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    Can you recommend a Payment Gateway?

    I've integrated most of the major UK ones at one time or another and continue to be most impressed with PayPoint (used to be SecPay).
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    Website attacked - Who's responsible?

    If this is SQL Injection then some code on your website is at fault. Are there any open source or other third party scripts on the site, and if so are they bang up to date (out of date WordPress, PHPbb etc. are often the culprits)? If you have third party code running make sure you know whose...
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    First Class Hosting required

    We use Memset (memset.com) and have done for years. Very impressive have both cloud and VPS, Windows or Linux.
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    Doctype advice

    The DOCTYPE just tells the browser what version of mark-up language you are using. If you don't use one at all then you leave it up to the browser to guess at what you want to do - it might guess something very strange! Modern browsers use something called 'doctype switching'. If you don't use a...
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    Browser compatibility for a website

    With regard to older browsers - IE6 and 7 - there is no reason your site should completely fail in those browsers but it is perfectly acceptable to give a simpler experience to users who have those browsers. Our methodology these days is to develop in a standards compliant browser (latest...
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    IE8

    We are finding that most stuff we build now, validated to W3 standards works as expected in latest versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE8. If you develop to standards IE8 is very good, if you don't validate your mark-up and CSS you are leaving it up to the browsers to try and figure out what...
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    Apple Accounting Software

    We use Xero (can't post a link but they are xero dot com!) which is online software, works beautifully on both the Mac and Linux and has more than halved the time I spend on the accounts! I'm not affiliated to them, just a really happy customer :) We've done a lot of stuff including...
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    Table columns

    The idea of absolute positioning is confusing to people. The key thing to remember is that things are not positioned from the top left of the browser window they are positioned inside the next parent element that has positioning set (absolute or relative). If no container is set with a position...
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    Building a store for a 9 year old?

    Shopify looks like a nice solution for those wanting to test the water. I can't post URLs but it is shopify dot com or just google shopify. I haven't used it myself and I'm not associated with the company, but I hear good things about Shopify and have bought via stores using it - seems pretty...
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    VAT Rules for downloadable software

    Hi - having a bit of a VAT headache here. My company (which usually supplies services only) is about to launch a downloadable software product. We are UK registered. My reading of the VAT rules for sale of software are as follows: 1. If our customer is in the UK we charge VAT as normal...
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