We sometimes talk on the telephone with various technology companies, and their representatives. Two camps, both alike in dignity The people on the telephone fall into one of two camps: technical and non-technical. Nobody, however, seems to be sure exactly how to pronounce the abbreviation “MySQL”. The people who made and host MySQL have been …
We often install the Open source (free, and developed by a community of programmers, rather than one, paid, team) Content Management System (CMS), WordPress. WordPress was originally a blogging platform developed by Matt Mullenweg, but, in its short history, the software, which runs on (also Open source) PHP and MySQL, has developed into far more …
As we stated before, copy pasting from Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer directly into WordPress’s Visual Editor is not a good idea, as this will import a lot of styles and fonts – and a lot of unnecessary code – from the word processing software you use into WordPress, leading often to undesirable results, like …
It is not a good idea to copy directly from Word Processing software, such as Microsoft Word, into WordPress’s visual editor directly, as word processors add lots of styling information which gets copied across, and you may well find that your website’s styles and fonts are not respected in your document! When you do copy …
In our post completion SEO guide, and whenever people ask us how to improve their web presence, one of the things we recommend is adding a website to quality directories. The are two things to be aware of here, though, and one is included in that sentence: Quality. We recommend hand crafting your directory listing, …
This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is generally speaking in a WordPress context – because we are WP specialists – but a lot of the rules will apply to really any website, particularly one which runs on …
For business, time is money, so any time saved can equal money in the bank. We know this, at Silicon Dales, so we build websites that work, quickly. We also know that the computer should be doing a lot of the hard work, even when you are trying to communicate your messages to your clients, …
Silicon Dales are web development agency which focuses on complex development projects using open source technologies. The business focusses on eCommerce stores, large and complex development projects, and integration tasks. Most projects feature an amount of complex customization, for business clients who generate a significant portion of their revenue from online properties. Building business critical …
