting , Your Business
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Creating an all singing all dancing website from scratch all by yourself is a big task, especially with all the different skills required (e.g. CSS/ HTML, PhotoShop, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript etc). Even though I work in the web hosting industry I have practically no knowledge of server side scripting (PHP, Perl, Ruby etc), no understanding [...]
Read more9 great iPhone apps to manage your website on the go
- Posted by Craig Grant on November 06, 2009
- Web Design
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Whatever your thoughts about the iPhone there is no denying it represents a step change in the way we access data and spend our time on the move and thanks mainly to the ever growing app store we have immediate access to all aspects of our digital life. The success of the app store is [...]
Read moreTop 10 Joomla extensions you can’t live without!
- Posted by Craig Grant on October 02, 2009
- Web Design , Your Business
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If you have an idea for an article and would like to see it published on our blog and linked to in our monthly newsletter get in touch with us at marketing@cg-computers.co.uk Joomla is a content management system (CMS) which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications and thanks to it’s easy [...]
Read moreTop 25 WordPress plug-ins to add to your blog
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 09, 2009
- Web Design
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There are literally hundreds of plug-ins for WordPress to choose from, and going through them all to pick out the most useful ones can be quite a task. Well, we’ve done it for you! Below are the WordPress plug-ins that could provide your WordPress powered website with the added functionality to make it even better. [...]
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