A web site has been launched for new client Coach House Flowers. Coach House is a florist's shop in Penrith, Cumbria. The web site emphasises wedding flowers, corsages and buttonholes and also promotes a series of flower arranging workshops organise...

An e-commerce site has just been launched for new client The Cashmere Garden. The business sells cashmere cardigans, scarves, rugs and throws, and an interesting selection of gifts and items for the home. This is a new brand for an existing business...

In a couple of conversations with clients recently, the issue of personalised search has cropped up. One client liked to check how well their web site was performing in search engines simply by running a Google search from their own computer. The ot...

Congratulations to Story Homes, the housebuilder based in Carlisle, who last week won a prestigious "Developer of the Year" award (2011). This is a fantastic achievement and must be a real morale-booster in what is a tough market currently for the h...

It's interesting how issues will come along like buses – you're blissfully unaware of an issue then it will come along a couple of times in rapid succession. Although I have helped lots of clients with domain issues, these issues have mainly been ab...

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been the web browser that refuses to die. For years this browser has been the bane of many web developers' lives. It has lots of bugs and quirks that make building web sites that bit more difficult. IE6 was launched in ...

Recent developments including the increased penetration of Apple iPhones and iPads and the gradual introduction of HTML5 affect the way you might use video on the web. Video is increasingly being used on web sites as a means of delivering product il...

A client would be really upset if their domain name expired. But how would this client feel if their brother was their web designer? Yes – my own brother experienced the pain and hassle of allowing his own domain name to expire! He was embarrassed ...

I had an interesting experience recently when developing a new site for a client. The client had an existing web site hosted with a budget web host. The new site uses the Joomla content management system, and so required a MySQL database to be set u...

We're all looking for value for money these days. If you aren't already using open source and online applications, now might be the time to look again. Open source software is now part of the mainstream. Open source generally means that the applicat...