Archive for 'Problem Solving'

Removing the VAT from a VAT Inclusive Price

Posted 06 September 2011 | By | Categories: FAIL, Problem Solving | No Comments

Ok, so we just spent the last 30 mins figuring out how to remove the VAT (20%) from a VAT inclusive price. The reason for this, is a customer of ours has an awesome online shop made by us – and all his prices are INCLUSIVE of VAT/Tax. He trades internationally, so we’ve been working on a [...]

301 Redirect – Move a site down a directory wildcard

Posted 05 August 2010 | By | Categories: Google, Problem Solving, SEO | 1 Comment

When we build a new website for a customer we sometimes build it on their live domain, but in a sub-folder like /dev /new – then when the time comes to make the site live there is sometimes the need to put a redirect in place in case Google has cached the development URLs. Now [...]

The Roundstorm Virus/Trojan Information

Posted 29 July 2010 | By | Categories: FAIL, Problem Solving | 3 Comments

It was a Sunday afternoon, and I was chilling at home with my family when I got a call from a friend saying a website was down – upon investigation something had altered one of the index.php files and it was this that was causing the site not to load. Upon further inspection i found [...]

Google’s “Caffeine” update is LIVE!

Posted 09 June 2010 | By | Categories: Google, Problem Solving, SEO | No Comments

Caffeine? Aint that the stuff in my coffee? – Yes it is, but its also the nickname given to Googles updated indexing algorithm. It was first rumoured back in august of 2009 that Google would be making some fairly heavy changes to its indexing algorithm, and with the changes bought fresh hope of fairer SERP’s. [...]

Google buys its way out of another pickle – Gmail.co.uk

Posted 03 June 2010 | By | Categories: Google, Problem Solving | No Comments

I was trying to think back to when i started using Gmail for the first time – i have quite a good account name,  i got it back when you had to be invited to use the system. I love how Gmail has changed the way i use email, i love how i can bolt [...]