This is a really quick, easy and simple method of adding a featured image to wordpress pages or posts.
Simply open your theme’s functions.php file, go to the bottom, and just before the ?> paste this

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

This will then enable the “Set Featured Image” option within WordPress.

How to get it to show in your theme?, paste this somewhere

<?php if (has_post_thumbnail()){the_post_thumbnail();}?>
 
For FULL usage instructions, along with using specific image sizes, and how to impliment them in your wordpress theme visit here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails#Default_Usage

It’s been announced and it’s going to be very soon that Android 4, or Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS for short, is coming to the HTC Desire HD.
Now like the vast majority of people with DHD I’m really excited, so excited I contacted HTC for the Stock Gingerbread ROM, or the ICS ROM.

My email came back from support basically telling me that I’d have to send it off for repair??  To cut a long story short, if you’ve flashed a custom ROM to your Desire HD then without shelling out to HTC (again) you won’t be able to simply upgrade to ICS.

So, I’m on the look out for the STOCK Unbraded ROM For a Desire HD, My phones totally unlocked and came sim free.

I will add, this is possibly the final straw with HTC, they release an app letting you flash custom roms to your phone but don’t offer the stock ROM to download? Madness.

Regardless of how sexual the HTC One X, I simply won’t be going with HTC no more, the build quality, problems, and pathetic customer service from HTC will leave me waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S3, besides it’s only a matter of 3-6 months until that model will be outdated.

If anyone comes across the stock rom please let me know! Will be posting on the XDA Forums, and If I find It, then I’ll add a new blog post and host the ROM!

I really can’t wait to get on with Google Drive, Google’s own Cloud Storage service – it’s supposed to be launching in the next few days / weeks!

I feel really sorry for the likes of DropBox though, their service and app is excellent on Android phones, but will people just simply stop using it since Google Drive will work seemlessly on Android Phones?

Space is more too with a hinted 5GB Free to start Drive, compared to the 2GB from DropBox it’s going to get more people moving.

Let’s hope the app auto uploads Photo’s you’ve taken off your Droid Phone to cloud storage!

But, with all these new Google Ventures, I wonder how long until Google becomes Aware!  #judgementday

Isn’t it insanely annoying some times when you open a CSS File or a HTML File only to find Dreamweaver has added loads of blank lines, if your CSS is more white space than code then running this script will be very helpful.

I’ve used a tonne of CSS Compressors to fix Dreamweavers fail of blank lines in the past, but most of them do not support CSS 3, and the ones that do – seemingly do not support the transition effect.  This however, works fine with PHP, HTML and CSS (self tested).  So no more tears for those added line breaks in your PHP or CSS, just run this fix!

Open the file in Adobe Dreamweaver, press CTRL+F to load the Find & Replace dialog box (or Edit > Find and Replace).

Do the search on the source code view.

Check the box “Use regular expression” and un-check any other boxes.
Find: [\r\n]{2,}
Replace: \n
The hit “replace all”

It may take a while so fit back and wait whilst your CSS / HTML or PHP Document is flushed of all those annoying line breaks!

NOTE:  PLEASE ENSURE YOU BACK UP OR MAKE  A DUPLICATE OF ALL FILES BEFORE “CLEANING”.

> I will not be help responsible for any lost work caused by this quick fix!

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.

Get your company ranking for better with a FREE 30Day SEOmoz Trial!

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.