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On the quest for the perfect development setup i have come across a little gem. I have dual monitors connected to the windows machine and I have been using the screen on the right to host a VNC session to control the Mac Mini....

You may have heard about a slew of new printers that now support printing on-the-go using mobile devices. What you probably haven't heard is that you can easily replicate this functionality using any relatively recent Apple Mac, a standard home broadband connection and a little utility called Automator....

Instead of looking at the ways we could increase conversion, we wanted to see how important the existing parts of our website were - to see what we should leave in and what we could get rid of when doing a redesign. Read on for the excellent results.
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Sitemaps might not be the most sexy subject in the world of web design and development but certain events that happened to our website now mean we take them very seriously. In this case study we look at how and why an XML sitemap temporarily destroyed our web sales - but first lets look at why we need an XML sitemap. Why an XML sitemap? The answer is simple. We did it because Google made it...

Actinic Plugins to help you have a life I have been using Actinic since 2002, and gone through several painful learning curves, but have always looked to improve my website, my customers experience of the site and of course my wealth creation opportunities. Recently we are using V8, and have come up with several ideas that we consider improve life for us and are also positively impacting our...

As a user of Actinic since V5.0 one thing that has remained constant in an ever improving world is the checkout process. As I use Secure Hosting as my PSP, My customer has to click ‘NEXT’ five times before I can take their money off them. If you look at optimising your website for your customers (rather than Google), one of the key issues is to make your checkout easy for your customer to use....

After importing a snapshot i noticed i could no longer preview the pages i was creating in actinic v8.5.2. I eventually found that the problem was caused by the javascript that was loading in the head section of the page. You can turn the javascript off in preview mode by wrapping it in the following block: <actinic:block...

We have developed this code over a period of a couple of weeks, and are donating it free to any Actinic users who would like to enable Google E-Commerce tracking within Analytics. Once this code is enabled the information that you can mine from Analytics is absolutely top notch. I am willing to give you this code for nothing – but (there is always a but!) I want a decent link back from your...