PHP Summary of HTML String

When building database driven applications you often want to display leading text or a summary of another pages content on, say, an index or category page. This is often the case with Content Management Systems, blogs and article websites. When doing this recently on a small application I was building I simple used: $descriptionSmall = [...]

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Optimise your Meta Descriptions

A Meta Description is something that every web page should have. You can see the Meta Description of any page by viewing the source code. In the top browser menu click on ‘view’ then select either ‘view souce’ or ‘view page source’ depending whether you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox. This will bring up [...]

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How to find a web designer

Finding a web designer requires quite bit of though and research. Don’t just pick up the Yellow Pages and call the first first one you come across. First thing you should do is talk to like minded people, friends or business contacts about their experiences with web design companies. Once you have gathered a few [...]

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The best hosted, on demand CRM applications

Hosted, on-demand or web based CRM service provides a simpler, faster and cost-effective software for customer relationship management for businesses. Here are some of the best… Sales Force Basic usage starts at £17/user/month with a 14 day free trial. Infusionsoft Basic usage starts at $199/Month with a 15 free trial. Includes CRM, Email Marketing and [...]

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Mailchimp and wordpress

The online email marketing tool Mailchimp has just got even better. It now integrates with WordPress, Twitter and Salesforce so you can now easily build you mailing lists automatically. MailChimp allows user to build mailing lists, design email campaigns, send and analyse the results from on online console. OK so there lots of products that [...]

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Which is the best CMS

I’m going to add my two pennies worth to this ongoing debate and I will try and update as often as I have new information. CMS or content management system are software systems that allow website owners to update the content of their website without needing any technical knowledge. I am going to try and [...]

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SaaS Software as a service

The way businesses are using business critical software seems to be changing rapidly. The trend see them moving more and more towards Software as a service (SaaS) applications. What is basically means is that instead of buying a software license outright it is licensed on a demand basis usually online. The most common SaaS applications [...]

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Calls to action

What do you want a visitor to your website to do? This is the called the ‘most wanted response’ (MWR). We see it all the time on ecommerce sites, with ‘buy now’ and ‘add to basket’ everywhere your look. On brochure/service based sites, however, calls to action are often over looked. This may not be [...]

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SEO and title tags

One of the most important things you can do to make your website more visible on the web is make use of the title tag! For any web professionals reading this they know what I mean by title tags, but for those of you who don’t I’m referring to part of the code in a [...]

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