The imp-ressions Blog

Owner Aces Award

January 25th, 2012 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

Imp-ressions owner Lee Greenhill has aced the SEO in Practice Professional Internet Marketing Certificate with the perfect score of 100%. Not only does this reassure our clients and customers that we know our stuff in getting the most out of the search engines for their websites, it reassures us that we are at the top [...]

Bulk update a MySQL Table

January 12th, 2012 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

Sometimes it’s necessary to perform a bulk update to a MySQL database table, to reset all rows to 0 or to add a particular piece of text to each item and so on. The easiest way to do this is to use the SQL tab for the chosen table and run a query. For example, [...]

5 Web Trends for 2012

January 11th, 2012 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

What does 2012 hold for website design and web development? We’ve been asked it a lot just recently, so here are our thoughts on where we think the web is going, and how websites will need to keep up. Search: With the chaos that Google Panda created in 2011 we expect more to come out [...]

2011: The Year of the (Google) Panda

December 14th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

From a web point of view, 2011 will be considered ‘the year of the panda’. Google’s Panda update, initially rolled out in February, hit many websites hard and launched an attack on the web’s content farms and websites with poor and unoriginal content. Keeping up with the developments and seeing how they affected the web [...]

An Easy and Validated MySQL RSS Feed using PHP

November 22nd, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

Recently we were asked to create a custom RSS Feed for one of our clients through their custom content management system that validated with no errors with W3C. Everything on the website is controlled by a MySQL database so here’s what we did: Determined what data they required for their list of RSS feeds within [...]

TSS-Outlet

November 14th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio,Web Design

New e-commerce website by imp-ressions for TSS Outlet now live at www.tss-outlet.co.uk   Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

DQF Commercial

November 14th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio,Web Design

New website design and development for DQF Commercial at: www.dqfcommercial.com A relaunched website for DQF’s e-commerce business COMING SOON! Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Google Chrome challenge to become number one browser gains pace

August 10th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

2011 has seen Google Chrome become the 2nd most used web browser, pushing Microsoft Internet Explorer into a lowly 3rd position according to W3C. Traditionally, Internet Explorer and Firefox were the two browsers of choice, with Firefox gaining pole position as the most used in 2009, but in the space of 2 and a half [...]

Elite Stables

August 3rd, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio

New website for Elite Stables ready for handover to client. More details soon! Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Updated: Rainbow Play Shapes

June 21st, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio

The new website for Rainbow Play Shapes is online at www.rainbowplayshapes.co.uk Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

South West Shelters

June 21st, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio

New website for South West Shelters now online at: www.southwestshelters.co.uk Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

One of the Web’s Best Kept Secrets

June 2nd, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

This is one of the web’s best kept secrets. Way back in 1997, an open-source project called Dublin Core was launched whose predominant role was to enhance the search engine’s indexing of websites. Dublin Core has never found it’s way into the mainstream of web development, but provides additions that help search engine crawlers establish [...]

20 Easy Ways to Speed Up Your Website

June 1st, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

A quick loading website creates win-win situations and it is good for your SEO too – Google has speed within its algorithm, and will penalise a slow loading site. Just like Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), there are on-page factors and off-page that can speed up your website. And because we love WordPress, there are lots [...]

10 WordPress Plugins You Can’t Do Without!

May 17th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

We love WordPress andĀ its plugins that make it such a powerful content management system. There’s a great community of WordPress savvy developers creating some fantastic tools to expand the functionality of WordPress sites, some of which we couldn’t do without. Here are the 10 most valuable plugins (in our opinion) that we really can’t do [...]

Updated: Platinum Finishes (SW)

May 15th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Portfolio

New website for Platinum Finishes (SW) now live at: www.platinum-finishes.com Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz