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R&R Catering Hire Testimonial

December 13th, 2010

“Will Craig from Bredon Web, has more than helped our company this month, we had our web hosting company upgrade our servers recently so our old site was no longer supported, so we had to completely rewrite the code from scratch.

We gave Bredon Web the job of rewriting the ecommerce section of the site to be incorporated into the front end design which had already been made using WordPress by us, they visited our premises, gauged which package suited our needs and got straight to work, which has worked out very well, all our remit was successfully acomplished in a tight timeframe.

While Bredon Web is a small company, their dedication to the task and solving our current issues has proved to be vital, we are more then happy with Bredon Webs services up to date, and look forward to a long term partnership for many years to come improving the site and SEO rankings further into the future.”

Giles Walburn – IT Manager – R & R Catering Hire Ltd.

R&R Catering Hire Redevelopment Project

December 13th, 2010

Over the past few months, I have been working closely with Bredon Web and Seligsoft to transform the website of successful local business, R&R Catering Hire Ltd of Andoversford in Gloucestershire.

I was tasked with producing a PHP version of their ASP website using as much of their current PHP development website as possible. The team agreed with a seamless WordPress-osCommerce symbiotic platform as it suited 80% of the brief ‘out of the box’. 

This allowed me to meet the deadline for the back end in time for Seligsoft to produce the front end graphics using CSS.
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PC World Placement

August 6th, 2010

On my placement this week I have been introduced to the retail sector at PC World. I get along with my colleagues very well which helps get through the day! Other duties have included:

  • Storing Point Of Sale Material in a logical and scientific manor to improve efficiently.
  • Stocking shelves in store and in the warehouse.
  • Counter-witnessing deliveries.
  • Helping order the televisions by price and size logic.
  • Checking and replacing incorrect price tickets.
  • Labelling laptop boxes with their product code, unique to DSGi, to allow the sales team to be more efficient in locating the customers chosen product.
  • Organising  the laptops by manufacturer and ensuring all labels are forward-facing.
  • Stocking and rotating the cables so similar purpose cables are together and not at opposite ends of the aisle.

Publish to Facebook from WordPress using Wordbooker

June 9th, 2010

I have installed Wordbooker on my WordPress blog to post to my Facebook wall when I make a new post.

Upon installing and activating the plugin, visit its settings page under Settings >> Wordbooker. Click the connect with Facebook button and allow the requested permissions. You will then be directed back to your blog administration panel where you are given a set of configuration options. The ‘Blog Level Customisation’ allows you to define the default settings for all users of your blog. The ‘User Level Customisation’ allows the logged-in user to customise their own settings.

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Open comment authors website link in a new window

June 8th, 2010

When a user posts a comment on your blog, they are given the option to have their name linked to their own website by supplying the URL when they post. To make these links open in a new window:

find in wp-includes/comment-template.php (~line 148):

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";

replace with:

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url' target='_blank'>$author</a>";

And that’s it. If you have difficulties implementing this, contact me for paid support.