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Strong Password Generator

With more and more websites being targeted by hackers for your data, it is imperative that you have a strong password to all of your accounts. Strong passwords are hard to think of, so we have created a strong password generator which does the job for you. By default the Dessol strong password generator, generates passwords…

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Website for Vicky Fraser

Vicky Fraser is an experienced copywriter and marketing specialist based in the UK. She provides marketing advice, copywriting for web and print and marketing courses. Vicky came to us, wanting a clean, modern and capable website that is easily up-dateable. Based on WordPress with a premium theme, which we have customised heavily, she can easily…

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PHP Code Snippet

Occasionally you will try and install a new plugin on a fresh install of WordPress, and come a cropper with an error that returns ‘Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.‘   This is usually caused by incorrect permissions in the wp-content folder, as WordPress needs to create a…

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say-goodbye-windows-xp

On the 8th of April 2014 we hit a modern milestone. The operating system we all learned to love has been tossed away by Microsoft. Finally, after 13 years, the updates have stopped (publicly). If we ignore the fact the British government is paying Microsoft £5.5 million to carry on providing updates for public services…

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Website for Chobe Game Lodge

Chobe Game Lodge is a luxury safari company based near Kasane, Botswana, Africa. They are host to one of the most impressive locations for seeing wildlife in the Chobe National Park. In conjunction with Black Duck, we have developed a modern site to reflect their professional brand. Based on the Bootstrap framework, it enables the…

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Employmentor Website

Employmentor is a fixed fee annual subscription service which will equip you with all the tools you will need to manage day to day employment law issues in your business. Employmentor needed a fresh new look to re-launch their service. We created a WordPress website for the main website and a custom CMS for the…

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PHP Code Snippet

Obviously, where possible, you should always keep your plugins and WordPress versions up-to-date to avoid any security implications. However there maybe times when you need stop a plugin from updating, for example when you have modified it. This small code snippet will stop any update notifications on a specific plugin. add_filter(‘site_transient_update_plugins’, ‘dd_remove_update_nag’); function dd_remove_update_nag($value) {…

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PHP Code Snippet

If you are seeing the words “error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document” when you try visiting your WordPress blog’s RSS feed, then you are not alone. It seems that there are issues with some installations where whitespace amongst core files is causing XML errors….

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Website for Norfolk & Suffolk Financial Advisors

Norfolk & Suffolk Financial Advisors are chartered financial planners offering a comprehensive financial planning service, based in Lowestoft, Suffolk. They specialise in providing independent, whole of market advice, on all areas of financial planning to individuals, attorneys, companies, trusts and charities. Norfolk & Suffolk came to us needing a new, modern website with interactive tools for their…

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