• Freelance wordpress development - Installation and theme customisation
• Freelance magento development – Installation and theme customisation

We’ve actually been working with Wordpress since 2004, and Magento since 2008, however we have been specifically asked for these products by new and existing customers.

If you would a demo of these products, or have a question how these web applications can help your business then contact us .

Here are two blog posts from Magento colleagues who have found various ways of speeding up the open source ecommerce platform:

Ways to speed up Magento

Magento Site Speed tips

Also follow @magentodesigns for the latest tips and information from the Magento community.

Try this useful cheat sheet, always helpful for reference, allowing you to learn more about wordpress development at the same time.

There’s also a load more here -www.speckyboy.com/14-essential-wordpress-development-and-design-cheat-sheets/

Here’s the definite list for bulletproof browser testing suite:

Cloud services

• Online: Browsershots – Cost – free – all browsers current and past versions.

Local installs on a Mac

• Mac OS X: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Camino
• Mac OS X using Parallels with installs of Linux, Win XP and Win Vista operating systems:
  • Windows XP: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
  • Windows 7: Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE6, IE7 and IE8 – using IE tester.
  • Windows Vista: (if required)
  • Linux: Seamonkey, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

As part of your quality assurance you should include which browsers and operating systems you are testing on in your client contract. Any backward compatible coding for IE6 or below should be added at extra cost if required.

With existing sites, if you look at Google analytics data, you will be able to see the share of users using each browser and make the best judgement from there, in terms of which old browsers to support.

If you notice your style sheets are getting bloated, it may be time to stop and give it the code a good make over. With the following steps and your style sheet will be in shape in no time. Fortunately, there are some great online tools out there for cleaning and optimising  your CSS for you.

Web page analyser:

• Web page analyser – Find out how long your external CSS, JS files take to load

Find redundant CSS code:

• dustmeselectors – Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.

Learn CSS shorthand:

• CSS shorthand cheatsheet

Optimise, clean up CSS:

• CleanCSS
• Tabifier Works for both HTML and CSS

Wordpress plugins:

• CSS compress

Learn more about CSS management at 456Berea Street.

Job recruiters for Creatives:

• Blue Skies Careers
• Gabriele Skelton
• Aquent
• Nakama

Job search sites for Creatives:

• Guardian Jobs
• New Media Age
• Brand Republic
• Jobserve

And the iPhone might as well have been a cardboard prop off Star Trek. But today, the iPhone is not only dully common, it’s the prototype on which most modern smartphones have been built.

But as of 2007, U.S. households were more likely to be use a cell than a land line.

Time has voted the Android over iPhone for Time Gadget of the Year

Here we are about to start a new decade, and the predictions are almost a sci-fi cliché at this point, but by the end of the next decade, it’s easy to imagine a contact lens, like any other contact, that could fit on your eye to provide a heads-up display (HUD) over much of your life experience.

For computers in the next decade, the mobile OS will be indistinguishable from the desktop OS. Portable computers will be but aesthetic shells for your omnipresent connection to information and processing power in the cloud.

Read more at Popular Mechanics