Design & Development Blog

Funding available for E-Commerce Websites North East

Support has been available for business who trade with other businesses ( B2B ) for  e-commerce websites by NBSL, up to 40% for projects up to £3,500

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Roman at Home Launches New Website

Luxury online homewares retailer, Roman at Home, have re-launched their website (www.romanathome.com) with a totally revamped look that also incorporates new features designed to make the website completely user friendly and easy to navigate.

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How website CMS users handle the VAT rise

First of all, Happy New Year to you all. 2011 has many challenges ahead - the first one is the change of VAT Tax rate from 17.5% to 20%.  Which is nice.  But spare a thought for the poor people who have to update all their prices online.  Do they take a hit and lose 2.5% per sale or update every product manually.  There is a third way...

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Darts Performance Centre - Latest Go-Live

My latest project to be made live is Darts Performance Center - www.dartsperformancecentre.com.

DPC is a web-based membership portal aimed at giving darts players advice and tools to improve their game.  Those who know me will know how keen I am on the sport of darts, so this was a sort of dream project.

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Latest Freelance PHP Work - Update

Been a while since I updated you on my latest freelance work, so here it is.

  • A very in-depth voucher system, conversion routine and other modifications for an e-commerce website
  • SEO work on a range of new and existing client websites
  • An online newspaper website, which will be based on Wordpress with custom plugins
  • Redesign of an Estate Agency website including easy search functionality
  • Update to expand an online food website to be multi-regional including work with the Google Maps API
  • Expansion of an existing CMS to generate and print customer letters automatically and create PDF files
  • Hosting and maintenance of a golfing website

I hope to have some URLs to add to my portfolio in the coming weeks to present the new development work being finalised at my office here in Amble, Northumberland.