And so the January sales have started, after trawling round shops during Christmas I have decided to look for bargains on-line in the January Sales. Being an avid climber I started looking for the best deals on Climbing Boots and was surprised at the number of website that had very poor landing pages or links to the correct product page.
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Archive for December, 2009
What Should Come First….Web Design or SEO
Posted December 29th, 2009 by John-Paul in Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design
This is a key question in the early planning stages of any website. Depending on who you ask will provide you with very different answers. A web designer will argue in the majority of cases that the design should always come first. In defence of all web designers if a website is not pleasing to the eye and does not capture the visitor’s attention then they are likely to almost instantly bounce off the website without browsing deeper into the content. However an important question to answer at this point is how did the visitor reach the website in the first place? (more…)
CSS 2: Making the Most of Web Development Tools
Posted December 23rd, 2009 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Miscellaneous, Web Design, Web Standards, Website Development
Some time back, my colleague Dan posted a blog about CSS 3, and all of the wonderful new ways web design will change once browsers catch up to the new standards. Many of the new techniques and tools do work in certain browsers now, but what can a web development team do to create pages that have some of the look and feel provided by CSS 3 for browsers like Internet Explorer that don’t support it?
The Future of PHP : A Brief Look at PHP 6
Posted December 21st, 2009 by in Website Development
PHP, or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is one of the most widely used scripting languages. Although originally designed for website development, PHP has evolved massively and can now also be run from the command line interface and can be used in standalone graphical applications.
The current major version is PHP 5.3, released in June 2009. The next milestone in the evolution of PHP is PHP 6, which has been in development for a number of years. PHP 6 will introduce new features, improve existing ones, and remove others.
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Special Characters in HTML with PHP’s htmlspecialchars() Function
Posted December 8th, 2009 by Ben in Content Management, Website Development
Introduction
Certain characters should not be used as plain text in HTML markup but should instead be represented by their respective HTML entities in order to preserve their meanings in web design. When writing HTML this is a straightforward process – you type the HTML entity rather than the special character. But what happens when you have some plain text containing these characters (out of a database, for example) that you need to display? PHP has a function that will take a string and convert special characters to their HTML entities for you.
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