A guide for eCommerce store images
Preparing product images for an eCommerce store is important business. It can help make or break a web design. Do it well with these helpful tips. Note: we would strongly recommend you hire a good professional photographer for product images but if you can’t here’s some helpful tips. Include all of the product edges All […]
Shaping the User Experience
Keep it Simple Don’t make the user think. A cashpoint machine is the perfect example of a simplistic user experience. Don’t give too many choices – they intimidate and do not invite. Minimise the menu choices – users do not have time to scan a lengthy menu. Recall and Return Be bold and don’t be […]
Marketing tips for your website
You’ve launched your web design – what next? The final web design has been signed off, the launch button pressed and your website is now live but now what? Time to get marketing like a pro. Web Design Marketing You need to start driving user traffic to your website and drawing attention to it. There’s […]
WordPress/Woocommerce: Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.
Development Notes: Woocommerce | Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons. Environment: Wordpress / Woocommerce Problem: Importing product data via CSV results in an error. Importing product data fails. What we tried: Checking the CSV for correct escaping. Importing columns separately to isolate the cause. How we recreated the problem: Insert html […]
Preparing for an eCommerce Website
You’ve decided to move ahead with an eCommerce website so you need to start preparing the content. Nobody knows your products better than you so with a little bit of help you should have no problems. Overall Site Structure The first thing to start thinking about is the overall site structure. An eCommerce website is […]
Our New Cardiff Office
We’re happy to announce that we’ve moved into our new business premises at Castle Court, Cathedral Road. A stone throw away from Cardiff Castle, we’ll be opening our doors and designing our websites in central Cardiff from now on. Prospective and old clients and are more than welcome to come and join us for a […]
What is a website cache?
Website data (or ‘source data’) is often stored and split across multiple sources and database tables. If a website page loads without a cache, many sources might need to be gathered and collated. This can be time consuming and costly for server resource. A website cache is a way of resolving this issue and compiling […]
Install WordPress on a Mac
This video demonstrates how to install Wordpress web design software on your Mac, along with the necessary Mamp web server. It is useful to install Wordpress on your computer for testing and development purposes. Mamp is a free Mac programme that allows you to simulate a server environment on your computer. Download Wordpress Download Mamp
Hosting a Website
Hosting is a loose term used to describe the storing, processing and serving of your website content. It is a critical part of running your website. Hosting is typically measured in the following ways: Processors and Cores (Numerical) Drive Storage (Gigabits) Memory or RAM (Gigabits) Drive Storage The server, used within your hosting, operates in […]
Magento 2.3.4 | the stock item was unable to be saved. Please try again.
Development Notes: Magento 2.3.4 | the stock item was unable to be saved. Please try again. Environment: Magento 2.3.4, Elastic Seach, Disabled MSI. Problem: Editing the stock quantity of some select products would trigger the error: ‘the stock item was unable to be saved. Please try again.’. The change in quantity could not be saved. […]