Posted by Mark on January 18th, 2010
As you may know, the continued prevalence of Internet Explorer 6 is a constant thorn in the side of many a web developer – why? Because compared to newer browsers, such as newer versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and indeed Internet Explorer (there are others, but these are common), it’s just broken. To fully target IE 6, we have to spend time, and clients money coding a scaled back, weaker, less sophisticated version of the site.
This, the more informed web user will already know, but I take this opportunity to give users of the aforesaid long-in-the-tooth browser even more reason to cease using it.
From our favourite news site: Exploit code for potent IE zero-day bug goes wild
This article outlines the existence of yet another IE vulnerability, that can hack systems containing IE 6, and IE 7, and it can crash IE 8. I’m sure that there will be quick fixes and workarounds available for IE 7, and IE 8, but will Microsoft put out an update for IE 6, which is a system that they haven’t supported for years?
I’d suggest that Internet users just upgrade now, with a money is no object frame of mind. What price can we put on safety? But given that most alternative browsers are free, even money shouldn’t be an issue.
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Posted by Mark on December 17th, 2009
Boho Screenshot
This week we launched Boho Weddings and Events, a web site for a local Wedding and Event Planner. The site can be seen at http://www.bohoweddingsandevents.com.
This project was highly client-led, and Kelly has received a web design that’s exactly what she wanted. The logo and website design was produced by Nigel Houghton at Nhgrafiks (http://www.nhgrafiks.co.uk).
The website works on all newer browsers, and is usable on Internet explorer 6 despite us scaling back on visual effects due to the weakness of this old browser.
I’ll once again take the opportunity to point out that people using Internet Explorer 6 (or earlier) should get their hands on a newer, more capable web browser, there are plenty around, and they won’t regret it!
Tags: new website launch, portfolio, wedding planner, weddings and events
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Posted by Darren on November 3rd, 2009
The report generator has been enhanced to provide reports in tab-separated-values (TSV) format. This is useful for exporting product data to Amazon.
The standard reports now included with Apex CMS 4.5 Ecommerce are:
- All orders, excluding cancelled orders
- Bottom sellers last 30 days
- Low Stock (1 – 5 Items)
- Outstanding order requirements (firm+checkout)
- Products with main special offer flag ticked
- Products with no barcode (except hidden)
- Products with no price (retail price plan)
- Products with quantity breaks (retail price plan)
- Promotional code usage
- Promotional code usage – details
- SagePay Releases by Order No
- SagePay Releases by Release Date
- Referring sites for orders
- Referring sites for orders (basket details)
- Referring sites for orders (referrer totals)
- Secure Downloads: Download details (doc order)
- Secure Downloads: Download details (user order)
- Secure Downloads: Summary by user (all time)
- Secure Downloads: Summary by user (date range)
- Secure Downloads: Summary of downloads
- Top sellers by turnover (top 200 products)
- Top sellers by quantity (top 200 products)
- Users accepting email contact
- Zero Stock
Existing Apex CMS users also use custom reports for exporting product data to leading shopping sites such as Amazon, Google Products and Play.com.
Applies to: Apex CMS 4.5
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Posted by Mark on October 28th, 2009
Wizzy Design is now doing the SEO work for Doors and Floors Galore. Doors and Floors Galore import and stock many types of Doors including Interior Doors, Exterior Doors, Oak Doors, French Doors and Patio Doors. They also have a page listing their New Editions.
We have suggested several alterations be made to the site, and have had immediate success with their Fire Doors section. Effectively we’re targeting the terms “Fire Doors” and “Glazed Fire Doors” for them, and one of the first jobs was to label each fire door with the term “Fire Door”, which was simple enough. A week later we were informed by the client that we’d achieved a page 1 result for it, nice! We hadn’t really started with the SEO yet!
It’s too early to tell what the level of success of our first work proposal is, but I’ll publish all successes and surprises here. Certainly we expect to secure some good results for Doors and Floors.
PS) Don’t forget to read about our Digital Marketing and Zenith SEO Service.
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Posted by Darren on October 5th, 2009
Two small enhancements were made to the report generator:
- Spreadsheet style reports (downloadable CSV files) can be downloaded without viewing the on-screen report first, which could take some time for large or complex reports.
- Preparation time for large on-screen reports has been significantly reduced, with the start of the report being viewable while the rest is being generated.
Applies to: Apex CMS 4.5
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Posted by Darren on October 5th, 2009
Orange Arrow are specialists in enclosed vehicle transportation for prestige, classic and performance cars.
The Orange Arrow website is powered by Apex CMS Core, and allows them to update their own image gallery, where you can see some of the gorgeous cars they work with. Wizzy Design provided graphic design for the website, in addition to CMS integration, basic SEO and W3C standards validation.
Tags: apex, content management system, Web Design
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