Recent content by zone1creative

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    French Hosting Solutions

    We are already with OVH, however, the shared hosting performance not upto scratch for the software we are running. But OVH do not provide mid level VPS's and so dedicated servers are over kill for our requirements.
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    French Hosting Solutions

    Does anyone know of a good hosting company that provides hosting on a French IP address and also provides English support?
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    Shop By Filters, Lots of Pages and SEO

    In google webmaster tools you can goto the parameters settings and tell google what each GET variable is. ie, ?sort=asc You can tell google that sort is a sort function The other option is to add canonical tags so that each filter type points to one main category page. A last option could be...
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    Microdata

    With google now providing tools to test your pages for microdata for rich snippet results. Has anyone seen any real SEO benefits from adding the microdata to their site.
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    Designer Dog Coats

    Brighton would be quite popular. Dogs at school gates seem to by multiplying every month.
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    Anyone using GoCardless ?

    we use gocardless via kashflow.co.uk and it works well. Payments via DD get confirmed in kashflow and mark your invoices paid. Sometimes there is a lag in receiving a payment due to weekends. In general the payment arrives in your account 4-7days after the DD request date.
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    E-Commerce & SSL Certificate?

    If you are accepting credit card details on your site, then you do. Your payment provider or bank will usually also ask you for a server that passes all its security tests too. I know that with HSBC security metrics will check your site every 3 months and ask you to make server changes. so you...
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    Thought this was a doddle?

    Hi, I have read your description of requirements, but there is just not enough detail in what you are asking for. I understand that want your sites banners on other peoples sites and that you want to give the site owners displaying your banner 15%. But this is just not enough for a developer...
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    So... EROL have gone bust

    I have setup a forum on our webserver for EROL based discussions. Just to reiterate, I am in no way linked to Brightscape or Anya. But have put this forum together to allow EROL users to discuss their issues and come up with a way to resolve this through community discussion...
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    So... EROL have gone bust

    Hi, If EROL users need some sort of forum I can put one up on our server and provide a link to it. I deal with a number of EROL customers that are in the same situation as you. I also worked for EROL over 2 years ago and still have a good knowledge of its functionality.
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    csv upload to MySQL help please!

    I also recommend HiediSQL but your hosting company must allow access to your database outside localhost.
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    csv upload to MySQL help please!

    Hi Jeff, I would not waste time using MS excel to create CSV files. Download and install openoffice which is free. Then use the Calc spreadsheet application. Also do a search for CSVED. This is a nifty app that checks a CSV for errors, such as not the same number of fields in each row and if...
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    Looking For A Free Eshop Any Ideas

    Read this about feedback regarding internet retailer http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=144883 Hosted solutions like internet retailer are fine to try out. But if your business is going to be online only then I would not recommend this. The SEO is very limited and you...
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    internetretailer.biz - not finding it easy - advise please

    Not a good advert for free ecommerce. Do internet retailer not have free support to go with their free shopping cart? To help you, I recommend never copying and pasting from word or web pages to the cart. Always copy the text to notepad and then copy to the cart. Secondly looking and...
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    Looking For A Free Eshop Any Ideas

    Nothing is free. You can get free software such as open cart and os commerce to run your online store. But you will need technical knowledge and would need to pay for hosting. In most cases you will have to pay a monthly fee or start from £500 for a small store. try...