We’ve actually been working with Wordpress since 2004, and Magento since 2008, however we have been specifically asked for these products by new and existing customers.
If you would a demo of these products, or have a question how these web applications can help your business then contact us .
As you probably know by now, Google is Using site speed in web search ranking. And I couldn’t agree more: speed is important for your site, and not only for Google but mainly for the User Experience (UX) on your site. Research from Google and Microsoft shows that slower websites convert less and that the effect of a slow website is lasting.
Here are two blog posts from Magento colleagues who have found various ways of speeding up the open source ecommerce platform:
If you are just setting up as a developer or need to know what testing suite to set up in your office before you send your client their completed web site.
Here’s the definite list for bulletproof browser testing suite:
Cloud services
Online: Browsershots – Cost – free – all browsers current and past versions.
Local installs on a Mac
Mac OS X: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino
MacOS X using Parallels with installs of Linux, Win XP and Win Vista operating systems:
Windows XP: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
Windows 7: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
Windows Vista: (if required)
Linux: Seamonkey, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari
As part of your quality assurance you should include which browsers and operating systems you are testing on in your client contract. Any backward compatible coding for IE6 or below should be added at extra cost if required.
With existing sites, if you look at Google analytics data, you will be able to see the share of users using each browser and make the best judgement from there, in terms of which old browsers to support.
If the results of your CSS designs are inspirational, don’t let speed slow down people seeing your work!
If you notice your style sheets are getting bloated, it may be time to stop and give it the code a good make over. With the following steps and your style sheet will be in shape in no time. Fortunately, there are some great online tools out there for cleaning and optimising your CSS for you.
Web page analyser:
Web page analyser – Find out how long your external CSS, JS files take to load
Find redundant CSS code:
dustmeselectors – Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.
Over the last few years I have used a variety of agents and sites to find work. Here are my selection of tried and tested, and more importantly – trusted, ways to get work in the creative and digital industry in the UK.
In January 2000, odds are that you didn’t own an MP3 player, digital camera or even a cellphone.
And the iPhone might as well have been a cardboard prop off Star Trek. But today, the iPhone is not only dully common, it’s the prototype on which most modern smartphones have been built.
But as of 2007, U.S. households were more likely to be use a cell than a land line.
Here we are about to start a new decade, and the predictions are almost a sci-fi cliché at this point, but by the end of the next decade, it’s easy to imagine a contact lens, like any other contact, that could fit on your eye to provide a heads-up display (HUD) over much of your life experience.
For computers in the next decade, the mobile OS will be indistinguishable from the desktop OS. Portable computers will be but aesthetic shells for your omnipresent connection to information and processing power in the cloud.
Take a look at our pages that summaries our new offerings for customers.
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