We launched a HTML 5 Website last year in an attempt to judge, if there was any SEO benefits from using the cleaner, robot friendly HTML5 Code.

Unfortunately, it seems not, our platform? Website Design Chesterfield

Website design chesterfield has had some great results, but still only as good as, if not a little worse than our Web Design Mansfield site.

So, whilst HTML5 may provide cleaner code – it does not seem to increase search engine rankings.

I keep getting a problem when using Dreamweaver Find and Replace – whilst modifying certain PHP files, but mainly with wordpress.

It has become apparent, that the crappy software decides to some how add spaces all over the shop like some random crack head, So if  you go to your PHP / WordPress Plugin / WordPress Theme and get this error:

The plugin generated 2 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

The not to worry! Chances are you’ve got some white space / spaces after the closing php tag!

For those who have been tinkering and are not certain what a closing PHP tag is then this is it:

?php>

Anyway, I hope that fixed your problem

Today I stumbled upon the v2 of Google Web Fonts

WOW, Blown away. Typekit had better watch their toes with this beast!

http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2

Try it now! It’s everything and more! Still “only” 180 fonts but that seems to be growing insanely quick!

Custom Category Templates and Custom Category CSS for OpenCart relates to the following tested versions:

OpenCart version(s):  1.5.0, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5

> Newly tested on OpenCart 1.5.1.1 and works

This was tested today on OpenCart v 1.5.0.5 today and was working flawlessly.

Ever wanted to have a custom category template (hard coded elements) On certain categories – or to totally change the layout completely?  Or maybe you’d just like different CSS?

These instructions relate to the default theme of OpenCart but should work for any theme provided you change the default bit with the themes name!

Open: catalog/controller/product/category.php

Find (Line 329):

if (file_exists(DIR_TEMPLATE . $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl')) {
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl';
} else {
$this->template = 'default/template/product/category.tpl';
}

Replace With:

//start custom category design by ItsAdam.co.uk
if (file_exists(DIR_TEMPLATE . $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl')) {
if ($category_id == 1) { //Category 1
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category1.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 2) { //Category 2
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category2.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 3) { //Category 3
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category3.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 4) { //Category 4
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category4.tpl';
} else { //default
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl';
}
} else {
$this->template = 'default/template/product/category.tpl';
}
//end custom category design

For our new custom categories we will need to create the templates so that they’re viewable and custom.

Find: catalog/view/theme/product/category.tpl

And duplicate it and name it inline with the naming in the above code, ie category1.tpl etc etc

This OpenCart Mod is published for free to the Community, if you require more extensive modifications or OpenCart Themes, contact by email:

opencart at itsadam.co.uk

Sorry for the anti-spam measure, I get lots of traffic and even more spam

New! Download these instructions in plain text format (handy if you copy and paste and it’s not working or wordpress ignores the code tag).

Download the Instructions in Plain Text Format

As a fun little experiment I’ve decided to make a HTML 5 “landing” site for local search terms.

So along comes the Web Design Chesterfield web site.

This website will focus on SEO Chesterfield, Ecommerce Chesterfield and Graphic Design Chesterfield.

The idea is to really see the difference between using HTML 5 and HTML 4 for SEO Purposes.

From new structure of HTML 5, search engines should be able to take more note on what area of a website is what.

For example, a companies address is wrapped in the <address> tag, the Navigation is wrapped in <nav> and so on.

Anyway, stay tuned for the results of the little test experiment with HTML 5

A few books I want!

If anyone has any reviews about them (if they’re good, bad or terribad!) then let me know

It’s rather terrible that the web seemingly has no SECURE input field, by this I mean where the fields contents are not remembered by any browser.

An idea:
<input type="secure">

And please, no retard browser specific calls.

PayPal for example, I only have to put my card details in again whenever I clear my internet history, what happens then if I was on a public PC and didn’t clear my history? Joe Bloggs could come along and buy something via my PayPal account.

Less than ideal isn’t it?

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320" />

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0" />

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=false" />

<meta name="viewport" content="width=480, initial-scale=1.0" />

viewport is a formatting model for media in the css2.1 spec, where it’s a window or other form of viewing area on screen, through users view a document or website.

The iPhone’s resolution is 320x480px or 480x320px in landscape (which is how most people browse really).

This can be very handy for reading terms and conditions and so on.

Craig Hockenberry has figured out the “perfect” viewport and is avaliable here: http://furbo.org/2007/07/24/one-line-of-code/

Thought this would help anyone designing a website for purely mobile purposes.

Don’t forget that the iPad and iPod will pick up on this, aswell as Blackberry’s etc

Ok so we’ve Tweeted the Idea of a faviboob – It’s Basically a Favicon that’s a boob – Olly sort of got abit excited about a Russian SEO Site that had a FaviBoob !

So, we googled it to see if it was a phrase well known, unfortuantly 0 results found for FaviBoob!

Now its time to test the Twitter vs Blogging power when it comes to getting your new word out there!

Shortly before writing this article both me and olly had tweeted with faviboob in it, we didnt hastag it but still, no results on google yet.

Let’s see how long it takes now with a blog post!

You heard it first here folks, FaviBoob! We should use it for breast cancer aweness or something? Who’s with me?

Having this annoying little issue with Dreamweaver?

The following translators were not loaded due to errors: Server Model SSI.htm: has configuration information that is invalid.

The fix is really simple, theres a WinFileCache in the App Data Folder that you simply need to rename or delete.

The patch for windows vista to this file is generally:
C:\Users\YOURUSR\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\en_US\Configuration

Enjoy!