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Love the new WordPress 3.9 update!

We have just upgraded to WordPress 3.9 and we are pretty impressed! If you have been using the latest version of WordPress then you won’t immediately see anything vastly different. But look closer. Many of our clients update their pages and posts using the Visual Editor and this has been upgraded which is great news. One new facility we think is great is the ‘drag and drop’ option for adding photos from your desktop. There is also the option of cutting and pasting text from Word without having to clear up all the messy code. Yippee! Website designers everywhere will be really pleased to hear about this!

Moving onto Widgets. There is now a Live Widget Preview function. This enables you to add, edit, and play around with your widgets from the theme customizer. Just go to Themes, Customize and you should see your widgets appearing on the left hand side menu bar. This enables you to preview your changes in real-time and only save them when you’re ready.

We also love the new Gallery previews. There are lots more improvements too 🙂

But a note to small business owners with WordPress websites. Please check with your website designer BEFORE upgrading to ensure that your theme is compatible. And don’t forget to back up your website before upgrading.

Upgrade website for Dragon Surveillance

We were approached by long-established clients Dragon Surveillance in Neath as they needed a quick revamp of their website. We suggested a simple, responsive design which would showcase their CCTV and surveillance equipment services. The client needed a content management system so that they can update the site at their own convenience.

New website launched for West Wales Credit Union

We were very pleased to be asked to design and build a brand new website for West Wales Credit Union.
The organisation had recently changed their name and had a new dolphin logo designed.
We decided to take our inspiration from this logo and we designed a responsive website which reflects the colours of the sea and the yellow colour of the logo.

The new website offers Members secure banking. We were pleased to work with Kesho with the online banking part of the website.

How much does it cost to build sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc?

Occasionally we meet a new client who believes that they have an idea which will catapult them into the stratospheric levels of the Whatsapp or Angry Birds billionaires. Sadly they usually have far more enthusiasm than cash and their ideas are often a copy or combination of existing applications. When we start to work out some rough development costs they are usually astounded. Quite a few were also hoping to get 100% grant funding for their idea. Ahem. Now we don’t like bursting anyone’s bubble but sometimes we have to let them down gently. For others it may be better to start off smaller or look for a soft loan or investment. But either way we help them to investigate their idea further to decide if it is viable.

So when we spotted an article by TheNextWeb.com called ‘How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest start ups?’ we were intrigued. These guys have spoken to a variety of experts to put together some idea of the costs of developing 10 of the World’s hottest start ups, namely Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Uber, Pinterest, Shopify, Angry Birds, Tumblr and Vine. Really interesting!

So for all those people with big dreams check this out first.
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