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We helped launch the Essential Reading Plus e-commerce website today. There’s nearly 500 titles including best selling educational author Bill Rogers. Designed by Hughes Design, built by DJA Online Services. Take a look now at www.essentialreadingplus.co.uk
Wed, December 8 2010 » e-commerce, Web developing » No Comments
I’ve spent the afternoon looking for an answer to how to create an RSS feed from a Joomla category. Almost every search yields the same answer, use a feed aggregator / reader to load the feed onto your site. No, I want it the other way round. Feed results via RSS from a category on [...]
Wed, December 8 2010 » Joomla, Web developing » No Comments
It might seem like a shameless plug, but I’d like to think that if my client Wholly Goat can get themselves featured in The Guardian, then the least I can do is make sure that other people know about it too. So in their Christmas Gift Ideas section you too can see an example of [...]
Sat, November 20 2010 » Promotion, Web developing » No Comments
OK – so I am updating text in a page by using jQuery cycle. There’s 3 divs contained within another div that show one after another as per the jquery settings. Anyway, the problem was, as the text updated the descending characters disappeared, but only in Internet Explorer. I found a few references, especially this [...]
Thu, November 18 2010 » ajax / javascript, Web developing » No Comments
DJA has played a big part in the build and launch of the new website for a company called Wholly Goat who launched their product range this week. The site at www.whollygoat.com features lots of high quality photography by Amy Murrell and Nathan Pask which can be seen from the front page through to the [...]
Wed, September 22 2010 » Promotion, Web developing » No Comments
It never hurts to read a manual, an FAQ or a Help page now and again. Whatever you know about a piece of software you’d be surprised what you can find out by going back over some instructions, maybe with a specific task in mind. My task was to create a number of templates for [...]
Thu, August 5 2010 » Web developing, Wordpress » No Comments
I’ve been working with several websites that have upgraded to WordPress 3.o and I’m loving the menu options that you get now. As with every bit of software, what is difficult in one version quickly improves in subsequent versions. I started using Flash when it was at version 3 and though I still use Flash [...]
Sun, July 25 2010 » software, Web developing, Wordpress » No Comments
I got to the Mozilla Add-Ons workshop at the Hub in Kings Cross, London. Great venue, free bar, plenty of friendly developers. I’m not developing Add-Ons at the moment but I am interested in Mozilla’s view that everyone wants a different experience when using the internet. So having Add-Ons that will provide those experiences, whether [...]
Thu, July 1 2010 » software, technology, Web developing » No Comments
I’ve been working hard at building the web development business, first as a freelance and now with my company, DJA Online Services. There’s many ways to get people to find your business: tell all your friends, get business cards made, create a website, spend money on advertising and very importantly go and find people who [...]
Wed, June 2 2010 » Promotion, Web developing » No Comments
This has been reported elsewhere, but it’s useful to bear in mind. ExtJS has a blog entry on how people are confusing the upcoming HTML5 spec with things like CSS3. And they say this is the same confusion that brought the overuse of AJAX and Web2.0 terms. The spec is just a “broad collection of [...]
Fri, May 28 2010 » ajax / javascript, technology, Web developing » No Comments
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