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UP Search Digital currently have an opening for a PHP Web Developer.
The applicant must have a keen interest in all things web related and be constantly refining their skills with new development techniques. The applicant must have a keen eye for detail, excellent communication skills, and be able to work confidently to deadlines.
Essential knowledge:
- Clean, pragmatic development in PHP
- Be able to hand craft valid web mark-up (XHTML/HTML)
- CSS3 (with particular importance stressed on graceful degradation)
- JavaScript & the jQuery library
- MySQL
Beneficial but not essential knowledge:
- Knowledge of SEO
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The internet is full of blogs, articles and online courses on how to do SEO. Some give good honest advice, others portray SEO as a mystical dark art and then there are some that simply promote underhanded and what the industry calls ‘Black Hat’ ways of trying to cheat the search engines.
The truth is that SEO isn’t rocket science, it just takes a bit of thought, time and creativity. As a professional Manchester SEO company we always promote and practice ethical techniques of doing SEO; techniques that search engine spiders like.
Perhaps your SEO isn’t working or at…
It’s been a mad couple of months and loads have happened at UPSearch – for starters we’ve moved into a slick new HQ in the heart of Manchester – more on that in a different post because this post is about our new addition to the family – give a warm welcome to Alison! … (or Ali)
Ali joins our web development team as a web developer and has moved over to us from JD Williams. She’s already been here for a good few weeks now and is already making a huge difference in servicing new client sites.
Ali is…
We are an SEO company based in Manchester and currently have an opening for a junior web developer. This role would suit a college/university graduate, or someone with experience looking for a career in web design and development.
The applicant must have a keen interest in all things web related and be constantly refining their skills with new development techniques. The applicant must have a keen eye for detail and be able to work confidently to deadlines.
Essential Knowledge :
• Clean, pragmatic development in PHP
• Excellent, valid web markup (XHTML / CSS)
• JavaScript & Libraries – jQuery…
With the monumental rise in popularity of mobile device web browsing (thanks to smart phones in particular) there is an increasing need for companies and individuals to have a positive presence in the roaming world of mobile browsers.
It is with this trend, that a new technique in web design and development takes full merit. With responsive web design, gone are the days of creating a mobile friendly mini-version of your site – all you need is one, designed correctly. As the name suggests, responsive web design is the process of creating a website that can respond and change…
For anyone dependant on search engine traffic acting as the driving force behind your website, it’s time you checked out the Google +1 button.
On the surface, Google’s brand new +1 feature may appear as simply yet another button to include along side your websites ever growing arsenal of social sharing tools , however, when you begin to look at both the dynamics at play behind the scenes and ultimatly, the results, it very soon becomes clear that the +1 button has what it takes to deliver dramatic results to your social search engine rankings.
How to integrate the Google
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Short answer: No! Long answer: No way!
Microsoft says it’s new version of Internet Explorer, IE9, is its best yet – and that’s entirely true. It also says it supports 100% of HTML5 and 100% of CSS3 – a statement which couldn’t be farther from the truth it seems.
Mozilla employee Paul Rouget has launched an attack on Microsoft’s statement – by posting a startling infographic of browser compatibility tests pitting IE9 against Mozilla’s own Firefox 4 (he also shows compatibility figures going back 2 years to Firefox 3.5). The infographic shows results of tests on…
Canonical URLs are easy to implement and are important in SEO to avoid duplicate content penalties. Take www.example.com for instance. Without canonicalisation – Google will treat this website AND the website on the main domain at example.com as separate independent websites. Thus, diluting traffic.
An easy way to fix this, is to create a .htaccess file in your website root (normally /httpdocs or /public_html). In this file, paste the following code at the top of the document:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This code will ensure that any user…
I had been scratching my scalp off recently, trying to decipher why Magento, the popular eCommerce platform, had decided to stop displaying an entire library of product images on a client’s site. Finally I had a “EUREKA” moment, and decided if it could have been a permissions problem. As it turns out, it was! (For the most part anyway).
So I thought I’d share the fix here:
- Log in to your server via SSH
- cd to the media directory of your magento installation
- Run:
find. -type d -exec chmod 757 {} \;
This fix assumes…
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