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.

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Nows the time to try it – ideal if you’re a small business owner looking to get more tech savvy – or get that opencart store of yours some much needed SEO Tweaks!

Today we’ve had a flood of errors with customer websites where google hosted jquery and other scripts from loading.

On most PC’s trying to access the Google Content Delivery Network (CDN) will give you a 404 error of the file not found!

If like me you have used Google’s DNS you might be confused because everything is working fine, however it seems OpenDNS has stopped access to the Google Datacenters due to a phishing scam??!?

Seriously? Good way to break half the internet guys!

OpenDNS Credit goes to:

https://twitter.com/#!/matbennett/status/154492602559897600/photo/1

Seems like I would suggest using a fallback script to local, this will then be bulletproof!

This sort of thing would work:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>!window.jQuery && document.write('<script src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"><\/script>')</script>

Or if you’re using MooTools using Google Hoosted / CDN Try this:

<script src=\"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/mootools/1.3.0/mootools-yui-compressed.js\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script>
<script>!window.MooTools && document.write('<script src=\"js/mootools-yui-compressed.js\"><\/script>')</script>

Opencart Grid View by Default

This is a tutorial or how to guide to help you make OpenCart 1.5 display the grid view by Default.

This is really really simple and easy to do, and why there’s no option in the OpenCart Admin Area to specify this is beyond me, however.
Open > your themes folder > template > common > footer.tpl

And then before </body>

Add this code:

<script type="text/javascript">$(document).ready(function() { display('grid'); });</script>

And that’s it – you’re done!

Enjoy

I found this Second Hand Catering Equipment website that specialises in the sales of Used Catering Equipment.

I sold my item for free since it was the first time I listed catering equipment on their website.  I’d sold a load of stainless steel catering equipment within 3 days of listing it on the website.  Very pleased and I highly recommend the website to everyone!

I’ve had my ups and downs with TSB, mostly due to their internet banking being absolutely ass and randomly not updating my account details for up to a week in any one time.

Anyway, this is the story of where I’ve applied for a house with my Girlfriend, a nice 3 Bedroom semi detached house in a very sought after location in Mansfield, Notts. We get the house and all is good, we decide to get a joint bank account so the bills can all come out of that and so that all the funds can go in and we know jointly where we stand month by month, and then can save accordingly.

We are both Lloyds TSB Account holders, although for some reason I have a Welfare “Cash Account” even though I have £1444 a month deposited in, I have had offers to upgrade but from the past annoyances I was always on about transferring banks to NatWest, who would give me an overdraft.

Anyway my girlfriends heads in to Lloyds TSB on her dinner break and is told by the customer services person, provided we are both account holders we can get a joint account within 5minutes, provided we both come to the bank and bring our cards.

So today, Friday the 24th of August, both my Girlfriend and I book half a days holiday and hit Lloyds TSB to get this joint account so we can sort out bills before moving in to our house on September the 1st.

After entering and being greeted by a lady, we’re told that they are unable to give us a JOINT account due to my account being a welfare “Cash Account”, so I said, “I’ve been harassed by TSB Staff to upgrade my account for ages, upgrade it then”. Her response was fine, and she set about upgrading my account, and turned to me and said, sorry you’re account isn’t eligible to be upgraded.

Apparently a few months ago my when the internet banking was playing up again and Tesco didn’t take the petrol debit out for a few days it caused me to go overdrawn (at the end of the month), which is the reason why they will not upgrade my account?

I’ve been with Lloyds TSB for many many years, I’d never expect any bank to refuse to give me a joint account purely by the type of my current account, nor can I see why I’m being refused an upgrade when it’s already been offered, they give my girlfriend the world and she earns ALOT less than me.

So Lloyds I’d just like to say, I will be moving banks unless I get a telephone call within 24hours confirming that you’ve upgraded my account, and asking us to come in and create a joint account. I now wish I wasn’t lazy and went to NatWest when I was supposed to.

Lloyds TSB, you have to be the worst bank in England (also your interest rate on loans is moronic). And before any smart arse comments about my credit rating, I’ve got a possible £5000 worth of debt I could get myself in to with various other store cards & catalogues, a normal bank account is NOT too much to ask, and some decent customer service should be mandatory.

Contact me via Twitter yeah?, like yesterday.

OpenCart Themes

Here is my top 3 OpenCart 1.5 Themes / OpenCart Templates that I think, help make OpenCart the #1 choice in the ecommerce world. These Opencart themes are cheap, and can give your store the professional look to ensure you sell as much as possible online.

1)  Fashionista Premium OpenCart 1.5 Theme

Fashionista is a premium OpenCart theme with stylish modern design look, which can be used on variety of web stores. It’s extensive use of the powerfull jQuery javascript framework it delivers the ultimate web store experience that every customer likes. Built from the ground up with precision and utilizing powerfull theme color changer, you will be able to create the web store you want!

Works on OpenCart v1.5.0, v1.5.0.1, v1.5.0.2, v1.5.0.3, v1.5.0.4, v1.5.0.5, v1.5.1, v1.5.1.1

2)  Shoppica – Premium Open Cart Theme

Shoppica is a stylish premium OpenCart theme (currently supported versions are 1.4.9.3/1.4.9.4/1.4.9.5/1.5.0.5/1.5.1/1.5.1.1). The clean and modern design allows you to use the theme for every kind of online shop. In combination with the powerfull option to change all the element’s color, Shoppica theme give you the possibility to make a unique e-commerce website that stands out of the crowd!

3)  Kinder – 4 in 1 Premium OpenCart template

Kinder is a visually beautiful, technically advanced Open Cart theme. It comes with 4 colour schemes (blue and cool, black and elegant, green and vibrant, orange and warm) so you can choose the one that will suit your taste. The design is clean and attractive and it’s packed with some nice jQuery effects making it a better shopping experience for your customers. We think that this is a beautiful theme that will work well with any kind of shop, especially the ones selling online clothes, kids products, cosmetics, beauty products, perfumes, furniture, jewellery and watches.

This is the command you paste in to your SSH Window to display the WHM Mail Queue, this will spit it out in a list and show domains, makes it a lot easier to track spam / offending domains.
exim -bp | exiqsumm

How to clear WHM Send Mail Queue via SSH – Clear email queue

/usr/sbin/exiqgrep -i -o XXXXXX | xargs /usr/sbin/exim -Mrm

Thanks

This is a post regarding 301 Redirects with OpenCart and OpenCart 1.5 / 1.5.1

Are you having a problem with your OpenCart SEO? Are you trying to add 301 Redirects?

Are you getting ?_route_= added to the end of your redirects and Error Not Found Message?

There is one fix, that will work, it does however still change the target URL, you have to add an ?, yes a question mark!

Here’s an example of what you’d use for a 301 Redirect in OpenCarts .htaccess file:

Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url?
or
Redirect 301 /the-old-file.htm http://www.yourshop.com/your-new-product-url/?

I hope this helped you guys out!

I get a lot of OpenCart Related traffic to my site, interested in advertising or maybe you need some SEO Services for your OpenCart Store?  If you want to know more feel free to email me at:  seo@itsadam.co.uk