Last week (Wednesday, March 13, 2013) Google announced via its official blog that it was retiring its RSS aggregator Google Reader in its annual ‘spring clean’ on July 1st, 2013. I hadn’t been a regular user of Google Reader, I had added a few blog feeds a while ago but I never had any use …
It will come as no surprise to many that Google makes most of its money from advertising. In fact 97% of Google’s revenue comes from advertising and according to a study released by eMarketer back in 2011 print advertising spending in the United States was expected to fall to $33.8 billion in 2012 from …
A few weeks ago I started to receive SPAM emails from a friend of mine and it quickly became obvious that her email account had been compromised. Her account wasn’t compromised because of a phishing scam or because her computer had caught a nasty bug it was a simple case of a weak password. I …
Both Sarah @Sarah_Darby and I @RobertDicks attended the Port 80 Localhost event on Wednesday 29th August 2012 (thanks to Joel Hughes @joel_hughes for organsing the event). I listened with great interest to Robert Mills of Bluegg who championed the ‘content first’ approach to web design projects, which I completely agree with. Due to time quickly running …
Having just tested one of our new sites in Internet Explorer I suddenly found that none of the heading tags were displaying in Internet Explorer 9. After a little bit of digging I found the problem – Cufón Fonts, (Cufón is a font-replacement technique that uses javascript and vector graphics to write fonts from a …
Its been a busy few months here at Forte Web Solutions, having recently launched a new website for Mark Hodge at MH Exec Travel, and successfully pitched for three further web projects that are now well underway. We are very pleased to be developing a site for Pamper Divas in Bridgend. Pamper Divas provide specialist …
I am often asked the question how to style the last post in the WordPress loop differently. There are many occasions when you may want to do this. For example you may have 2 homepage promos and the last right hand item would have a right hand border. Its quite easy to do this quickly …
May is here already and it seems like an age ago when Sarah and I combined our expertise to set up Forte Web Solutions back in January. It is often said that time flies when you are having fun and we have both been involved in some exciting projects during the past month. New Websites We …
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