This is web-design for you the business entrepreneur. Whatever your plans vectorvend has built up a wealth of experience in graphics, web design and web solutions. Service is provided by David Golding, freelance web design and graphics based in the UK Stirlingshire Scotland.
Here's a quick list of areas covered by vectorvend:
The nuts and bolts of running a commercial website can be a minefield of choices. However a starting point can be to decide what type of shopping cart will suit your current and future needs
Types of shopping cart platforms and payment gateways offered by vectorvend
| Service type | Paypal™ | Google-checkout™ | Worldpay™ | Avactis™ | vCart™ |
| Thrid Party Cart with payment gateway | yes | yes | yes | - | - |
| Bespoke Cart with payment gateway | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Cart and Payments handled by your own site | - | - | - | - | yes |
| Downloadable goods using payment gateway | - | - | - | yes | yes |
For further information or to discuss your requirements please contact info@vectorvend.co.uk
Content management made simple
Out of a need to keep things simple and provide end users an easier method of managing their websites vectorvend has produced a content management system called vAdmin™
For further information or to discuss your requirements please contact info@vectorvend.co.uk
*This offer applies to your 1st year hosting and is open to new clients and existing customers when I'm building a brand new web site for you. However the offer excludes websites that are heavy weight by nature for example mp3 or video downloads and large image hosting.
The single biggest expense in web hosting is bandwidth, so why do we offer free hosting? For a couple of reasons and more:
First Unless you're expecting millions of visitors in your initial months most new websites can run happily on one of vectorvend's main accounts until your web site grows. During the first year we can then get a pretty good picture of where your hosting needs are heading.
Second I've hated seeing people being ripped off by bad hosting companies. Some of these include so called big names in hosting in the UK and Europe. When I say ripped off the've either missold something they really don't need or the hosting is not up to scratch and over priced for no reason. I've also seen numerous types of unfair stings in the tail if you happen to miss a hosting payment or domain name renewal.
Because it does cost vectorvend to host your site. Web hosting requires computing power regardless of where your are in the UK, Europe or the US. Even if you have little or no visitors those computers and network units need to be switched on and running 24/7. This is the case even with so called Eco Friendly or Green web hosting, a cost is involved.
That will depend on how big or small your website is and can be a complex figure to calculate in terms of weight in graphics/resources and the number of monthly visitors. A goal of vectorvend is to build sites that run efficiently so that in the long run savings can be made. The tables below will give you an idea of what it might cost to host your website in the UK**
| Hosting with fixed Bandwidth Allowance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Package Name | Bandwidth | Estimated number of visitors | Cost |
| vhosting0.5 | 0.5GB per month | 500 | £25.00 GBP per year |
| vhosting1.0 | 1GB per month | 1000 | £36.00 GBP per year |
| (This service is provided by digitalred.com and is called hosting100) | |||
| vhosting5.0 | 5GB per month | 5000 | £65.00 GBP per year |
| Hosting with flexible Bandwidth Allowance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Package Name | Bandwidth | Estimated number of visitors | Cost |
| vhosting5.0 +flexible | 5GB per month | 5000 + | £105.00 GBP per year |
| includes CDN (content delivery network) for improved speed globally | |||
| vhosting10 +flexible | 10GB per month | 10,000 + | £210.00 GBP per year |
| includes CDN (content delivery network) for improved speed globally | |||
** US and European hosting also available details on request.
06 Sept 2009
In Internet Explorer any server error that is shorter than 512 bytes will be replaced by IE with its own text. Therefore even if you have gone to great lengths to build your own user friendly error pages, it will be necessary to make those customized messages more than 512 characters long if you want them displayed by IE.
03 Sept 2009
"Security issues have been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a system that is running Microsoft Internet Explorer and gain control over it. You can help protect your system by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer."
This is a never ending cycle of interuptions to my workflow. Software packages increasingly call home for updates and when its 3 or 4 different apps at the same time wanting bandwidth and restarts I get annoyed. What we need on Windows is a unified area on the OS to manage updates, from whatever vendor, in a controlled manner so that workflow is respected.
24 June 2009
/*CSS attempt Object Oriented CSS Framework concept by http://wiki.github.com/stubbornella/oocss/template*/
.aligned_input label{ margin-top:2px; width: 8em; float: left; text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em; display: block; font-size:0.8em; }
.aligned_input input{ margin-top:2px; border:1px solid #666666; }
/* OOCSS grey */
.grey { color:#666666;}
/* OOCSS */
.panelbox { Border:1px solid #999999; padding:8px 0 0 0;}
/* OOCSS */
.width100 { width:100px }
.width400 { width:400px }
24 June 2009
'Your message /r/n' fails but using double quotes works "Your message /r/n"
16 June 2009
Nicole Sullivan outlines a new approach to writing CSS at Web Directions North 2009. She calls it Object Orientated CSS and it makes sense.
12 June 2009
Parallels Source Article here:http://kb.parallels.com/en/1134
login to Mysql:
# mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` mysql
For example, to allow access to database called 'data' for user 'allan' and remote IP 192.168.0.1 then type following commands at "mysql>" prompt:
mysql> GRANT ALL ON data.* TO allan@'192.168.0.1' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
mysql> REVOKE GRANT OPTION ON data.* FROM allan@'192.168.0.1';
8 June 2009
Using the curly brackets gives you the power to build or work on a variable name directly (ie the variable name not the contents of the variable)
Example php code:
$template_napkins='This is text all about napkins';
$cat='napkins';
// now build the variable name (note the use of the curly brackets) to point to a template
$t=${template_.$cat};
// $t now contains the CONTENT of the variable $template_napkins
echo $t;
//will output: This is text all about napkins
5 June 2009
At first I thought it was Java playing up in netbeans6.5 Previous versions weren't able to open files over a lan \\machinename\_htdocs\ unless the path was mapped as a network drive E:/_htdocs/
In the end the problem casing the slow down was temporarily solved by turning off my anti-virus
28 May 2009
If localhost XAMPP server on windows XP is running very slow (3-5 seconds or more) to load a page try the following:
In C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ edit the hosts file
change
127.0.0.1 localhost
to
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
(the # comments the line out)
20 May 2009
Deny an IP
#Deny an IP
deny from 134.181.72.95
Redirect contents of an entire directory
Can be used as a temporary low bandwidth fix, or simple manual CDN Content delivery 'network'.
# 302 Temporary
# 301 Permanent
# temporary redirect contents of an entire directory to another domain
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^exampledomain.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.exampledomain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^exampledir//?(.*)$ "http://www.anotherdomain.com/newdir/$1" [R=302,L]
5 May 2009
Instead of the default "My Computer" shortcut, you can change to your own shorcuts by editing the registry. Max of five shortcuts
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg3
"PlacesBar"
Place0 C:\backups
Place1 D:\folder
Place2 D:\folder2
Place3 E:\folder3
Place4 11 (note default is hexadecimal 11 for My Computer)
