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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We love WordPress and 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 [...]

Website trends show the need for businesses to get mobile-web savvy. With the introduction of iPhone and Android and the downloading of applications (apps) onto these smartphones (and others), many businesses are, at worst, considering their requirements to get involved. Here’s our take on helping you make a decision: Product and purpose It may be time to [...]

We are often faced with the dilemma of how to quote for work. Do we provide a fixed fee estimated on how much work is required, or do we invoice for the project at stages of completion? There are advantages to both, but then we have to consider competitiveness, our client, the project, reputation, post-development [...]

In order for your website to appear favourably in search engine results depends on how much time you are willing to dedicate to your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) strategy. First of all, you’ll notice that I use the word ‘strategy’ in the first sentence. It’s important that you have a strategy to determine how you [...]

Many companies choose to outsource their website design and development to companies away from their immediate locality, so we thought we’d put together some advantages and disadvantages together to discuss the major factors of outsourcing: Advantages The chosen company, if they operate in London for example, may have more household names within their portfolio that [...]