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Editing and optimising images

By Dave | Published: January 28, 2009

I’m a website designer for holiday rental property owners, and one of the questions that crops up all the time is image size and quality. Whereas the majority of UK households are now on broadband, many around the world are not, and indeed, the definition of broadband is pretty loose. As I write, I’m on a [...]

New gite website and blog launched: Basse Copette

By Dave | Published: January 23, 2009

I’ve recently put the finishing touches to the design and build of a website and blog for a fellow LayMyHatter who owns and runs Basse Copette. Thomas knows a fair bit about Wordpress having been using it on Wordpress.com, but decided that he needed a professional website design & build with a luxury feel to [...]

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And I’m off…

By Dave | Published: January 21, 2009

Today I’m packing my bags and with wife and offspring in tow, am flying to South Africa for 10 weeks. One of the benefits of being a web designer is that you can generally do it from pretty much anywhere with an internet connection. This year we’re doing a house swap with a couple in [...]

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Orange Mist Random Wordpress theme for property rental websites

By Dave | Published: January 13, 2009

I get a lot of questions both on the site and in forums about Wordpress themes well suited to the property rental market, and I always struggle to recommend a theme which can work ‘out of the box’ for people with only a basic knowledge of Wordpress. Unless you know how to edit CSS, a [...]