The Explosion Of The Mobile Web The mobile web is growing at a phenomenal pace, and is forecast to overtake the desktop web in 2014. In other words, more users will access the Internet using a mobile phone rather than a PC for the first time. Approximately 900 million people currently access the web with mobile phones, compared to 1.4 …
Custom Post Types in WordPress
What are Custom Post Types? Custom Post Post Types or Custom Posts are a great innovation in WordPress that extend the standard functionality of ‘posts’ beyond that of the normal blogging sphere to make WordPress more of a fully fledged Content Management System (CMS). For example in the past where you may have used a custom query (such as page …
Google Coming to Old Street
We’re thrilled to hear of the news yesterday (28-Sept-2011) that Google is coming to Old Street – putting them only a few streets from our own office on Curtain Road in Shoreditch! The new Google offices located near the Old Street roundabout (aka Silicon Roundabout) are being heralded as a ‘Start up Centre’ and will host training workshops, product demonstrations …
App Development in the UK with AppDevUK
The site for App Development in the UK has recently launched and we’re proud to say that Slick Media are playing a central role in it’s creation and direction. The site is www.AppDevUK.com and focuses on:- Apple iOS App Development Windows / Windows 7 App Development Google Android App Development Blackberry App Development More general discussion on App Development:- …
Server Upgrade
Server Upgrade: Support Announcement We are very happy to announce that we have upgraded our server to significantly further enhance speed and performance. As such you may have to make a couple of very slight changes to your email setup. These are as follows:- 1. Accept mail server certificate host4dev.com The mail server is now under ‘host4dev.com’ and so you …
Underlining Links with Cufon
If you aren’t familiar with Cufon then it’s a method of adding real fonts on your web site via Canvas and VML – no Flash or images are required which makes this a beautiful font replacement option for your web site. If you are looking to simply add Cufon to your web site then get your original font ready and …
Rounded Corners CSS
For those of you folks wanting to add rounded corners to HTML elements i.e. DIVs then you’ll probably already know that Webkit Browsers (Safari) and Moz Browsers (Firefox) already handle this with ease like so:- CSS: .round { -moz-border-radius:12px; -webkit-border-radius:12px; } Here’s a nice article explaining this in more detail: http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/border-radius/ But as usual Internet Explorer lets us down with …
How do I take payments on my web site?
How do I take payments on my web site? Quickly Accept Credit / Debit Cards Online *** 2015 Update – Exclusive Sage Pay Discount Code / Coupon Code *** LIMITED TIME OFFER To get 3 months FEE with Sage Pay simply click the banner below Use Promo Code: SLK3MT 100% Valid Sage Pay Promo Code 2015 Start taking online payments in the …
Lorem Ipsum
What is Lorem Ipsum? Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic …