The imp-ressions Blog

New website: Dean Hendy

January 28th, 2011 | Filed under Portfolio

New website for Dean Hendy, professional musician, session drummer and drum tutor, is now nearing completion. This project is based on a custom-designed WordPress template. Go to www.deanhendy.com to view the site we’ve built. Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Pick The Winner

January 28th, 2011 | Filed under Portfolio

New website for Pick The Winner, a horse racing tipping, information and discussion site at www.pickthewinner.co.uk Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Web Glossary

January 6th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

Some answers to commonly asked questions about web related terms: CMS: Content Management System. This is the facility to manage the pages, documentation and appearance of a website. Popular CMS’s include WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc. HTML and XHTML: is a programming language synonymous of the web. HTML is an acronym of Hypertext Manipulation Language. PHP: [...]

Moving a Website from PC to Mobile

January 6th, 2011 | Filed under Blog,Marketing,Web Design

The pace of  creating websites that display on mobile devices  has been steadily gathering for a while and is now becoming more important than ever for many businesses to consider. If your business and website communicates with people on the move, business people who are away from their desk a majority of the time, and [...]

Paymentsense Payment Module for Prestashop

December 29th, 2010 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

We have recently integrated Paymentsense with a Prestashop online e-commerce solution for one of our clients. This service is now available for any others who wish to integrate Paymentsense into their online shop to accept credit and debit card payments. Does imp-ressions recommend Paymentsense? Hmmm, it depends how you look at it. They have cheaper [...]

Next Google PageRank Update?

September 7th, 2010 | Filed under Blog

Our most-asked question at the moment is “when will the next Google PageRank update take place?”. From what we know, and the guys at Google are rather secretive about this, the next update will take place between September and October. This next update is likely to be a large one. As we know, Google has [...]

WordPress Menu to show subpages when parent clicked

September 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Blog

One of my recent projects has required a menu containing both parent and child pages within a sidebar. After quite a lot of deliberation and trawling through WordPress tutorials and the like, I finally found a bit of code that I could easily modify to get the correct result. Without the code, my menu was [...]

Serco

September 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Portfolio

Our new website development for Serco (Sleaford Electrical and Refrigeration Company Ltd) is complete. Visit www.bearonline.co.uk to see our work. Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

PAS 78 and BS 8878

July 12th, 2010 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

If you are a web designer or developer, you should be familiar with PAS 78 and the new British Standard BS 8878 that will replace it. It is surprising how many web designers/developers are not familiar with them, and many have never heard of them. PAS78 In brief, PAS 78 was published in 2006 as [...]

Envirotrain

July 10th, 2010 | Filed under Portfolio

New website for e-learning company Envirotrain, built for people to study environmental subjects online. Take a look: www.envirotrain.co.uk Includes a members area, full CSS and design customisation, logo design, CMS and scope for lots of future developments. Tweet Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

Getting to grips with Web 3.0

June 16th, 2010 | Filed under Marketing,Web Design

Web 3.0 is already taking shape to advance the internet to a new level. If you’ve been trying to get to grips with Web 3.0, you’ll keep finding the same keywords describing the concept: Semantics Consolidated Dynamic Content Intelligent Software Confusing. So what do these terms mean? The Oxford English Dictionary defines Semantics as: the [...]

5 Sources for Website Design Inspiration

June 15th, 2010 | Filed under Web Design

It happens to all of us; there’s a website design to do and the canvas remains blank. This is when I tend to delve into the goldmine of the internet as there are some great sites out there that list great examples that can give that little bit of inspiration. 1stwebdesigner: created by Latvian Dainis [...]

10 Ways to Improve Your Word-of-Mouth Marketing

June 14th, 2010 | Filed under Marketing,Web Design

Someone asked me recently why I don’t advertise imp-ressions using adwords, magazines and online banners. Then they asked me why I don’t commit a whole load of time to increasing my web traffic to the website? Being curious, they then asked me how I still get loads of enquiries after I don’t do any of [...]

5 do’s and don’t s when taking on web work

March 29th, 2010 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

I’ve been mulling over writing this article for a while as everyone who partakes in designing websites will have their own views on their own individual practices. My 5 do’s and don’t s are those that I personally believe in, and I’d like to share with you. I will admit that early in my career [...]

Hand Tool Stuck on Illustrator

March 27th, 2010 | Filed under Blog,Web Design

Having problems with Illustrator where the hand tool gets stuck? It was driving me insane before I realised the very very simple solution! After reading through lots of posts on discussion forums about stuck keyboards, flash issues and software reinstall solutions I finally found the answer… Press the spacebar. A frustrating problem cured after it [...]