It seems there is battle happening inside my iMac between Adobe Fireworks and Snow Leopard OS! Initially I presumed it was probably my lack of re-booting/updating that was causing the problem so I carried out the necessary updates (480mb!) for my CS4 design package, re-booted the iMac and hoped for the best.
I though as I had dismissed 480mb worth of updates for a while that was the most likely thing to be at the root of this problem. Wrong! Fireworks still hangs when...
Backups are essential for anything to do with computers and having a WordPress website is no different at all. You learn the hard way with backups, and I learnt the hard way about 4 years ago, when due to the lack of having a backup I lost my entire recipe collection. So here is a quick video tutorial on how to backup your WordPress website.
There are two main things that should be backed up when backing up a WordPress powered website. The first and perhaps most important...
Social media is all around us at the moment with literally millions of users using sites such as Facebook and Twitter everyday it is becoming more and more essential that your website can integrate with your Twitter and Facebook accounts. This article will explain how this can be done, to help drive traffic to your website.
Facebook has around 300 million users. Twitter use is growing at over 1000%. It seems pretty clear that in order to drive traffic to your site it...
After a while on a reseller account that has served us well, we have decided to make the move to a Virtual Private Server rather than a shared server. This should help customers in making a more reliable, robust and customisable experience.
So what is a VPS? As I have mentioned a VPS is a ‘Virtual Private Server’. The difference between this and a shared hosting solution is that we can make custom changes to each of the servers that we have in order to optimise...
For a long time we have used WordPress for creating a number of websites, many of which can be seen in our portfolio. However WordPress comes in 2 flavours (at the moment anyway). WordPress MU is a multiuser version of WordPress that allows for any number of ‘blogs’ or sites to be created with one install. Therefore we thought that it was time to take a look at WordPress MU and find out the benefits.
Firstly the install. It is almost as easy as WordPress...
As web designers we love creating websites (of course!) and we create a wide variety of sites for a wide variety of clients. This is what we love about web design, meeting different people from different walks of life doing different things. The web really does bring people together in that way. However it is always nice to get some recognition for the work you do.
Over the last year we are proud to have had 2 of the websites that we have produced for clients showcased...
Data Plus Insight is a website that offers PowerPoint chart downloads. The client had already got their design for the site ready and required WordPress coding services from Equal Design.
After nearly 12 months of our latest site we decided that it was time to have a change. The problem was, is that we have received some good feedback on our site design and people seem to like it. Therefore instead of a completely new look, we decided to create a revised design based around the ideas of the original site design.
We have tried to freshen up the site whilst at the same time keeping it simple, fresh and clean. I suppose that one of the big differences that...
Sovereign Blinds are a family run blind company based in both Leyland and Chorley in the north west of England. They specialise in the manufacture and sale of quality blinds. They came to Equal Design requiring a comprehensive update to their existing site in order to promote their business and the products that they offer to customer.
Equal Design designed a new site for Sovereign blinds to bring the site up to date to represent the quality products and services provided...
118 Menu are a company that provide an online ordering service from takeaway restaurants. They already had a site running but they wanted a blog that would help them develop their social media aspects of the business.
Equal Design created a blog matching the current design of their website and integrated social media content into the blog such as Twitter and Facebook.