On July 1st 2009 Bluebit Web Design became a Limited company, thanks to our clients and staff and their continued support. We’ve grown over the past few months and now have 4 members of staff in the Bluebit offices and it really is a busy place. We’d love to see you so if your ever…
DetailsIf you’re finding that your oscommerce based shop is extremely slow, try turning on the mysql cacheing to speed up regularly running queries. You can also change the products table storage type to “innoDB” which can make a significant difference to the speed. As always, please ensure that you make adequate backups of your data…
DetailsOur new mailing campaign engine mailGuu has been launched and gives our users the power to send email to their subscribers in a controlled and completely automated way. No more need for large BCC lists in Outlook. Get perfectly formatted, validated and spam checked emails. We even take care of the subscriptions and unsubscriptions through…
DetailsOk so whilst building mailGuu I came across a problem that baffled me for a while; how do I create a 3 bucket layout and make the entire bucket and all its content a clickable link? Well the answer was relatively simple as most of them are. The main problem is with IE6 and IE7…
DetailsOur latest mail email engine is almost ready for launch. We’ve got a few tweaks to make and we’ll be letting it loose for the general public. MailGuu enables you to manage a full email marketing campaign completely from your browser. Packed full of clever features such as a comprehensive analytics package and reporting functions,…
DetailsEdited on the 25th March 2009 due to errors in the post and amendments to the code, apologies to anyone who has run into any problems, it should all go smoothly now. Introduction During the development of this tutorial, I discovered that my previous post on jQuery Expandable Navigation actually described a method to allow…
DetailsBefore I begin, I am not claiming this to be a definitive technique, in fact as a relative new comer to jQuery it can no doubt be vastly improved, however I thought I would share my technique and invite people to tear it apart if they so wish! My aim Create a navigation menu using…
DetailsWhilst browsing round the interweb I realised that there are no really clean ways of delivering different coloured bullets to the text unless you want to use SPANs or create your own bullet images in JPG, GIF or PNG. Lets take a look at both these methods: wrap your LI text in a SPAN A…
DetailsWe just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the team here at Bluebit Web Design, Southampton. We’ll be closing for the Christmas break on the 24th December and will be back, fresh faced, on the 5th January 2009. Ongoing support for hosting and servers will continue…
DetailsFancy an alternative to the traditional chocolate advent calendar? One of the highlights of the web design year is the annual “alternative” advent calendar over at 24ways. 24ways serves up articles to help web designers and developers alike, keep up to date with the latest techniques and standards based practices. It’s only on day four…
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