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Ecommerce

We utilise the excellent Zen Cart eCommerce engine to power our eCommerce websites. The huge list of standard functions plus it's ability to be customised means that is probably the best eCommerce system available today. We have built a huge number of eCommerce websites based on Zen Cart and each one has been built with a unique design tailor made to the clients needs. Features have been added or removed to enhance the shoppers experience to each website. The admin area of Zen Cart is quite easy to use from a clients point of view and we are always on hand should you need us... You can take payments via a vast array of payment processor's including PayPal, NoChex, Worldpay, Protx and you can have different postage options depending on weight, distance, special delivery etc. Prices for eCommerce websites start at £600 - this price includes everything you need to start selling your goods online. Because we are Zen Cart 'specialists' we can also provide extra, useful functions to enhance your website and your customers experience - these enhancements include: Post your new products to Twitter automatically Post your latest news / blog to Facebook Shopping rewards points system. Various cool 'web 2.0' image display systems including image zooming etc FREE gifts - give your customers a free gift for spending £xx Lots Lots more... Drop us an email if you want to discuss what Zen Cart can do for you!

Joomla Design and Development

Joomla is one of the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) with thousands of users globally and a massive number of add-on extensions for just about any purpose. With a CMS system YOU can administer your own website - editing the page text and adding images keeping your website up to date and fresh.

Social Networking

The biggest buzz of 2010, Social Networking is the latest craze and a must have for the majority of businesses large and small. We can help you connect to your customers via some of the most popular social websites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Protx URL's to stop working September 2010

Tuesday, 20 July 2010 18:16 General

sage_pay_logo Just a quick heads-up to all those people who use SagePay for payment processing, if you are a long standing customer of SagePay then you will have probably signed-up to the payment processor when it was called Protx.

Although SagePay has been trading for quite some time now they have still been accepting payments through the old protx integration URL's - well that is about to STOP on the 30th September 2010.

Any payment info sent from a website to SagePay via the old URL's will not be processed after this date, so if you have an ecommerce website or accept online payments via SagePay then it may be worth double checking that your URL's are correct - contact your web developer if you are unsure about how to check this.

SagePay have been monitoring traffic to the old URL's and have been informing customers via email of the change and the impact on their websites, so if you have had an email from SagePay recently about URL's then please don't ignore it!

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How to protect your website content

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 09:23 General

This little tutorial covers how to prevent people from using simple techniques to steal your website text and images - please note that this is by no way a bulletproof way of protecting your website content, there are ways around this system but it will stop the casual copy 'n paste visitor...

You will need FTP access to your website and you will need to be comfortable editing files (either .html or .php etc)

The first step is to disable "right click" as this is the most common way to grab images from a webpage:

You will need to edit each page that you want to protect if your website is HTML based or if you are running a script such as a Blog or a CMS system then you should be able to get away with just editing either the index.php file or the main template file(s)

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We are donating 10% of all project fees to the Woodland Trust

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:44 General

woodlandlarge We are very pleased to announce that as of today we will be donating 10% of all our web design and development fees to The Woodland Trust.

The Woodland Trust are a UK charity dedicated to preserving and maintaining our countries woodlands.

Our donations will help The Woodland Trust to plant new trees and also to maintain and improve our woodlands for the enjoyment of everyone.

The Woodland Trust is just one of the fine UK charities that Total Web Development plan to help in the coming months - keep an eye on our blog for further updates!

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Give your Joomla powered website a speed boost

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:10 General

We have just finished installing the JFinalizer Joomla plug-in into this website and we are very impressed with the results...

For those of you who don't know, Joomla is an open source CMS (Content Management System) and it is powering this very website...

Pages in Joomla are created "on the fly" by pulling the page content from a SQL database as they are needed (when you want to view them) - this type of system comes at a price though... As you add more and more features to a Joomla website you find that page load speeds start to drag. This is because each page becomes more and more complex with different CSS files and Javascript files being used and called on every page.

What JFinalizer does is to use several different techniques to merge, compress and optimise the files that make up a Joomla page so that they get to the visitors browser faster - resulting in faster page load times!

The JFinalizer plug-in is 100% free and installs very easily, although configuring it isn't so easy - some features may or may not be compatible with your hosting environment and there are quite a few options to turn on and off...

If you want to learn more about what JFinalizer does then view our forum post here http://www.totalwebdevelopment.co.uk/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,15/catid,9/func,view/id,10/#10

Or visit the authors website here http://www.farbfinal.de/jfinalizer

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