Avoid that embarrassing robot voice from interrupting your day! Awkward… a text read out loud! At Silicon Dales, we use the Samsung Galaxy SII smartphone for our business mobile, currently, and somehow recently we managed to get the phone to read out the name of whoever has sent a text message to us, or to …
Shortcodes are great, and can be used for a variety of purposes within WordPress to cut out the hassle of adding code all over the place. Even better, shortcodes allow you to edit things centrally and have them updated wherever they appear across your blog. But, often, we find, our clients would like a feature …
Google Shopping results are starting to spring up at the top, and at the right-hand side, of ordinary Google search results where product names (or related terms) are included in searches on the web’s most popular search engine. There’s also a bit at the top of Google which says “Shopping”. But what is Google Shopping, …
You can make your product listings stand out in Google’s organic search results by using Microformats top tell the search engine just what is in your page. AKA Rich Snippets Things like prices, in stock, ratings and reviews can all be highlighted in Google searches, and, in the case of images, ratings, and the words …
If you use PayPal as a checkout, either on its own, or with other payment gateways and providers, in your online shop, or auction, chances are you’ll want to customise the look and feel of your checkout yo provide your customers with a more seamless transaction process. This tutorial will help if you use the …
If you have recently setup an Amazon EC2 instance and would like to configure access to Port 443 (HTTPS:// traffic) on your new instance, there are a few things you should do. First Step – Allow Port 443 in your Security Group Firstly, you need to tell your EC2 instance that it is allowed to …
A step-by-step guide to maximizing paid and organic growth on your Facebook page. Over the past few months, we’ve recommended using Facebook advertising to grow a business or event Facebook page to a number of clients. When we’ve done this, our clients have usually said “How do we achieve this?”. Because it isn’t as intuitive …
The tutorial below describes how to remove the PayPal logo that shows up by default in Magento‘s standard themes, in the bottom right-hand side. We’re working on another Magento installation for a client this week, and, as often happens, the latest version of Magento Community has moved a few things around. We wanted that logo… …
It is quite simple to add a PDF (or other file for download) into a WordPress post or page, however, sometimes we forget exactly how to do it in the way that we want (i.e. with the correct link text and linking to the right place!). How to Add PDF into WP The following steps …
UPDATE 2019 – the article below was originally posted in 2013, and a lot of terminology and practices, particularly in SEO (do we even talk about PageRank any more? Remember those PR toolbars? Remember toolbars!?!), have moved on apace since then, but the general principles still hold true today… A lot of the time, when …
