http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog Website design Blog Mon, 12 May 2008 08:49:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every once in a while I get to work with some absolutely delightful people and this is one of those occasions. Panthers are a long established Bristol kickboxing club who wanted a website to promote their club and communicate with their members via the internet. They approached several designers, ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/kickboxing-website-launched/ Without much effort this page should reach the number one slot on google for crowdedalliances. So the question is how did that happen. Easy really, there are no other listings for crowdedalliances! The point is that if there is no competition and, more importantly, no-one searches for crowdedalliances therefore it is ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/ranking-high-easy-with-crowdedalliances/ How does it work? The following is a little simplistic but in essence shows how hosting works. Your website will be held on a machine with a fast connection to the internet. That machine is identified through it's ip address. When you type in to your browser www.yourdomain.com the protocol ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/how-does-web-hosting-work-and-what-does-it-give-you/ It's a confusing business this, when you're thinking of having a website for the first time. There are so many things you've never heard of and a Domain Name is just one of them. In this post I'll try to explain what it is, what it does and how, ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/domain-name-what-is-that/ It's that time of year again when I can get at the imaker site and give it a bit of a wash and brush-up. This time however I thought it needed a complete makeover as since it had been live it had become too busy, had many additions and deletions ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/new-site-and-new-logo/ We are delighted to offer a new service, an extremely cost effective and affordable web design service utilising Wordpress as a cms. Our new dedicated website www.webdesignfirst.co.uk will offer the service with an introductory offer of a site + .co.uk domain name + a years hosting. This new service will provide a ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/affordable-web-sites-using-wordpress/ Content management with joomla is a bit of a new venture for iMaker but we have completed a web site using this for a Psychology tutor in Bristol. Though the layout of the site is pretty familiar the client is very happy with the finished result and it was a low ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/joomla-getting-to-grips-with-cms/ I must have had my head in the sand to have missed a great post on this subject from Megan McDermott. For a while I've been looking at my blog title tags and thinking there must be a better way. Then Megan's post just explained it all simply and elegantly. Thanks very ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/fixing-wordpress-title-tags/ Just a quick heads up that we now have a web jargon buster / glossary of web design terms page now on the main site. Inevitably it'll be added to, these things are never finished. Hope it proves useful. http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/jargon-buster/ Voip has interested me from both a technical and cost saving perspective. I have tinkered with it but have not been overly impressed with the quality or ease of use until recently. I tried a few providers using a "soft phone" and headset both paid and unpaid through my desktop ... http://www.imaker.co.uk/blog/index.php/voice-over-ip/