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MK Geek Night (#6 19th Sep 2013)
A quick write-up from the 6th MK Geek Night held on 19th Sep 2013. MK Geek Night is a free creative conference held in Milton Keynes every 3 months.

BrightonSEO Sep 2013 – Our Key Takeaways
Read our takeaways from BrightonSEO's first ever bi-annual autumn conference. Key topics included Social, Mobile, Local and Video.

Magento Training Videos Page Launched
We at Creare have finally launched our page of Magento Training Videos. You can now find all the YouTube-hosted videos on our new page which allows you to […]

Category SEO Heading Extension for Magento
I while ago I developed a quick-fire Magento extension to solve a very simple problem. When you name your categories, those category names are used in the navigation […]

Google announce Schema.org Organisation Logo Markup
Google announce their new Schema.org Organisation Logo Markup code, allowing webmasters to nominate their company logo for appearing in the SERPS.

Aheadworks Gamification Extension Review
Thanks to a little post about Gamification in eCommerce I did a while back, Aheadworks got in touch and asked me to have a look at their newest […]

Render Template Blocks in Custom WYSIWYG
When developing admin models that have CMS capabilities, it’s likely that you’ll want to use Magento’s WYSIWYG editor in a similar manner to static blocks and CMS pages. […]

Custom Featured Image Sizes in WordPress
In this video tutorial, learn how and why you should use Custom Featured Image Sizes in your WordPress theme.

Google Maps API v3 tutorial – how to make a simple custom map
Go beyond the basics of Google Maps embedding with this introductory tutorial to the Google Maps API. James demonstrates how to locate coordinates, add a custom pin icon and much more.

A/B Split Testing Magento with Google Analytics (CRO)
There are a number of different ways to split-test websites and webpages to see which design or layout converts better. It’s all about CRO – a bit of […]

Local Magento with MAMP – Unable to login to admin
I’ve probably already blogged about this but I’m sticking it on the new site so I don’t forget where I put it… There’s a little bug with MAMP […]

Local SEO – The Simple Guide To Success
The simple guide to local SEO for your average SME who has regional coverage surrounding their business.

WP-htaccess a simple WordPress .htaccess Boilerplate
Check out our free, open source .htaccess boilerplate tailored for Wordpress. We've curated the best code for a fast, secure and optimised Wordpress site.

Create a Twitter Widget with Twitter API 1.1 & PHP
Following on from my very simple tutorial on Whatever Happened to Twitters Latest Tweets? I thought that I’d compile all of the code that I have created over the […]

Using Varien_File_Csv with Magento
The Varien library that runs alongside Zend is full of useful classes which are used throughout Magento. One of which is Varien_File_Csv which is created specifically for reading […]

How to resolve http vs https duplicate content issues
Learn how to prevent and solve duplicate content issues for secure sites that are accessible via https:// and http://. Three different solutions including the Canonical Link Element.

WP Meta Query with Custom Field Post Object
Using Advanced Custom Fields with WordPress is an absolute pleasure, and the fact that you can reference other post types as options within fields is an awesome feature. […]

Whatever happened to Twitter’s Latest Tweets?
In this tutorial I’m going to show you a few examples of broken “Latest Tweets” implementations across a number of different websites, why these are now broken and […]