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Add Pagelist Programatically in Concrete5 15 Aug 2018, 08:11 # Sometimes you may want to add a pagelist in the php code of your site rather than a pagelist block. Here's...
Concrete5: Prevent Spam through your Contact Forms with a Honeypot 18 Jul 2018, 19:33 # Spam is really annoying and can cripple your inbox. Adding a honeypot allows us to cut down on automated spam from bots so we spend less time...
Run a tools file in Concrete5 via Ajax 16 Jul 2018, 09:17 # I've been doing a lot of work on a particular project using ajax to build up page lists. In this simple example, we'll look at how to...
Add Opengraph tags to your Concrete5 site for Social Media 29 Jun 2018, 08:28 # Sharing things on social media is massive these days and Opengraph tags can make the experience richer and...
Run Litespeed Cache with Concrete5 16 Mar 2018, 09:41 # Caching systems don't always play ball when you are editing your site because caching is all about serving up saved "snapshots" of a...
Planning a New Website Project 21 Jul 2017, 09:04 # I believe that proper planning is worth every minute of time you spend on it and avoids problems later on. Here's...
5 Years On: Trends in Web Design, SEO and Social Media 19 Apr 2017, 10:57 # Let's look at how searches for various terms in the web design, development and digital marketplace have changed in the last four...
Using HTML5 Video 7 Apr 2017, 12:43 # Video is a really important part of the media we add to our websites these days. It used to be a real pain to add video if you weren't using...
Powerful Less Mixins 5 Apr 2017, 14:22 # Less and Sass really make writing lots of CSS much quicker and easier and one of the most important features is the "mixin". Here's...
"I don't have time for social media" - Buffer to the rescue! 14 Mar 2017, 09:22 # The social networks are busy places now, you need to be posting regularly. But that takes time and if you keep going back to your social accounts...
Set Goals in Google Analytics to Measure Website Conversions 15 Dec 2016, 11:37 # How do you measure how successful your website is at driving enquiries? How do you know how effective certain calls to action are? We can measure...
Add a Customer Feedback Form to Your Website 28 Nov 2016, 09:22 # Getting feedback from customers will help you improve your customer service and the quality of your services or products. It doesn't need to...
Been Working on a Nice Little Project: Members Forum 26 Oct 2016, 17:44 # Been working on a nice little project for a client: a members forum where users can post messages and enter into...
5 Reasons Why You Don't Want to Buy Cheap Web Hosting 6 Oct 2016, 11:07 # I often get asked why our hosting is more expensive than some of the budget alternatives out there. The truth is not all hosting is equal and the...
Optimising Concrete5 Website Performance 24 Jun 2016, 14:29 # There are different things to look at when optimising page load times on Concrete5...
Add git Commit, Pull and Push Icons to Netbeans 8 Apr 2016, 15:17 # If, like me, you use NetBeans and git, you may get tired of right clicking and choose git > commit or git > remote > pull...
Introducing our Website Referral Scheme 16 Feb 2016, 15:12 # Our website referral scheme pays a generous 10% of the website projects total to the referring...
5 Factors of Website Usability 15 Feb 2016, 15:04 # Here's five important usability factors when considering a new website or optimising an existing...
Why do you Need a Responsive Website? 5 Feb 2016, 14:57 # You probably don't want to hear that you need a new website, but if your current site isn't responsive then I'm afraid you really...
Tweak PHP and Apache Settings in WHM 21 Jan 2016, 14:51 # WHM is great for managing lots of websites on one server. It also has some really neat functions that allow you to change some of your config...
5 FREE Tools to Help with SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) 20 Jan 2016, 14:41 # Search Engine Optimisation is a time consuming task, where you need to compete against the efforts of your competition online. Many tools exist to...
Add IE8 Support to Bootstrap 3 4 Jan 2016, 13:26 # HTML5 and Bootstrap are awesome tools for building responsive websites. As such old browsers like Internet Explorer 8 have been left behind a bit and...
Designing to a 12 Column Grid 19 Nov 2015, 13:21 # Bootstrap is one of many CSS frameworks that uses the 12 column grid to create responsive layouts. If we design a website to fit a 12 column grid...
Stack Permissions in Concrete5 v5.6+ 16 Nov 2015, 13:18 # We checked all the usual places - permissions in the sitemap, made sure stacks were approved until we found the long forgotten stack permissions...
Concrete5: The Perfect CMS for Marketers 13 Nov 2015, 13:10 # A CMS is a Content Management System, which is a platform for a website that allows you to make updates via a user interface. Visitors to your site...
The Do's and Don'ts of Great Web Design 2 Nov 2015, 13:04 # When looking around the web, we can see that the design of different websites varies massively in quality and this is before we even consider user...
Welcome to Horsham: Our Home Town 28 Oct 2015, 12:57 # Based in the county of West Sussex, Horsham is a market town about 30 miles south west of London and only 18.5 miles from...
Great sites for Web Design inspiration 15 Oct 2015, 12:50 # Everyone needs inspiration every now and then and web design is no different. When designing new websites we can get "designers block" just...
Making a Website that is Easy to Update with Concrete5 v5.7 12 Oct 2015, 12:42 # One of the things my clients most love about Concrete5 is just how easy it is to update. Of course, the website needs to be properly built to take...
What is Flat Web Design? 6 Oct 2015, 12:34 # Cool web design used to be all about gradients and drop shadows and making the website really jump out of the page. Recently this has all changed, we...
Google Trends: Web Design vs. SEO 21 Sep 2015, 12:28 # The web is an ever increasingly competitive place so having a nicely designed website is no longer the be-all and end-all of your online success. You...
Infographic: The Numbers Behind Websites 2 Sep 2015, 12:24 # An infographic of some of the numbers behind...
Using Package Designer for Concrete5 27 Aug 2015, 12:22 # There are some awesome add-on's in the Concrete5 marketplace. One of them is called Package Designer and it specialises in turning a custom...
Adding & Editing Blocks in Concrete5 v5.7+ 12 Aug 2015, 12:12 # Let's look at how you add and edit blocks in Concrete5 v5.7. First of all, login to your site and go to the page you want to edit. Next we need...
Adding Additional Product Images in CoreCommerce (Concrete5 v5.6) 11 Aug 2015, 12:07 # By default, the coreCommerce add-on for Concrete5.6 allows users to add additional product images to their products. This is nice, but they only...
Adding a New Page in Concrete5.7 7 Aug 2015, 11:42 # Concrete5.7 offers much more flexibility with page templates and page types than previous versions, but adding pages is now a bit more involved which...
Turn Off Image Cropping in "Vivid Store" eCommerce Add-on 27 Jul 2015, 11:33 # This week I've been building a new eCommerce website using Concrete5 v5.7.4.2 and Vivd Store, an eCommerce...
Config Settings for Concrete 5.7 14 Jul 2015, 11:29 # Concrete5 v5.7 also allows for custom config settings to help fine tune your Concrete5 website. There are a lot of settings, this post is designed to...
Config Settings for Concrete 5.6 14 Jul 2015, 11:26 # Concrete5 5.6's config file (/config/site.php) allows us to easily customise some additional features in the...
Disable Block Caching in Concrete5 10 Jul 2015, 17:09 # Sometimes blocks don't work well if you run Concrete5's cache on them. Imagine the state of a block changes somehow, you may not want this...

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