Although the idea of roadside lemonade stands never really took off in the UK (we’re not sure they even really existed outside American cartoons for that matter), the simplicity of the concept is attractive – particularly in the otherwise complex marketplace that is the internet. Historically running an online shop is quite difficult. Either the tools used to host an ecommerce website are too complex, too expensive, or completely inflexible when trying to bend the tool to your specific business
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If you spend any time at all hanging around with web developers, eventually you will hear mysterious acronyms like CMS start cropping up in conversation. A CMS, or Content Management System, can be used to provide a publishing platform for your company website.
The big CMS players
There are hundreds of Content Management Systems available, all of which have their own niches. Some of the most popular CMS platforms are completely license free, helping to reduce website running costs over the long
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We’ve recently been racking our brains over possible ways to keep a PHP Framework we’ve been developing, agile within individual projects. The Framework is still quite young development wise, but it is mature enough to develop sites on. So ideally what we wanted to do was create a Git repository for our Framework under a organization account on the lovely Github. Once done, the tricky part was trying to separate the framework code from the individual sites code.
This was quite
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Revolutionary you say? Well ok, ‘Revolutionary’ might be a bit over the top but we certainly think we’ve nailed the future of web design all be it at the moment on a very small scale. Introducing Bytewires new website customisation features.
Just under a month ago now we released our new version of Bytewire (our business’s) site and a much revised solutions & services offering. If you haven’t already taken a look, you should! What we offer is some loosely bundled
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