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There are over 1 billion websites on the web, when you want to find something search engines have to sift through thousands of pages in under a second to present suggestions to you, all these pages are stored in one big database. So how do you make your website appear…

Recently a client requested that we display for them a percentage of how far through the tax year we are. I did some looking online however I couldn’t find anything which suited my needs. Below is the code I ended up writing which will calculate the percentage value and display…

Have you ever come across a great looking site? Or even a site that just made you think “that was great” or “different”? Well the idea of this post is to make you more aware that there are lots of great ideas that you can create. Don’t feel like you…

This is just a quick tip on how to kill a MySql process that has become stuck. This sometimes occurs when an update/create command on a large amount of database entries. Firstly login to phpmyadmin and find the appropriate database. Select the SQL tab and in the window enter : SHOW…

As website developers, we all hope the day does not come when a client phones to tell you that their website has been hacked, or weird popups are appearing, or worse still the web hosting company has taken their site offline. Well recently a clients WordPress site that we have…

Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, which will cause issues for anyone that is trying to run their new project using Older versions of MySQL (5.7.7 and below) or MariaDB. It’s default charset is now utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. Recently I have…

The web is forever changing, every year developers and designers alike have to constantly fight with new and upcoming technologies to learn them before anyone else in order to stay ahead of the game. More specifically, in this post, we will be looking at upcoming web design trends for 2017…

When inserting web widgets one must consider the potential impact on SEO as a lot of client side widgets are not visible to search engine crawlers due to the fact that they are rendered in Flash or Javascript. However in recent years Google has developed and improved their crawlers to…

Since my last tutorial on the Select2 Jquery plugin using remote data loaded using Ajax and PHP has been so successful, I am updating the tutorial to work with the newer Version 4 plugin. If you dont know what the Select2 plugin is : Its a Jquery plugin to turn…

Just recently whilst working on our new website : Car Catcher UK I had to create an area for website users to enter their postcode. Obviously for the search option to work to its fullest we made this a required field and also added a distance dropdown. but that meant…