Website design, web development and outsourcing, based in Hexham - Northumberland
Our blog includes updates of the goings-on at Digital Acorn. Also expect technical musings and commentary on web-development issues.
If you use the media upload system in WordPress to upload documents there may come a time when you want to update the document. There is no built-in functionality within WordPress to allow this without changing the link. And the link to your document may now be referenced in many other places. This plugin solves this problem quite … [Read more...]
Setting up Google Webmaster Tools is very easy, and it will open up a mine of information for you about your website. The easiest way to set it up is as follows. Log in to your Google account (create one if you don't have one). Navigate to the following URL: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools Click the 'Add Site' button and enter your URL. Then get the html file provided by … [Read more...]
Happy New Year! The Digital Acorn team just gained another asset. Craig joins us from the beginning of the month, further strengthening this small team of dedicated coders. In addition to general web and software development skills, Craig has extensive e-commerce experience. Having worked both within development teams and as a freelancer he was the ideal candidate for us. Expect more of the same - … [Read more...]
First an admission; I liked Google Wave - it had a loads of potential. The problem was - it was like Google wanted to do something that wouldn't tread on Facebook's toes, so they teetered round the edges with the weird colaborative-documents angle. Well, now Google have unashamedly begun stomping all over the toes of both Twitter and, to a greater extent, Facebook. It is just like Facebook. … [Read more...]
I've spent a little time looking at html5 recently. It has some excellent features. Everyone seems to start with the 'video' tag - and whilst this is useful - it isn't the main deal for me. Yes, it cleans up the code a little syntactically, but there are still codec/format wranglings and different browsers currently support different formats... so... nothing changes there. I love … [Read more...]
Has your Google ranking just taken a tumble? If you have ever enlisted an SEO practitioner who may have been less than ethical then this may be why. Google has rolled out an update to its search algorithms which detects and seriously downgrades the rankings of link and content farms. This is great news for information seekers on the internet. Prior to this update many pages containing only minimal … [Read more...]
Google's Blogger platform is a great starting point to get into blogging It's easy to see with the following list of positives that it is a popular choice. No hosting worries - hosted with Google. A good range of templates to choose from A nice and easy wysiwyg editor Easy to add widgets Blogger is used as a blogging platform by individuals and business bloggers. Unfortunately each … [Read more...]
Here are some of the pages I've been bookmarking. In addition to mainstream WordPress stuff have a look at MongoDB. If you're a python developer and are are looking for significantly better scalability than SQL-like databases I would recommend you give pyMongo a look. WordPress › HeadSpace2 SEO « WordPress Plugins tags: wordpress seo plugins Network Tools: DNS,IP,Email tags: … [Read more...]
I'm liking Diigo for bookmarking at the moment. I can link to stuff on my mobile to read later on a decent sized screen - although I think my 'must read later' list will just be a big bucket of stuff I rarely get time to go through. It can do page-caching - but apparently not on the mobile (where it would be most useful). There's also annotations where you can comment and highlight elements of … [Read more...]
Digital Acorn is featuring in the Hexham Courant this week... showing off our new office and the recent appointment of Lee Thompson. Click here to find out what they had to say, and have a look at our piccy! … [Read more...]
Digital Acorn was established in 2006 and is based in Hexham, Northumberland UK. We've been fixing and enhancing websites ever since.
Peter has over 15 years experience in software development, website development, computer game programming and project management.
Solving problems, fixing bugs, optimising code and proposing innovative solutions are what makes him tick.
Peter splits his time between supporting customers and coding. Peter is likely to be your primary contact and ensures you are delighted with our service
Competitive pricing, guaranteed inhouse coding and a personal service are just a few of the factors which ensure satisfied customers.
Lee joined Digital Acorn in January 2011.
Lee is an experienced PHP developer and has a keen eye for quality webpage layouts ensuring you an excellent finish on your project. He has exacting standards for both the visible details and the compliant HTML and CSS coding underpinning your site.
Lee is also our Social Media expert, providing advice on the best way to engage your customers through these crucial channels.
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