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Tips For Modifying Magento PDFs
Whether you’re creating a new invoice layout or adding extra details to your delivery note, Magento PDFs are notoriously a pain in the arse to modify. The reason […]
Get WordPress post taxonomy values
Taxonomies are really useful when developing a custom WordPress website. They can give you extra information you need and also allow you to narrow down your search criteria, […]
Track Retina/Hi-dpi visitors with a Google Analytics Custom Variable
It’s still early days for the retina/hi-dpi display but it’s pretty clear that it’s here to stay. Many designers, myself included, have begun adopting new retina techniques ready […]
How to manage 1000 SEO Clients – BrightonSEO 2013
BrightonSEO saw Creare's debut conference talk by Nick and James: How to manage 1000 SEO clients. If you missed it, you can find the video and slides here.
How to track phone number clicks/touches in Google Analytics
Smartphones are gaining ground on the humble desktop as more and more of us are using portable devices to access the internet. Users looking for services on their […]
How to source your theme’s directory in WordPress
It’s important when developing in WordPress to utilise the built-in functions that are there to make our lives easier. Whether building a plugin or tailoring a theme, we […]
Distilled’s LinkLove 2013 – my key takeaways
As far as industry conferences go, Distilled put on a great show. Having now been to four of their SEO conferences in London, LinkLove 2013 did not disappoint. […]
After coming back from Magento Live in London and listening to Hedley Aylotts fantastic presentation on Magento load speeds I decided to do a little test on a […]
Adobe close down their free BrowserLabs tool
Sadly Adobe's free browser testing tool - BrowserLabs has closed its doors. In a microblog James explains why and also the best alternative.
Instant Magento Performance Optimisation Review
The Instant Magento Performance Optimisation How-To published by Packt and written by Nayrolls Mathieu is one of the few e-books that I won’t instantly delete from my computer. […]
Magento Connect Error – Cannot chdir after login
Quick Microblog today on a common problem – Magento Connect issues. This specific problem involves the error: We encountered this issue because we had renamed our Magento folder […]
How to enqueue Scripts & Stylesheets to WordPress via a plugin
Still hard coding your Scripts & Stylesheets into your WP theme's header file? Learn how to correctly manage your scripts with WP Enqueue.
Create a simple ‘Implied Consent’ EU Cookie Law Banner with JavaScript
Comply with the EU Cookie Law using our simple JavaScript banner that follows the same 'implied consent' format as the ICO and the BBC.
In this week's video James introduces JW Player and gives a simple step-by-step installation tutorial using JW Player 5.7.
Font Awesome (3.0) Installation & Prototyping Tutorial
I’ve been banging on about Web Icon Fonts like Font Awesome for months now. Web Font Icons really took off in 2012 and look set to become standard […]
Setting Up a CRON Job for Magento
Cron jobs are automated events that are triggered by the server. A lot of people think that the Magento cron runs automatically – but this is not the […]
Using a Controller Observer to Dispatch your Own Event
Sometimes you may find that the big bad Magento Observer Cheatsheet does not cut it. When you want to do a particular thing and there’s no observer for […]
Creare raise over £3K completing the National 3 Peaks Challenge 2012
At 03.06am Saturday 18th August 2012, our brave team set off at the foot of Ben Nevis in Fort William, Scotland to complete the National 3 Peaks Challenge […]
In this week’s video blog, Nick and I walk through the new EU Cookie Law which is now live and active in the UK. For the third time […]