Category: Web Design
The Curse of User Generated Content
‘User Generated Content’. A lovely phrase dreamed up by marketing people getting all excited about their website visitors creating fresh new content. This golden content would then propel them to the heights of Google with almost no effort required by them. ‘Building a community’. The Holy Grail of internet marketing. Not so fast. While this […]
Building the Responsive version of FCSWebsites.co.uk
I have recently rebuilt my main business website at www.fcswebsites.co.uk using responsive design techniques. I was confused by the whole thing until I read Ethan Marcotte’s book Responsive Web Design, which explained how responsive design is based on a flexible grid, flexible images and media queries. Converting to Responsive After a brief bit of planning, I stripped back […]
New website brand launched – Horsey-Sites.co.uk
FCS Websites have just launched a new website brand offering equestrian web design to horsey businesses and organisations in the Nottingham area and beyond. We are using a modified WordPress setup to offer low cost websites to the equine industry after discovering that many local stables and riding schools don’t have a website, or have […]
How to spot a sketchy client…
“#1 way to spot a sketchy client: anyone who contacted you (or who you contacted) via Craigslist. Remember folks, if you want to make less than 12,000 a year get your gigs from CL which is a better place for buying used tshirts and getting raped than for getting freelance work.” From the comments on […]
Textpattern on 1and1 hosting – “Error 500 – Internal server error”
If you are trying to install the lovely Textpattern CMS on 1and1 hosting (you poor thing) then you’ll probably get the following error: Error 500 – Internal server error An internal server error has occured! Please try again later. Most hosts work with the default .htaccess file that comes with Textpattern 4.3, but 1and1 don’t […]
Textpattern website launched for Nottingham driving instructor
A new Textpattern site for Nottingham driving instructor Gavin Pinfold launched this week, hosted on our newly upgraded green web hosting server. Most driving instructors seem to try and make their own sites which look awful, so we jazzed it up a bit with floating transparent graphics, pictures of his driving school car and some […]