Breeze is a Content Management Web site tool we’ve developed to produce quality websites for people very quickly which can then be easily maintained by the prospected client. These web sites can be tuned to any particular requirement and can be designed to suit the customer’s company and logos.

• Local Authorities
• Regional Government
• Central Government
• Independent Grant Administrators
• European Sources

BeInspired09 – Well done Business Link!

I thoroughly enjoyed it and not just for the free gifts that were lavished out. This was excellent for local small Business and I hope it becomes a regular occurrence.

The Microsoft talk was mired in technical mishaps but the gist of web/mail/hosting/SaaS convergence was well understood and was on the money.

You could see where the the path was leading. The “traditional” marketeers looked a bit sorry for themselves whereas the web design company talk on SEO was playing to a packed house. Everyone was feverishly scribbling down everything that was said.

I really must finish the SEO and SEM marketing guide that I have been putting together as people obviously love plain English guides to optimising thier website for organic rankings. I guess in these tight times people are less willing to finance Pay Per Click (PPC) ads!

Once you have a stable code base you could consider compressing JS files so that your new customers get your site downloaded even quicker. Our CMS websites rely heavily on AJAX and JavaScript as do all modern interactive websites that have been designed for users to customise and update.

There are a number of ways of enabling various forms of caching and compression but a quick win could be to use a tool like the JavaScript compressor to give your site a little more zing. It will shrink a JS by about half which could be several 100K if you are using a modern library.

• Text INSPIRED to 60300 to get programme updates throughout the day
• Switch on your Bluetooth® and get the mini Event Guide sent to your phone.     (Your number will not be used after the event)

The catchy title “Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper” can be downloaded from the MS download center. I think people will really want to read it more as a SEO guidebook to navigate Bing and try to drive up their rankings.

We use FireFox everyday here at Solvd when doing our multi-browser testing of web based systems and super value Breeze CMS websites. Here is our Top 5 Addins.

Here’s our Top-Of-The-Pops rundown of the Top 5, pick of week, best development tools and addins:

5 ) Adblock Plus

Annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page?

Install Ablock-Plus and you get rid of the ads on a page via a downloadable ruleset or add/remove your own rules easily. Save your bandwidth, save your time and save your screen real estate.

4) Greasemonkey

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org

You can write your own scripts, too. Check out http://wiki.greasespot.net/ – I use it to get rid of the big BBCNews Banner on the BBC news site so it fits on one screen of my netbook.

3) Live HTTP Headers

View HTTP headers of a page and while browsing. Useful when trying to debug caching  and signon issues.

2) Web Developer Toolbar

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. The IE version of this (now built into IE8) is very useful too.

1) Firebug

A lifesaver. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. We mostly use it to tryout on-the-fly CSS changes to see how it would look, without having to touch the files themselves, but this is just the tip of the iceberg for what it can do. Couple it with Y-Slow and you have an incredibly powerful toolset for design, bugfixing and SEO work.

Now that Vista SP2 is being pushed out via automatic updates I will share some lessons to avoid 0xc0190036  error:

Don’t let it install automatically – I shall explain why in  a bit. For now switch automatic updates to “Manual” or “Download Only” so that it does not kick off until you have done the following:

1. Run checkdisk on the system disk
2. Run it again
3. Uninstall your virus scanner
4. Backup
5. Make a restore point
6. Reboot
7. Run the Upgrade

Failure to do this can cause problems if the file system gets corrupted and or isn’t consitent hence the checkdisks.

A great day! Shame they erased the videos 🙁

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