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Google Instant

Sep092010
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Google are again set to raise the bar with search engine development when they release Google Instant next week. Instant aims to display up to the second results as the user types, modifying the results as further characters are added to the search bar. Google have described it as “search at the speed of thought”. [...]

Apple ventures into Social Networking with ‘Ping’

Sep022010
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Apple have entered the race for global social networking supremacy following the launch of Ping, a new application to be integrated into the latest iTunes update. The service, which will be able to be accessed on Macs and PCs as well as other Apple software, and will allow users to build a network of friends [...]

WordPress 3.0 Menu Management

Aug202010
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With the recent WordPress 3.0 release, WordPress have added a useful little feature allowing you to manage menus within a theme. This has been one of our favourite new features in WordPress 3.0 at SJL Web Design, so we have decided to share it’s brilliance and give a brief demonstration of how you can set it [...]

6 Mega Time Saving WordPress SQL Queries

Aug182010
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Behind the scenes of each WordPress website there is a MySQL database driving it. And although 99% of the time you can make changes without touching this MySQL database, there are some serious time saving queries that can turn out to be lifesavers. In this post I will be listing 6 of these uber time [...]

Email Marketing at SJL Web Design

Aug122010
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At SJL Web Design we can help your company increase its online worth through the implementation of an E-Mail Marketing system. E-Mail Marketing is an easy and effective way of promoting your business to new and existing clients. With an E-Mail Marketing campaign you can keep existing clients abreast of the latest developments within your [...]

Limit the Length of WordPress Post Titles

Aug032010
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Recently we were working on a WordPress website with a very specific layout that meant post titles on the blog homepage could only be a certain length before they started effecting the pixel perfect layout of that page. To conquer this we decided to adopt an old method of shortening the title tag and adding [...]