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No Support For CMYK JPGs in Internet Explorer

Aug 262011

I came across something today that I’ve never encountered before. Whilst updating one of our company sites, I added some new product shots given to us by one of our suppliers on a cd.

After building the site and regularly checking the result in Firefox/Opera, I decided to have a final check with IE 6-8. To my surprise, some of the product images were not displaying at all!

If you search the web, this is a common problem (usually incorrect file paths, uppercase/lowercase issues on a linux server etc) but I’d already checked the usual supects. I was completely baffled!

Why Your Business Needs A Website

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Jan 282008

You might be wondering what the real benefits of a website are for your business.

Admittedly, in the past, a poorly designed website which was never updated was unlikely to generate much, if any, extra interest in your small business.

These days however, the internet represents a fantastic opportunity for your company. You don’t need to sell directly online to make it worth your while; thousands of service orientated businesses have an online presence too. Continue reading »

Basic SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)

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Jan 182008

In this article, I’ll run through some fairly standard forms of SEO that will help your site acheive better organic results in the search engines.

Meta Tags.
<meta> These sit inside the <head> tags at the top of your web page. They aren’t visible to people viewing your site but they are picked up by the search engines. There are lots of meta tags that can be put on your web page but the most important one is Description. Continue reading »